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Since the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, it has become clear that Russian and pro-Russian forces have been committing widespread conflict-related sexual violence. Over the past year, our Global Initiative for Justice, Truth & Reconciliation team has worked with organizations on the ground in Ukraine to investigate and document these crimes.
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Statement on the Liquidation of International Memorial March 1, 2022 The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) condemns, in the strongest terms possible, the…
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On February 24, 2022, Ukrainian civilians awoke to the sounds of shelling and explosions following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order of an invasion of the…
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Despite acknowledging Georgia’s independence a year prior, in 1921 Russian forces overtook the country, declaring it a Soviet Socialist Republic. In subsequent decades, repression of…
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In 1995, in the Perm region of the Russian Federation, a unique memorial museum of the history of political repression was created in the former…
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Responding to social upheavals and ongoing human rights abuses in “real time” is a challenging but critical component of what Sites of Conscience do. The Maidan…
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Founded in 2009, Gulag.cz (Czech Republic) shares and circulates information about the Soviet gulag and its connection to the totalitarian regime in the USSR more generally….
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