Human Rights Research League

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Research. Education. Advocacy. Development. (R.E.A.D.)

Mission statement

The Human Rights Research League (HRRL) is a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the United Nations (ECOSOC) aiming at protecting individuals by placing acts contrary to human rights and international humanitarian law, systemic grievances as well as humanitarian emergencies on the agenda. HRRL seeks to contribute to knowledge and research based public discussion and problem analysis without geographical, political, confessional or other limitations or alignments.

As our name suggests, we are an organization primarily focused on research from the basis of a strong academic foundation. However, we recognize that lasting impact and positive change also depend on connecting academics and practitioners, combining research on root causes of human rights challenges with implementation of projects and policies addressing those grievances. 

To this end, we are engaged in four focus areas: Research. Education. Advocacy. Development. (R.E.A.D.), all with a view to bridging the gap between academic and practical approaches to human rights, and between problem analysis and implementation of solutions.

 

News & reports

 

At the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Research League delivered an oral statement in connection with the Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Ukraine. In his intervention, HRRL Chairman Tom Syring emphasized inter alia the Russian Federation's display of total disregard for human life as demonstrated by Russia's systematic and widespread use of torture, including rape and other modes of sexual violence, and of enforced disappearances, against military personnel as well as civilians, both of which amounting to crimes against humanity. HRRL further pointed to reports of the Russian Federation's apparent policy of instructing their armed forces that no quarters will be given, a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime, punishable also under the Rome Statute of the ICC. For the full statement, please see the video of the Oral Statement on UN Web TV.

Human Rights Research League also intervened in connection with the Interactive Dialogue with the UN High Commisisoner for Human Rights and his oral update on Ukraine. We are particularly outraged by the treatment accorded to Ukrainian servicemen and -women hors de combat, POWs and retained medical personnel, who have been systematically and in a widespread manner subjected to torture, including sexual violence, by the Russian authorities. HRRL is further appalled by the Russian Federation's expansion of its activities of indoctrinating Ukrainian children in Russian occupied territory and enrolling them in military training for service to the Russian State. For the full statement, please see also here the video of the Oral Statement on UN Web TV.

Conferences & calls

At the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Research League delivered an oral statement in connection with the Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Ukraine. In his intervention, HRRL Chairman Tom Syring emphasized inter alia the Russian Federation's display of total disregard for human life as demonstrated by Russia's systematic and widespread use of torture, including rape and other modes of sexual violence, and of enforced disappearances, against military personnel as well as civilians, both of which amounting to crimes against humanity. HRRL further pointed to reports of the Russian Federation's apparent policy of instructing their armed forces that no quarters will be given, a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime, punishable also under the Rome Statute of the ICC. For the full statement, please see the video of the Oral Statement on UN Web TV.

Human Rights Research League also intervened in connection with the Interactive Dialogue with the UN High Commisisoner for Human Rights and his oral update on Ukraine. We are particularly outraged by the treatment accorded to Ukrainian servicemen and -women hors de combat, POWs and retained medical personnel, who have been systematically and in a widespread manner subjected to torture, including sexual violence, by the Russian authorities. HRRL is further appalled by the Russian Federation's expansion of its activities of indoctrinating Ukrainian children in Russian occupied territory and enrolling them in military training for service to the Russian State. For the full statement, please see also here the video of the Oral Statement on UN Web TV.

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