ANNUAL REPORT 2023 3.  WORK WITHIN STRATEGIC AREAS AND  HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVES 45 civic initiatives and organi- In April and October 2023, ‘Filtration and forced relo- sations focused on protecting the CCL team and partner cation: examining Russia‘s the rights of prisoners of organisations held a number violations of international law’ war and civilian victims of of side events at the Human and ‘Torture of civilian pris- enforced disappearances Dimension Conferences in oners of war and prisoners and arbitrary detention were Vienna and Warsaw. During of war after Russia‘s invasion formed amid the growing the side events, the follow- of Ukraine’. The events were problem of illegally impris- ing topics were presented: based on numerous viola- oned civilians and victims of ‘Forced displacement and tions of international laws by arbitrary detention. The CCL deportation of Ukrainian the Russian Federation, which took an active part in their civilians, including children, cover three legal dimensions: training and interaction. by the Russian Federation’, international human rights law, international criminal law, and international human- itarian law. These violations were reported by those who have been unlawfully impris- oned, tortured, and ill-treated in places of detention in the Russian Federation and 17