Tetiana Pechonchyk joins council on Crimea liberation: Zelenskyy signs decree
Head of Human Rights Centre ZMINA Tetiana Pechonchyk joined the Advisory Council on De-occupation and Reintegration of Crimea. Yesterday, May 18, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the corresponding decree on the establishment of the Council.
Tetiana Pechonchyk The Advisory Council membership also includes Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in Crimea Tamila Tasheva, Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies Oleksandr Bohomolov, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Development of Education, Science and Technology – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, and others.
Apart from Tetiana Pechonchyk, the civil society sector in the Council is represented by expert of the Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group Darya Svyrydova, Head of the Crimean Human Rights Group Olha Skrypnyk, Vice President of the U.S. Institute of Peace for Russia and Europe William Taylor, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Refat Chubarov, First Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Nariman Dzhelyal, who is currently a political prisoner, and Chairman of the Union of Lithuanian Tatar Community Adas Jakubauskas.
After Russia occupied Crimea, Human Rights Centre ZMINA headed by Tetiana Pechonchyk has been documenting human rights violations, attacks on journalists, persecution of human rights defenders, and politically motivated trials on the peninsula. Together with partners at the national level, the organization is engaged in the promotion of legal acts aimed at protecting the rights of victims of Russian aggression. As a reaction to the international isolation of Crimea and the lack of access of international organizations to the occupied peninsula, the international human rights mission of the Human Rights Houses of Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine was held in autumn 2018 – the only such mission that was able to gain access to Crimea, collect, and document data from primary sources in recent years. In addition, ZMINA works in the area of international advocacy regarding the human rights situation in Crimea, in particular, informs international organizations about human rights violations in Crimea, organizes advocacy trips to the UN, OSCE, the Council of Europe, prepares analyses and alternative reports for international organizations. In 2017-2022, the organization achieved amendments made to the resolutions of the UN General Assembly regarding the human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
