A difficult road to justice. The role of Ukrainian civil society in documenting the conflict in Eastern Ukraine Helsinki Foundation For Human Rights

This report focuses on the role of Ukrainian civil society organizations in documenting the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and provides an account of the NGO-documenters’ contribution to the pursuit of justice. Specifically, it investigates the connection between documentation and justice, looking at how documentation is produced and later used – either directly and indirectly – to achieve justice, understood as the restoration of rights of victims, as well as the prosecution of perpetrators of crimes. It aims to identify the structural and functional constraints involved in this process and to provide recommendations to the various stakeholders who are part of it.