like sandra, my pitchbook, human rights floor and the head of the nonprofit organizations center for civil liberties. thank you very much for talking with us. thank you. and for more information on this year's right livelihood award and all the orient, you can go to our website d, w dot com. now let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. you as president, vice president cola harris visited the demilitarized zone that divides the korean peninsula where she said, washington will use its full range of military capabilities to defend south korea. harris arrived in sol a day after jonya and conducted more ballistic missile tests provocation. she said were meant to destabilize the region. a court in myanmar has sentenced austin, leader on so she to 3 more years in jail for violating a secrets law. it's the latest and string of convictions against her since the military sees power last year. so she is economics, advisor, australian sean, turn. all also received 3 years in prison. we had to my german car maker. portia has made its debut, had the frankfurt stock e

that shook as one of ukraine's most prominent human rights defenders and she chairs the center for civil liberties. jurors said both. she says she had been instrumental in, quote, building, sustainable democratic institutions and ukraine modeling. a path to international accountability for war crimes. it's the 1st time the right livelihood award has gone to someone from ukraine. earlier, i spoke to alexander murphy choke about her recent investigation into mass graves uncovered in it c. m. city that was occupied by russian forces. i asked her if she was surprised by what she found. unfortunately, we have no surprise about to be still going to be indifferent and to get used to such a level of atrocities. we observe the same, which we see, for example, in april, in key region, when the russian girls where retreated from there. and we also found mars race and q. do you think that war crimes and human rights abuses are being perpetrated systematically as a weapon of war in ukraine? where is the 7 months of rush and large scale aggression? only all were joined, initiates, you know, would you have been

crimes themselves oleksandra romantsova human rights activist executive director of the center for civil liberties oleksandr congratulations well, let's start with the weight of this decision. you have a publication about this on your website on september 15. what weight is the most important thing in this decision oleksandr can you hear us that yes yes please or in this decision that we finally have an international organization that directly supports the creation of a separate crime because, unfortunately, international criminal cases or the international court of justice, the un does not close this crime itself, which is less frightening than us, it is actually the beginning of the feedback of the initiative of a political solution, both by putin and the political leadership of the russian federation, so how important is it that it is already headed by the council of europe, the first the organization that initially said such a resolution of the parliamentary council of europe and now the committee on foreign affairs, which is directly the main political body of the council of europe support th

number our hotline, of course + 38 044 328 48, this is the euromaidan sos platform from the center for civil liberties, that is, you can use this number to contact people , so let's repeat it again + 38 044 328 48 , you can use this number to contact people who are relatives or their relatives were captured by a russian , yes, but were actually kidnapped, or does this also apply to people who simply do not know about the fate of their loved ones, if they can also contact you, they can also contact us, and we have certain instructions for such families as well we her already developed based on our experience, which we have been gaining since 2014, and even more so since february 24, 2022. and are there cases when people were kidnapped, but the russians returned them, let them go , released, and there are, uh, cases when uh, people were exchanged and there is a release of civilian hostages and they are recorded now. we cannot disclose these cases at the moment because they are being investigated and evidence is being provided to the international criminal court and the international authority. russians

oleksandra oleksandra romantsova human rights defender and executive director of the center for civil liberties was with us by the way er, i remembered when you talk about these british people who were forced to get up in the morning, these guards of russian prisons forced them to sing the national anthem of russia, i remembered that once upon a time when they worked as journalists in the fields, they wrote interviews with the last living in he survived the nazi concentration camp, he survived, went through this concentration camp, returned home alone from zhytomyr, he is a pole by origin. well, when he told me that his biggest scary dream was that he dreamed that he was holding a loaf of bread in his hands, and he was terribly not i finished eating there in that concentration camp, people were tormented by terrible hunger, and a nazi came and beat an iron and into such a sleeper and this terrible sound just woke everyone up and he was already under 90, and he continued to dream that someone was beating him -he was covered with iron and this meant that someone would take this bread from him and

