Nelia Checheta served the state for decades — first with the Soviet military in Turkmenistan and later in Ukraine's Emergency Service — earning official honors along the way. At 62, her story ...

I do not believe that Russia’s prisons differ in any way from Belarus’s prisons. They are the same regimes, with hatred toward people. The only difference is that in Belarus Belarusians are imprisoned ...

Some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians are in Russian prisons and rights activists say more than 2,000 are female. Some of the women who have managed to get out jail are now speaking out about what they ...

Hundreds of Ukrainian women and girls have reported sexual violence by Russian troops during the four-year war in Ukraine.

Iryna Danylovych has lost the hearing in one ear and suffers from constant headaches due to denial of adequate medical care. Her family says that she is under intense psychological pressure and that ...