The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG) is one of the oldest and most active Ukrainian human rights organizations. As a legal entity, it was established in 1992, but it has been working as a human rights protection group in the Ukrainian SSR since 1988 under the Society " Memorial ". It was the first official human rights organization in the former USSR . Many members of the organization took part in a human rights movement of the 1960s – 1980s.
5-805: The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group was a member of the Coalition "Justice for Peace in Donbas" . Today it is one of the trustees of the Tribunal for Putin coalition, which has recorded over 56,000 war crimes committed on Ukrainian territory since 24 February 2022 by Russia's armed forces. EU/US Democracy and Civil Society Award (1998) Association of Ukrainian Monitors on Human Rights Conduct in Law Enforcement Coalition %22Justice for Peace at Donbas%22 Coalition "Justice for Peace in Donbas" ( Ukrainian : Справедливість заради миру на Донбасі )
10-687: A military confrontation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, "Surviving Hell: The testimony of victims on illegal detention in Donbas". At the moment, organisations of the Coalition continue to document cases of detention of people in illegal detention facilities on the territories controlled by the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic , as well as by Ukrainian volunteer battalions and Armed Forces of Ukraine . The Coalition also studies
15-496: Is an informal alliance of 17 Ukrainian human rights organisations and initiatives. Members of the Coalition have teamed up to document human rights violations that occurred during the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine . The Coalition focuses on gathering information about the most serious human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law in the context of the armed conflict in Donbas . The member organisations of
20-681: The Coalition maintain and develop common Database which contains information on human rights violations. Thus, the documentation of violations becomes more efficient. Most members of the Coalition are representatives of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions Organisations that are part of the Coalition are: Coalition partners are the UN Development Program in Ukraine and the International Renaissance Foundation. The alliance
25-492: Was founded in 2014. One of the first joint initiatives of members of the Coalition was a project supported by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Warsaw), in which member organisations collected evidence of more than 150 people who had been in illegal places of detention under the control of " DNR " and "LNR" . In 2015, the Coalition published a report based on interviews with people who were held in prisons during
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