general for human rights and ms. alexandra drake, coordinator for international cooperation center for civil liberties. it is so decided the security council will now begin its consideration of item 2 of the agenda, and i was, i know, give the floor to miss version me to college president. as we are, mr. president, as we are painfully aware, the war in ukraine continues to rage. since i brief his council and 24 august, because of the fighting at least 104 civilians, including 10 children, have died. and at least 253 civilians, including 25 children, have been injured according to the office of the high commissioner for human rights . this brings the total number to 13917 civilian casualties. 5718 killed, including 370 children and 8199 injured, including 635 children. these are only verified figures and the actual numbers are likely significantly higher. the war has also continued to drive large scale displacement over 6900000 people are internally displaced, a jump of 330000. since my last briefing, most of the newly displaced are coming from eastern and southern ukraine. the current number of cleani

here are the winners. ukrainian, alexandra murphy, chalk, and the center for civil liberties are being honored for documenting war crimes and human rights violations. according to the jury, their work is instrumental for building sustainable democratic institutions in ukraine, from somalia, mother, and daughter ju oh, fine tune at none. and it was a man of being honored for promoting peace and demilitarization and human rights in somalia, in the face of terrorism. and gender based violence. then there's the africa institute for energy governance in uganda for its opposition to projects that seek to exploit. uganda is oil reserves. and the 2nd the solar network in venezuela that provides affordable goods and services to more than 100000 and families. it's being on it for establishing an equitable alternative to profit driven economies. the laureates will receive the awards during a ceremony on the 30th of november in stock. let's take a look now at some other stories making use from around the world. us vice president. pamela harris has held bilateral talks with south korea's president,

the ukraine with us from kiev. alexandra might be joke, executive director for ukraine center for civil liberties in car. keep maria deva security analyst and research director for the european expert association and john pitts on check ceo of the human rights center as domino. and as always, you can join this conversation with your questions and comments right here in our live youtube chat. i want to start with the basics. let's start where you are maria and car. here. what is, what is it like on the ground there? i mean, you heard, you know, what, what, what, what the president of ukraine had to say. what is, what is one of the people have ukraine feeling that where you are i think excellent situation in harkey is very important on the the, the other steps of put in russia. and because in the after very successful ukraine and counter offensive in the almost old territory of parking region was liberated and it was on the russian occupation for more than 6 months. and with the defeat and with the russian troops lean of the harkey region, i have seen it myself like the abandon bad sense of militar

defender, executive director, should join we are waiting for oleksandr romantsov of the center for civil libertiesormation about yehorovych, what is happening there that aid to ukraine makes it difficult to achieve the un's sustainable development goals, he said that russia's war in ukraine burdens europe's obligations regarding international aid and climate measures . -th year reports the fine shell times this is the most difficult set of challenges

and will continue this topic with volodymyr yavor human rights defender and expert of the center for civil libertiesymyr. congratulations on the broadcast of the marathon and glory to ukraine. good evening. well, one of the tasks of this register, which should be operational at the end of october or by the end of october, is to prevent the illegal circulation of weapons. the topic is relevant for us . what do you think ? how it can work or can't work, your opinion, we want to hear the problem is that today the ministry of internal affairs does not have a complete register, that is, about this register working, some data must be entered there, and the ministry of internal affairs in fact, there is no list with whom they issued weapons to whom in general in this country, because the procedures by which weapons are issued are quite different, they are quite chaotic, because there are award weapons, they are issued in connection with the occupation of a certain position, weapons are issued according to a certain service, they are issued weapons are just citizens, weapons are issued and there is no order

problems with the connection, the human rights activist, the executive director of the center for civil libertiesout civil liberties or the lack of them for russians , now we say finish, please, yes, i wanted to say that once again uh, this is uh, this is impossible if society itself does not support the principles and values ​​of democracy, and democracy says that citizens are responsible for their state, and if the state starts a war on their behalf or commits its own violation of human rights, then responsibility citizens in ukraine bear it, we understand it well and every citizen now bears his share of responsibility, protects his state, and in the russian federation, as a result, psychologists will study this, of course, for another century, probably, but he refuses this responsibility. and when they even well, they would like to ask for the help of some european institutions, then the states can not come to russia and create a fair court or a democratic society there, this can only be done by the society of the russian federation itself, so well, let's hope that if ever the population of th

