Social networks have become an integral part of life, including politics. People use it to express their opinions, collaborate, organise and protest. Politicians and public officials also use social media to promote activities and communicate with voters. However, social networks are not only a source of information but also a resource for disseminating it. The tools developers and owners provide users can be helpful and influence social groups. Read the article to learn how social networks influence democratic processes.

The UK government has announced funding to support the documentation, investigation and prosecution of war crimes in Ukraine.

29 listopada b.r. na zaproszenie Ambasady Brytyjskiej i Fundacji im. Kazimierza Pułaskiego miałam zaszczyt zaprezentować działalność naszego Centrum Pomocy w Dokumentowaniu Zbrodni Wojennych podczas konferencji "Sprawiedliwość dla Ukrainy", która odbyła się w Muzeum Historii Polski na terenie Cytadeli Warszawskiej. Nasze Centrum zostało otwarte w stolicy Polski we wrześniu ubiegłego roku z inicjatywy Sieci Obywatelskiej OPORA. 

Offener Brief “Unterstützung der Ukraine”

More than 20 representatives of expert organisations, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and well-known public figures such as Serhiy Zhadan ask Scholz to develop a long-term uncompromising strategy for Ukraine's victory and to provide the Taurus without delay. Other calls include support for the creation of a special tribunal against the aggressor, a formal invitation to join NATO at the 2024 summit in Washington, and tougher sanctions.

After the breakout of the full-scale invasion, many public and media initiatives embarked on documenting war crimes committed by Russians in Ukraine. Anyone entering this effort realizes that the topic is broad enough to include everyone willing to engage. Thus, as of end of November, 2023, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine instituted over 114,000 criminal proceedings. However, how could media and civil society members work more efficiently in this area? It was discussed by the participants of the theme-based meeting in Warsaw on November, 28, as part of the Donbas Media Forum: Global.

On November 6, the National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) made public on its website a draft law "On the Integrity of Lobbying and Advocacy in Ukraine” and draft  Amendments to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses regarding violations of legislation regarding lobbying and advocacy (from now on, these will be referred to as the draft laws) and initiated public discussion on the matter.

The necessity to adopt the law on lobbying is mentioned in the Ukraine 2023 Report by the European Commission and the measures needed to implement the State Anti-Corruption Program. However, the draft law “On Fair Lobbying and Advocacy in Ukraine” (hereinafter—draft law) and the accompanying draft of amendments to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses (hereinafter—the Code of Administrative Offenses), which were developed by the National Agency for Corruption Prevention (hereinafter—NACP), are problematic for such reasons