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 57th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Research League delivered oral statements on Ukraine in connection with the Interactive Diaogue with the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Ukraine, as well as the Interactive Dialogue with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In intervening during the Interactive Dialogue with the COI, HRRL Chairman Tom Syring pointed inter alia to the human toll of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and underlined that in the face of the enormousness of the COI's task of documenting all violations of human righst and humanitarian law, the Council needs to provide the COI with adequate resources. For the full statement, please see the video of the Oral Statement on UN Web TV. In HRRL's second intervention, Viktoriia Tsymbaliuk underlined that 90% of the released Ukrainian POWs and civilians held by Russia provided information regarding the use of physical and psychological torture on them, and she implored the High Commissioner and state representattives to "take all possible steps to assure the human rights of the citizens of Ukraine and consider it your personal duty and national obligation to human rights protection". For the full statement, please see the video of the Oral Statement on UN Web TV. 

 

Human Righst Research League also submitted a Written Statement on 'War Crimes against Civilians and Prisoners of War in the Russian Federation's War of Aggression against Ukraine' (UN doc. A/HRC/57/NGO/319) to the United Nations General Assembly.

 

 

Conferences & calls

At the 57th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Research League delivered oral statements on Ukraine in connection with the Interactive Diaogue with the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Ukraine, as well as the Interactive Dialogue with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In intervening during the Interactive Dialogue with the COI, HRRL Chairman Tom Syring pointed inter alia to the human toll of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and underlined that in the face of the enormousness of the COI's task of documenting all violations of human righst and humanitarian law, the Council needs to provide the COI with adequate resources. For the full statement, please see the video of the Oral Statement on UN Web TV. In HRRL's second intervention, Viktoriia Tsymbaliuk underlined that 90% of the released Ukrainian POWs and civilians held by Russia provided information regarding the use of physical and psychological torture on them, and she implored the High Commissioner and state representattives to "take all possible steps to assure the human rights of the citizens of Ukraine and consider it your personal duty and national obligation to human rights protection". For the full statement, please see the video of the Oral Statement on UN Web TV. 

 

Human Righst Research League also submitted a Written Statement on 'War Crimes against Civilians and Prisoners of War in the Russian Federation's War of Aggression against Ukraine' (UN doc. A/HRC/57/NGO/319) to the United Nations General Assembly.

 

 

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