thank you oleksandra matviychuk, head of the center for civil liberties, we talked about the russian mobilization in the annexed crimea, and i will remind you that on the same day that russia announced the mobilization, there was a large exchange of prisoners, the largest since the beginning of the war. ukraine freed 215 people from russian captivity, including the defenders of mariupol, the commanders of the azov regiment, russia received medvedchuk and 55 of its own among the soldiers freed by ukraine, the majority were prisoners from azov, which the russians captured in may, military national guardsmen, border guards , sbu employees and, as the intelligence chief told kyrylo bohdanov, most of the soldiers were subjected to torture, they were received in bad conditions and, just as the representatives of the ukrainian authorities said, the exchange took place simultaneously in four countries : ukraine, poland, saudi arabia, turkey , the dismissal of the command, they were once in ankara, there they will stay for a certain period of time in a private house in comfort, as reported by

stricter control mechanism, your opinion volodymyr yavorskyi human rights defender - expert center for civil liberties , because it should be noted that i am told here that the deputy minister of internal affairs, ihor bondarenko, who joined us, disagrees with you , but he also has the right to one's position and i am grateful that we heard two sides and now we will look at this whole story from the point of view of the users of weapons which weapons are already in hand, which are official, which are the people do they use it legally or do they have it legally uh, let's add to the conversation from sagittarius, the instructor of the krav-mage federation of ukraine, yury minkin. i hope that i said the name of the boyan federation correctly, and it is not directly related to practice. i will tell you honestly. tell me, please. we will focus now on the register and i immediately want to emphasize this, how is the process of registration of weapons registration going on from the practical point of view of you as a person who is involved in this and whether you think it will get better or worse or nothing

. >> and we're joined now by the leader of the center for civil liberties in ukraine, and she's speaking with us from kyiv. thanks so much for being here with us. the details as we just heard there are still emerging, but from what we've seen so far points to potentially more horrors from this war. >> russia with civilians in occupied territories. we see the same pattern in other regions where russians were, and now we're documenting the same war crimes on this territories. in izium six torture chambers were found. >> yeah, it's just really sad to see this. i mean, one image was particularly haunting, a body wearing a bracelet with the colors of the ukrainian flag. now, we've chosen not to show this picture. it is very disturbing, but i know for you, for other ukrainians it was particularly poignant. >> yes. and i want to say that it doesn't matter what color it is because like each people who love their country can feel the same. when you will be killed only because you love your country. >> now, we don't know exactly what happened here. we know that the u.n. will investigate. do you ha

. >> center for civil liberties. the security council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. i now give the floors to --. >> mr. president, as we are aware, the war in ukraine continues to rage. because of the fighting at least 104 civilians, including 10 children have died. at least -- civilians, including 25 children have been injured according to the office of the high court for --. 5007 hundred 18 killed, including 370 in children and 8199 injured, including 635 children. these are only verified figures and the actual numbers are likely significantly higher. over 6.9 million people are displaced. a jump of 330 thousand since my last briefing. most of the newly displaced are coming from eastern and southern ukraine. the current number of ukrainian refugees recorded across europe have surpassed 7 million. up from 6.2 million just a week ago. women who constitute half these refugees continue to face significantly increased security risks in cute -- including trafficking and abuse. thousands of p

assistant secretary general for human rights and the coordinator for international cooperation, center for civil liberties. it is certified. the security council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. i now give the floor to ms. dicarlo. >> mr. president, as we are painfully aware, the war in ukraine continues to rage. since i breach this council on 24 august, because of the fighting, at least 104 civilians including ten children have died, and at least 253 civilians, including 25st children, have been injured according to the office of the high commissioner for human rights. this brings the total number to 13,917 civilian casualties, 5007 of 18 killed, including 372 children and 8199 injured, including 635 children. on the actual numbers are likely significantly higher. the war has also continued to drive a larger scale displacement. over 6.9 million people are internally displaced, a jump of 330,000 since my last refrain. most of the newly displaced are coming from eastern and southern ukraine. the current number of ukrainian refugees recorded across europe have surpassed 7 million.

