Abstract

TREJOS-MATEUS, Francisco Daniel  and  HERRERA-KIT, Patricia. Annexations and Human Rights: An Analysis of the Agency of Transnational Advocacy Networks in Crimea. Desafíos [online]. 2023, vol.35, n.spe, e6.  Epub Mar 21, 2024. ISSN 0124-4035.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.13187.

Little has been written about human rights guarantees in Crimea, a territory annexed by Russia since 2014. Furthermore, approaches to the transnational networks that press Russia's obligations compliance towards the inhabitants of the peninsula are precarious. This article analyzes the agency of transnational advocacy networks regarding human rights violations in Crimea, between March 2014 and November 2021, as a precedent to the new phase of annexations in Ukraine in February 2022. Using notions from international norms, civil and political rights, and transnational networks, and based on primary and secondary sources, we describe notions of human rights in Ukraine and analyze the achievements of these transnational networks. The article shows that there is a limited institutionalization of the kind of environment that can foster the consolidation of human rights advocacy organizations in Ukraine, that agents within the network have very low coordination levels and that there have been very few changes in Russia's oppressive behavior.

Keywords : Intergovernmental organization; non-governmental organization; human rights violation; local networks; Ukraine.

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