Human Rights Aspects of Involuntary Displacement from the Occupied Crimea

Abstract

The occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014 and systematic and largescale policy of the occupation authorities aimed at persecuting and discriminating the population, which does not show loyalty to the occupation authorities, caused mass displacement of population from Crimea and constitutes a number of human rights violations. The thesis aims to analyze the causing factors of the population displacement from the occupied Crimea in order to prove its involuntary nature, and to determine human rights violations which arise from such displacement. Consequently, it is proved that without using direct coercion to flee, the Russian Federation applies such policies and practices at the occupied Crimea that result in violations of human rights and lead to the involuntary population displacement from the peninsula. The involuntary displacement itself results in the violations of the right to respect for private and family life, right to property and freedom of movement and choice of residence.