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A woman cries while being evacuated from her home on March 06, 2023 in Kupiansk, Ukraine. Volunteers from the European Traditions of Charity (ETOC) have been evacuating vulnerable civilians from Kupiansk due to Russian shelling of the town to the relatively safer regional capital of Kharkiv. © John Moore/Getty Images

Prosecuting Sexual Violence in Ukraine

“Every mistake can be fatal for the human psyche.”

14 Mar 23

An aerial view of artillery craters scarring the landscape next to a destroyed house on October 24, 2022 in Sulyhivka, Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine. © Carl Court/Getty Images

Environmental Damage as a War Crime

Despite widespread destruction, prosecuting Russia will come with many challenges.

21 Feb 23

Emergency workers search the remains of a residential building that was struck by a Russian missile on January 15, 2023 in Dnipro, Ukraine. The attack is the deadliest single incident since Russia started targeting cities far from front lines in Ukraine. © Spencer Platt/Getty Images

How Will US Support Justice for Ukraine?

Options “run the gamut” from financial backing to amending domestic legislation to facilitate prosecutions.

17 Jan 23

Supreme Court judge Serhii Pohribnyi. © The Press Office of the Supreme Court

Limiting Russia’s Judicial Immunity

Supreme Court judge explains how a Ukrainian legal decision could transform future mechanisms for Russian reparations.

15 Nov 22

Olena Vysotska, Ukraine's deputy minister of justice. © Courtesy of O. Vysotska

Ukraine Considers Alternatives to Jail for Minor Crimes

New legislation would expand the range of non-custodial available to courts.

8 Nov 22

Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya speaks during a United Nations General Assembly special session at the United Nations headquarters on October 10, 2022 in New York City. © Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Can Russia’s UN Veto be Removed?

Ukraine is exploring creative ways to deprive Russia of its power within the security council.

11 Oct 22

Ukrainian soldiers, prisoners-of-war are lined up before being forced by pro-Russian rebels to search through the wreckage of the destroyed Donetsk airport for weaponry and dead bodies on February 26, 2015 in Donetsk, Ukraine. © Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Ukraine: Justice for POWs

As evidence grows of the cruel treatment and extrajudicial execution of Ukrainian captives, legal and human rights bodies are building strategies for prosecution.

4 Oct 22

Rescue workers and forensic police exhume bodies from unidentified makeshift graves at the Pishanske cemetery on September 21, 2022 in Izium, Ukraine. © Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Investigating Izyum’s Mass Graves

Large teams of forensic experts work together with law enforcement officers and criminologists to collect evidence for future trials.

27 Sep 22

Rescue workers and forensic police exhume bodies from unidentified makeshift graves at the Pishanske cemetery on September 19, 2022 in Izium, Ukraine. The bodies will be examined by forensic officials for possible war crimes. Izium was recently liberated from Russian occupation after six months. Approximately 440 bodies are buried at the cemetery, so far 161 bodies have been exhumed, taken to the morgue in Kharkiv. © Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Universal Criminal Jurisdiction in Ukraine

Country’s legal community is putting public pressure on the prosecutor general, the president’s office and the government to incorporate principles.

20 Sep 22

In this still taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on May 20, 2022, a Russian serviceman frisks a Ukrainian soldier leaving the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. © Russian Defense Ministry

Russia Plans Show Trials for Ukrainian POWs

Processes deemed illegal as combatant immunity bars prosecution for mere participation in hostilities.

13 Sep 22

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