Health and justice for torture survivors in Ukraine 

Ambassador Mikkelsen and the Embassy team participated in the online/offline conference “Health and justice for torture survivors in Ukraine” that took place on November 2nd, 2021 in Kyiv, as part of the EU-funded project “Fighting torture and CIDTP in Ukraine: an integrated and intersectoral approach”. 

The conference was co-organized by DIGNITY, the Danish Institute against torture. For decades DIGNITY has been a leading civil society force in the global fight against torture, working in 25 countries worldwide in close partnerships with human rights defenders, civil society organizations and, where possible, local authorities. The conference objectives included sharing the results of this project, as well as engaging state, civil society and expert stakeholders in a professional discussion on prospects for future action towards torture prevention and rehabilitation of torture survivors in Ukraine.

 

In his opening remarks, Ambassador Mikkelsen stated: “The theme of your conference does however have a lot to do with Danish-Ukrainian relations. Because the most important component of the Danish-Ukrainian relationship is that we share the same fundamental values: freedom, liberty, democracy and human rights.  They form the very bedrock of our societies. Those values were the values that Ukrainians fought for in 2014 during the revolution of dignity”.