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UKRAINE
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United Nations. Cartographic Section.
Date of Document:
March 2014
Accessed Date:
13 June 2014
Title:
Ukraine. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
Accessed Date:
29 October 2012
Title:
Ukraine. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
14 June 2023
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine : Données démolinguistiques. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde
Date of Document:
4 May 2023
Accessed Date:
13 June 2023
Title:
Common core document forming part of the reports of States parties: Ukraine
Date of Document:
30 January 2018
Accessed Date:
23 July 2018
Title:
War in Ukraine. One Year On, Nowhere Safe.
Source:
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
Date of Document:
1 March 2023
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
“I used to have a home.” Older people's experience of war, displacement, and access to housing in Ukraine.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
December 2022
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine. Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023.
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Date of Document:
December 2022
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine. Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2018.
Source:
United States. Social Security Administration.
Date of Document:
September 2018
Accessed Date:
9 July 2019
Title:
Ukraine: Humanitarian Situation Monitoring Factsheet: Focus on damage to infrastructure and disruptions to utilities
Date of Document:
January 2023
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: February 2023 humanitarian access update
Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Date of Document:
16 March 2023
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
EASO Medical Country of Origin Information Report. Ukraine: FFM report – healthcare reform and economic accessibility.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
February 2021
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Ukraine: Russian Strikes Killed Scores of Civilians in Chernihiv
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
10 June 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Ukraine: Pattern of movement, people's needs, and response
Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Date of Document:
27 March 2022
Accessed Date:
27 May 2022
Title:
Ukraine: Humanitarian situation in newly accessible areas of Kharkiv oblast
Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Date of Document:
6 October 2022
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
“Children.” The attack on the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
June 2022
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Banned Landmines Harm Civilians
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
31 January 2023
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine : Point de situation en République Autonome de Crimée et dans la ville de Sébastopol (2014-2019)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
6 April 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Social security and war in Ukraine (February 24 – April 30, 2022)
Date of Document:
17 May 2022
Author:
Natalia Lomonosova; Kateryna Babych
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Ukraine. BTI 2022 Country Report.
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
27 May 2022
Title:
Ukraine: Background, Conflict with Russia, and U.S. Policy
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
5 October 2021
Accessed Date:
27 May 2022
Title:
Employment, social protection, housing: The population's attitude towards government programs of socioeconomic support and the need for them
Date of Document:
15 November 2022
Author:
Natalia Lomonosova; Liliana Filipchuk
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
UNHCR Position on Returns to Ukraine
Source:
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
31 March 2022
Title:
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
15 March 2023
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Ukraine: Security situation. Version 1.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
June 2022
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Impact of conflict on the Ukrainian economy: implications for humanitarian needs
Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Date of Document:
13 February 2023
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Report on violations of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity committed in Ukraine since 24 February 2022
Code:
ODIHR.GAL/26/22/Rev.1
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
13 April 2022
Author:
Wolfgang Benedek et al.
Accessed Date:
28 April 2022
Title:
Treatment of prisoners of war and persons hors de combat in the context of the armed attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine (24 February 2022 to 23 February 2023)
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
24 March 2023
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Destruction and Devastation: One Year of Russia's Assault on Ukraine's Health Care System
Source:
EyeWitness to Atrocities et al.
Date of Document:
February 2023
Author:
Christian De Vos et al.
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Ukrainian Crisis: Situational Analysis
Source:
Data Friendly Space; IMPACT
Date of Document:
2 June 2023
Accessed Date:
13 June 2023
Title:
Housing and war: annual review. Housing policy in the first year of the full-scale war.
Source:
Cedos; International Renaissance Foundation
Date of Document:
22 March 2023
Author:
Anastasiia Bobrova
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Death at the Station. Russian Cluster Munition Attack in Kramatorsk
Source:
Human Rights Watch; SITU Research Investigation
Date of Document:
February 2023
Accessed Date:
7 June 2023
Title:
Health needs assessment of the adult population in Ukraine. Survey report: December 2022.
