Recovery Must Include Everyone: Over 100 Signatures Collected for the Statement of Human Rights Organisations on the Rights of People in the TOT

July 9, 2025

For a week, national and international humanitarian and human rights organisations have been collecting signatures in support of their Unlocking the Potential for Recovery by Guaranteeing the Rights and Inclusion of Ukrainians from the Temporarily Occupied Territories Statement. On the last day of the collection, the number of signatures under the Statement reached over 100.

They had called for joining the Statement, which addressed international donors and the government of Ukraine and recommends to:

  • integrate the needs of TOT residents into all recovery directions;
  • prioritise funding for documenting violations, establishing transitional justice mechanisms, and developing reintegration services and safe evacuation routes for Ukrainians in the TOT;
  • promote the inclusion of both property and non-property losses and damage caused by human rights violations since 2014 in international mechanisms for compensation;
  • develop and implement a national system for collecting, analysing and monitoring data on human rights violations.

"No roadmap for recovery can be implemented without a clear commitment to ensure the rights, needs, and future of every citizen of Ukraine, no matter where they are today," the Statement reads.

The full text of the Statement is available here.

STATEMENT of National and International, Humanitarian and Human Rights Organisations

Sign the statement by following the link to the signature form.

The statement was supported by the following organisations:

Right to Protection, Charitable Foundation

Donbas SOS, Non-Governmental Organisation

Human Rights Centre ZMINA

Stabilization Support Services, Charitable Foundation

GROUP OF INFLUENCE, Civil Holding

Crimean Human Rights Group

CrimeaSOS, Non-Governmental Organisation

EAST SOS, Charitable Foundation

So far, the Statement has also collected the following signatures:

Women's hearts of Zarichny NGO

Osnovy Svidomosti NGO

Helping to Leave

Rokada CF

Eastern Variant NGO

Social Action Centre NGO

Ukrainian Volunteer Service NGO

Transcarpathia-Donbas NGO

Equilibrium NGO

Theatre for Change NGO

Crimean Process NGO

ALLIANCE.GLOBAL Public Organization

IDP Council under the Lviv Regional Military Administration

IDP Council under the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration

Agency for Recovery and Development NGO

Legal Development Network

Chatham House

Youth EAST NGO

Alliance of Ukrainian Organizations (Germany)

Girls NGO

Drohobych Creative Hub for Internally Displaced Persons NGO

The Power of Human Hearts ICF

HPLGBT

Will, Victory, Unification of Ukraine NGO

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR)

Unity of Virtue NGO

Women's Anti-corruption Movement NGO

PAH

Mission Kharkiv

Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group

Information and Analytical Centre Khmelnytskyi Initiatives

Human Rights House Crimea

Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights

Center for Civic Education "Almenda" NGO

Eastern Variant NGO

Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv

Bureau of Social and Political Developments

Foundation for the Support of Fundamental Research NGO

Kharkiv Institute for Social Research (KhISR)

Relief Coordination Centre CO

Cherkasy human rights center

Coalition “On the contact line" Public Union

Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU)

Libraries without borders

Chiricli International Roma Women’s Fund

Ukrainisn Foundation for Public Health ICF

Future CF

Centre of Gender Culture NGO

The Branch of Norwegian People's Aid

HIAS Ukraine

Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation

Netherlands Helsinki Committee

Oxfam 

NESEHNUTÍ (Independent Social Ecological Movement), Czechia

Nonviolent Peaceforce

Culture of Democracy NGO

Positive Women. Odesa CF

Project HOPE

Agency for Sustainable Development of the City NGO

Johanniter

 Zhiva-YA NGO

Bilozerka center for regional development NGO

Prisma Ukraїna research programme (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)

We Are from Ukraine NGO

Dobrobud 2022 CF

Odesa WOW NGO

Realis CF

ZDOROVI National Agency

Women’s Center "Support Protection and Care" NGO 

 Plіch-o-Plіch NGO

Team4UA CF

The Tenth of April NGO

ActionAid Eastern Europe

Center of Social Partnership "Perspective" NGO

Opos protect and order servis company

Volyn Institute of Law NGO

Center for Civic Initiatives CF

AREAC NGO

Agency for Economic Development NGO

Non-Governmental Organization "LAMPA"

Association of Ukrainian civic initiatives

NGO ‘Camellia’

The Reckoning Project

NGO «Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin»