Revealed: The Russian commander wanted by Ukraine over Bucha massacres Over 400 bodies were recovered after Russia carried out atrocities in the town of Bucha in 2022 The Independent UK · Nov 20, 2025
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2025
Rights group says global brands are at risk of links to forced labor in China's minerals industry An international rights group says several global brands are among dozens of companies at risk of using forced labor through their Chinese supply chains The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2025
Russian and Belarusian Olympic athletes accused of supporting war in Ukraine A human rights law firm has accused the International Olympic Committee of negligence after releasing a dossier of 17 athletes due to compete at Paris The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2024
Russia accused of ‘deliberate’ starvation tactics in Mariupol in submission to ICC Lawyers say strategy of denying food and services to people in Ukrainian city during siege could amount to war crime The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2024
Putin could face new war crime case as evidence suggests starvation of Ukraine was pre-planned Purchases by Russian defence contractor suggest Moscow was planning to steal vast quantities of Ukrainian grain months before troops ever crossed the border The Independent UK · Nov 16, 2023
UN set to decide on Russia’s Human Rights Council membership as Putin ‘uses Ukrainian grain to buy votes’ Bringing Russia back onto the UN’s top human rights body will ‘signify a dangerous global drift into untrammelled violence against most vulnerable and innocent’, experts warn The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2023
Inside Russia’s torture chambers as investigators warn Kherson cells ‘tip of iceberg’ Similarities in accounts from different Ukrainian regions ‘expose deeper concerns that Russia is using torture as a strategy’, UN special rapporteur tells The Independent The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2023
Russian guards ‘using torture and genital electrocution on Ukrainian prisoners’ – investigators One victim ‘made to witness another detainee raped with inanimate object wrapped in condom’ says Mobile Justice Team study The Independent UK · Aug 3, 2023
Russian guards ‘using torture and genital electrocution on Ukrainian prisoners’ – investigators One victim ‘made to witness another detainee raped with inanimate object wrapped in condom’ says Mobile Justice Team study The Independent UK · Aug 2, 2023
‘Evocative of genocide’: Ukrainians held by Russians allege torture Legal experts say half of those detained in Kherson were subject to sexual violence, beatings and other abuse. Al Jazeera · Aug 2, 2023
British-led unit to hunt Russian soldiers suspected of rape and attacks in Ukraine The Sexual Violence Mobile Justice Team will train local detectives and help hunt for sex attackers among the Russian military, many still in Ukraine Daily Mirror · Dec 15, 2022
International legal experts assist Ukraine in sexual violence investigation An international team of legal advisers has been working with local prosecutors in Ukraine's recaptured city of Kherson in recent days as they began gathering evidence of alleged sexual crimes by Russian forces as part of a full-scale investigation. Reuters · Dec 11, 2022
Russia could be guilty of starvation crimes in Ukraine. We must act The absence, to date, of mass death from hunger doesn’t mean that Russian forces are innocent of the war crime of starvation The Guardian - US · Mar 29, 2022