Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia - From Field Research To Action

Denis Shedov is one of the researchers on the Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia (HuRiEE) project. This ERC (UKRI) funded project breaks new ground in studying the unprecedented human rights mobilisation in five countries of Eastern Europe – Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and Russia – whose citizens until recently brought more than fifty per cent of all the claims to the European Court of Human Rights. In this video, Denis talks through some of the devastating challenges faced by human rights defenders in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, as well as some of the places that his research has taken him - including working on a Nobel Peace Prize winning project.