Editor’s Note: The following is the English-language letter, written by human rights organizations to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, published on the Human Rights Watch website on Sept. 30, 2021.

Dear Mr. President

Dear Members of the Ukrainian Parliament – the Verkhovna Rada,

The undersigned international non-governmental organizations have welcomed the Parliament’s adoption on 20 May 2021 of Law No. 1164-IX “On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the implementation of provisions of international criminal law and humanitarian law”.

Read the full text here.