Center for Civil Liberties
⚠️ Violation Context
The Center for Civil Liberties delegated Andrii Kulibaba to the Public Integrity Council’s second composition. He left the Council on 11 August 2020 — before the revised Indicators of Integrity were adopted on 16 December 2020. The organization was subsequently admitted by the High Qualification Commission of Judges to the assembly forming the third composition (decision No. 40/zp-23 of 27 July 2023) but no CCL delegate was elected to it, and the organization did not take part in the 2025 cycle.
This is the narrowest documented involvement of any organization on this site, and it is recorded here at that width and no wider. CCL is included because the registry of organizations that formed the Public Integrity Council is published in full, without omissions in either direction: organizations refused admission by the HQCJ are excluded from this documentation, and organizations admitted to it are recorded.
This profile does not allege that the Center for Civil Liberties has made any statement recognizing Crimea as Russian territory. It has not. Nor does it allege that CCL’s delegate voted for paragraph 1.5 — he had left the Council four months before that text was adopted.
Ukrainian Law Violations (applicable through institutional sponsorship):#
- Constitution of Ukraine, Article 2 — Territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
- Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 73, 133–134 — Crimea is defined as an integral part of Ukraine.
- Law of Ukraine No. 1207-VII (2014) — Crimea is Ukrainian territory under temporary occupation, not foreign territory.
🏛️ About
Center for Civil Liberties#
The narrowest documented involvement on this site — recorded at its actual width
The Center for Civil Liberties is a Ukrainian human rights organization founded in 2007 and awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with the Russian organization Memorial and the Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, for its work documenting war crimes and human rights violations. It is documented on CrimeaWatch for two acts: the delegation of Andrii Kulibaba to the Public Integrity Council’s second composition, and the organization’s admission by the High Qualification Commission of Judges to the assembly forming the third.
Why This Profile Exists#
This site publishes the complete registry of organizations that took part in forming the Public Integrity Council, drawn from the Council’s own composition rosters and from published decisions of the High Qualification Commission of Judges. Publishing that registry in full means recording every organization that appears in it, including those whose involvement is slight and those whose reputation is high. Omitting an organization because of its standing would make the registry an argument rather than a record.
The same rule works in the other direction and is applied here: the five organizations the HQCJ refused admission in 2023, and the five refused in 2025, are not documented on this site. They applied; they were not admitted; they did not form the Council.
The Limits of What Is Recorded#
The Center for Civil Liberties’ involvement is the narrowest of any organization documented here, and the limits are stated rather than left to inference:
Its delegate was not present for the vote on paragraph 1.5. Andrii Kulibaba’s powers as a member of the second composition ended on 11 August 2020. The revised Indicators were adopted unanimously on 16 December 2020, four months later. He did not vote for that text, and this page does not suggest otherwise.
Its 2023 admission produced no member. CCL appears in HQCJ decision No. 40/zp-23 of 27 July 2023 among the sixteen organizations recognized as meeting the requirements for participation in the forming assembly. No CCL delegate sits in the third composition. What is documented is participation in the assembly, not in the Council.
It did not take part in the most recent cycle. CCL does not appear in HQCJ decision No. 138/zp-25 of 21 July 2025.
What remains, after those limits, is this: an organization applied in 2023 to help constitute a body whose Indicators of Integrity had by then treated visits to occupied Crimea in the same terms as visits to the Russian Federation for two and a half years, and did so without publicly objecting to that provision.
What This Profile Does Not Claim#
CrimeaWatch documents no statement by the Center for Civil Liberties recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, and none is alleged here. The organization’s own published work on Crimea treats the peninsula as occupied Ukrainian territory, consistent with Ukrainian and international law.
Nothing on this page bears on the Nobel Peace Prize or on the documentation work for which it was awarded. The award is recorded in the timeline because it is a fact about the organization, not because it is at issue.
Response and Corrections#
The Center for Civil Liberties may submit a response or a correction request to [email protected]. Submissions are assessed against the underlying sources. Where a statement on this page is shown to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, the profile is amended and the correction is recorded.
CrimeaWatch does not publish responses verbatim and gives no undertaking to reproduce them. What a verified response changes is the content of this profile.
Summary#
The Center for Civil Liberties is documented on this site as a delegating organization of the Public Integrity Council’s second composition, whose delegate left before the revised Indicators were adopted, and as one of the sixteen organizations admitted by the HQCJ to the assembly forming the third composition without placing a member in it.
It appears in this registry because the registry is published in full. Its involvement is the narrowest recorded here, and this page states those limits explicitly rather than leaving them to be inferred.
ℹ️ What Else We Know
The Participation Record#
| PIC composition | Date | CCL involvement |
|---|---|---|
| First | 2016 | none |
| Second | 2018 – 11 August 2020 | Andrii Kulibaba, delegate; departed before the December 2020 revision |
| Third | 27 July 2023 | admitted to the forming assembly; no delegate elected |
| Fourth | 2025 | none — the organization did not participate |
Key Personnel Documented on This Site#
- Andrii Kulibaba — PIC member (second composition, delegated by CCL, until 11 August 2020; third composition, delegated by DEJURE)
👥 Leadership
Chair of the Board; accepted the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on the organization's behalf
📅 Activity Timeline
Public organization 'Center for Civil Liberties' entered in the state register, EDRPOU 35139190, Kyiv
Andrii Kulibaba serves as the organization's delegate; his powers end on 11 August 2020
The PIC unanimously adopts the revised Indicators containing paragraph 1.5 — four months after the CCL delegate's departure
Awarded jointly with Memorial (Russia) and Ales Bialiatski (Belarus) for documenting war crimes and human rights violations
Decision No. 40/zp-23 recognizes CCL as meeting the requirements for participation in the assembly forming the PIC; no CCL delegate is elected to the third composition
CCL does not appear in HQCJ decision No. 138/zp-25 forming the fourth composition
