Other resources

Useful links and other sources: 

Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group (ULAG), 'Needs Assessment of Ukraine’s Justice System: Delivering Meaningful Justice to the Victims and Survivors of the Armed Conflict' (June 2024) [English]

- Report based on ULAG's monitoring, analyzing, and evaluating the justice and accountability landscape in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine since 2014, assessing the needs and gaps of the Ukrainian domestic system.

Asymmetrical Haircuts, 'Episode 107 – Ukraine’s Justice System under Strain with Nadia Volkova', 19 September 2024 [English]

- Podcast addressing the challenges faced by the Ukrainian Legal System in prosecuting alleged thousands of war crimes, featuring Nadia Volkova, founder and director of the Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group – a Ukrainian NGO focused on Justice and Accountability in armed conflict contexts.

Ukrainian Bar Association, 'Report on the results of the project "The Trial Monitoring in War Crimes Cases" (December 2023) [English | Ukrainian]

Report analysing verdicts between February 2022 and October 2023 and hearings attended by court monitors in Ukraine in war crimes cases to assess compliance with international standards and provide recommendations.

Reports of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine (18 October 2022, 16 March 2023, 29 August 2023, 20 October 2023, 15 March 2024, 29 October 2024) [website in English, reports also available in Ukrainian]

Reports analysing all alleged violations and abuses of human rights, violations of international humanitarian law and related crimes in the context of the aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation.

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, ‘Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations’ (2022) [English]

- Protocol providing professional standards to be applied in the identification, collection, preservation, analysis and presentation of digital open source information and its use in international criminal and human rights investigations. 

International Criminal Court, ‘Statement of ICC Prosecutor, Karim A. A. Khan QC, on the Situation in Ukraine: “I have decided to proceed with opening an investigation"' (28 February 2022) [English

- Statement of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor declaring the opening of an investigation into the Situation in Ukraine.

Institute for International Criminal Investigations, ‘IICI Guidelines on Remote Interviewing’ (August 2021) [English]

- Set of guidelines for remote interviewing in investigations into international crimes or grave human rights violations taking place in resource-constrained, conflict-affected, or similarly challenging contexts.

International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor, 'Report on Preliminary Examination Activities 2020' (14 December 2020) - Ukraine (pp. 68-72) [English

- Report by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) including the procedural history, preliminary jurisdictional issues, contextual background, subject-matter jurisdiction, admissibility, OTP activities and next steps concerning the concluded preliminary examination of the situation in Ukraine opened on 25 April 2014.

 

- Publication of the Human Rights Council reporting on the violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law committed by the Russian Federation and Ukraine in the ongoing conflict.