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On the EU Day against Impunity for Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes, Global Rights Compliance launches the ‘Basic Investigative Standards for Documenting International Crimes in Ukraine’ (BIS-Ukraine) - a unique toolkit aimed at supporting the ...

A group of Ukrainian judges is visiting the Netherlands, as part of an international project that assists the Ukrainian War Crimes Unit in Ukraine to investigate, prosecute and seek remedies for international crimes. The judges, hosted by the Asser Institute a...

The MATRA-Ukraine mid-term conference ‘Strengthening Ukraine’s national efforts to investigate, prosecute, adjudicate and report on international crimes’ was held on 14 November 2022 at Beeld & Geluid in The Hague and online. Read the full report of the co...

During the recent MATRA-Ukraine Conference organised by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut with Global Rights Compliance (GRC) on 14 November 2022, Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg from international justice podcast “Asymmetrical Haircuts” talked to Ukrainian...

We will be hosting our MATRA Mid-term conference on 14 November 2022 in The Hague. This event will be held in-person. To read more about the conference and register for the event, please go to this link. 

July marked the halfway point of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and Global Rights Compliance (GRC)’s partnered MATRA-Ukraine project ‘Strengthening Ukraine’s Capacity to Investigate and Prosecute International Crimes’, which is funded by the Netherlands Ministry o...

Between June and August 2022, GRC’s Ruby Mae Axelson participated as a trainer in five training sessions under the auspices of the MATRA-project on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) for Ukrainian CSOs organised jointly by Women’s Initiatives for Gender J...

On 24 February 2022, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would launch a “special military operation” in Ukraine. On the same day, missiles and airstrikes struck through Ukraine and were followed by a large ground invasion. In response, Ukrainian president Vol...

Over the course of two days (24 and 25 January), the MATRA-Ukraine project hosted its second online exchange meeting for Ukrainian investigators and prosecutors. The meeting brought them together with a range of international experts in remote interviews, vuln...