human rights lawyer oleksandra matviichuk, the head of the non—profit organization of the center for civil libertiesntify all the people who have been killed and to understand the reason of each death. and in order to achieve this goal, using different methods, forensic expertise, testimonies of people who witnessed this horror. also, some bodies have traces of tortures, like some bodies have their hands tied under their backs or some broken bodies. everything will be used in order to understand the truth. how do you decide whether a war crime has been committed, to make it worth trying to prosecute? now ukraine is faced with an enormous amount of crimes committed after the large—scale russian invasion, only have initiated the tribunal of documented 18,000 episodes of war crimes across ukraine. and the main obstacles is that it is a huge burden on the international system and it is impossible to effectively investigate each criminal proceeding during the war. the office of general prosecutors at the current moment opened 35,000 investigations. 35,000? then how do you decide which crimes to prosecute

center. somber in occupies said that it's rational. and this are not just a single cases. the sensor for civil liberties alone, just one human rights organization has already received information about at least 600 of such cases, often from relatives of the ukrainians who are being good thing. it's a systematic and organized activity. moreover, based on the information collected by the sensor for civil liberties during the previous 8 years, this filtration practices had not started with the full scale invasion of ukraine in february this year. but instead of russia been practicing it's an occupied territory since the 1st snow military invasion in ukraine in 2014, but don't scale this expedient for all temporary occupied territories of ukraine currency to make the dozens of 1300000 of ukrainians. i kept infiltration. camps or detection census on saturdays occupied by russia or russia so which has developed into an organized and branch system of facilities. quite expensive, recovered in the recent report of conflicts observed by 30, which going to fight and in many instances, where did that so that basica

civil liberties holding a separate 171 million in march to help unaccompanied minors avoid deportation. when asked about their grant the center says this. due process liberty, equal protection under the law forpeople, citizen and immigrant alike are among the most important values of the american constitution. for context last month there were 300,000 migrant encounters at the border in august, over 2 million this fiscal year alone but that doesn't count the got aways. i witnessed this firsthand a few weeks ago in arizona. the footage you are seeing here happened 30 feet from where we are standing based on migrant after migrant hopped the wall, some ran scared but some walked away. the border patrol didn't do anything, you see the car. a lot of the frustration, the latest irrelevant the message has become we got an open border and we will pay for your legal defense so the fallout from this goes beyond border security, border town citing crime concerns but the sheriff's simply don't have resources to monitor the crossings and drug trade. stuart: we invite them in, don't stop them at the border, they get in and hire lawyers to stop in getting out. this is taxpayer money to boot. it is a great

center and resident of district 9. we oppose this policy that will grant access to private live monitor thanksgiving is a civil liberty disaster for san francisco to engage in breech individual privacy is a shame. they cannot be trusted have access to the cameras and has a record of abuse and discrimination from illegal black life matter activist and sexual assault ciphers. handing this over to them will make us less safe. sfpd claim today empowers san francisco to help stop or solve criminal days. san francisco residents and business owners who [inaudible] footage and information with sfpd is already do so this . is about expanding police access to private technology and also. >> speak time -- >> thank you. can we have our next caller? >> good morning this is jennifer joans. i'm calling to urge rowels committee to amend this ordinance. or to lay the committee vote on the policy to allow time to vet the potential public safety and civil learnt's impact and ensour arc sugar efficacy of the program. the policy provides [inaudible] and would be a dangerous precedent to gift police powers. without prune crime reduction benefit. the ma