Contribution from Adil Abduramanov - Help for Ukraine

ELSA has been extremely helpful in our efforts to help Ukraine struck by the Russian invasion.

The immediate reaction to the invasion was to establish that ELSA Russia does not share the values of ELSA, and instead tries to push their own values and narratives, influenced by state propaganda. This became grounds for expulsion of ELSA Russia from the Network.

The International Council Meeting of ELSA also decided to create the Working Group on Help for Ukraine, which aims to focus and concentrate the efforts of National Groups in their aspiration to help Ukrainian law students.

Moreover, ELSA website contains a set of links to charities and foundations that work with Ukrainian refugees and humanitarian aid to those Ukrainians that suffered the consequences of the Russian attack. They have also doubled down on their help, and together with their partners supported the Homes for Ukraine scheme by the United Kingdom.

The International Board of ELSA worked hard to make sure the Ukrainian team could cross the closed Ukrainian border and participate in the Final Round of John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition in Geneva, Switzerland.

The genuine wish to help and initiative to help Ukraine was not limited only to ELSA as an international organisation. National Groups of ELSA in their respective countries were also spectacular in their response and will to help the Ukrainian students that fled to their countries, as well as in making sure those students were able to study law regardless of their location.

Therefore, this paragraph is reserved, in no particular order, for ELSA Poland, ELSA Lithuania, ELSA Slovakia, ELSA Croatia, ELSA Czech Republic, ELSA Estonia, ELSA Germany, ELSA Switzerland, ELSA UK and many others – to whom we wish to extend our gratitude for being wonderful National Groups and great hosts to Ukrainian students temporarily residing together with them.

United we stand, together we prevail.