Source:
World Health Organization
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Flooding due to the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Date of Document:
9 June 2023
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Russian Torture Center in Kherson
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
13 April 2023
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
Report on Violations of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Committed in Ukraine (1 April - 25 June 2022)
Code:
ODIHR.GAL/36/22/Corr.1
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
14 July 2022
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Executions, Torture During Russian Occupation
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
18 May 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Intense and Lasting Harm: Cluster Munition Attacks in Ukraine
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
11 May 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
“He's not coming back”: War crimes in Northwest areas of Kyiv Oblast
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
6 May 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
“Anyone can die at any time”: Indiscriminate attacks by Russian forces in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
13 June 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Registers and war: striking a balance between transparency and security
Date of Document:
23 September 2022
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
Accessed Date:
19 May 2024
Title:
Ukraine. Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
27 March 2023
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine. Freedom in the World 2023.
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Eighth periodic report submitted by Ukraine under article 40 of the Covenant, due in 2018
Date of Document:
30 January 2019
Accessed Date:
9 July 2019
Title:
Ukraine. World Report 2023: Events of 2022.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2023
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine: 1 August 2022 – 31 January 2023
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
24 March 2023
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine: Report of the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
25 July 2022
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Civilian casualties update
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
8 May 2023
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Human Cost of Brutal Russian Invasion
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
24 February 2023
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Crimea. Freedom in the World 2023.
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine. Nations in Transit 2023.
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Interim report on implementation of the recommendations received by Ukraine within the third cycle of the universal periodic review
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Eastern Donbas. Freedom in the World 2023.
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Human rights and international humanitarian law norms: Crimea 2022 situation review
Source:
Crimean Human Rights Group
Date of Document:
January 2023
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Freedom House Report on Hate Crimes in Ukraine. Annual report 2021.
Source:
Freedom House et al.
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Russia: Enforced Disappearance of Ukrainian Teacher
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
13 June 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Human Rights Situation in Crimea and 250 Days of Full-Scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Source:
Crimean Human Rights Group
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Source:
Statelessness Index
Date of Document:
March 2023
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Law of Ukraine, On Citizenship of Ukraine (last amended 2019)
Accessed Date:
25 June 2021
Title:
The State of Statelessness in Ukraine
Source:
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Date of Document:
1 March 2023
Author:
Abigail Edwards et al.
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Russia and Ukraine: Issuance of Russian passports and citizenship rights to Ukraine citizens living in the territories of Crimea and Donbas [Donbass] (2014-February 2020)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
28 February 2020
Accessed Date:
30 March 2020
Title:
Ukraine. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
Review of the Document Security and Identity Management in Ukraine. Document Security and Identity Management in Ukraine.
Source:
International Organization for Migration. Mission in Ukraine.
Accessed Date:
6 July 2016
Title:
Fraudulent documentation, including types of fraudulent documents available and their prevalence; how they are obtained; who is producing and distributing them; how documents are falsified; state efforts to counter their usage
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
3 December 2012
Accessed Date:
25 April 2013
Title:
Country Report: Ukraine
Source:
European University Institute. European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship.
Date of Document:
April 2013
Accessed Date:
27 July 2015
Title:
Ukraine : Nationalité, séjour, documents
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
15 March 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Russia Threatens Ukrainians Who Refuse Russian Citizenship
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
16 May 2023
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Ukraine: Presidential Election, 31 March and 21 April 2019. ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report.
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
20 November 2019
Accessed Date:
27 June 2022
Title:
Information on the Right Sector, including affiliated groups and activities; involvement in eastern Ukraine; relations with authorities (2013-July 2016)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
22 July 2016
Accessed Date:
29 July 2016
Title:
Ukraine. Election for Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Supreme Council) of 21 July 2019.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
8 June 2020
Title:
Ukraine : Poursuites et traitements réservés aux insurgés séparatistes par les autorités ukrainiennes entre janvier 2017 et août 2019
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
19 September 2019
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Ukraine : Le Parti communiste d'Ukraine
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
6 April 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
What Next for Ukraine's Formerly Pro-Russian Regions?
Source:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date of Document:
2 December 2022
Author:
Konstantin Skorkin
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Special Report. Foreign Fighters, Volunteers, and Mercenaries: Non-State Actors and Narratives in Ukraine.
Source:
The Soufan Center
Date of Document:
April 2022
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
These are the men Russia wanted to put in charge of Ukraine. Ukraine has banned Pro-Russia political party Opposition Platform, but its MPs still play a decisive role in Parliament.
Date of Document:
4 March 2023
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Source:
European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity
Date of Document:
21 June 2022
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine. Election for Ukrainian Presidency of 31 March 2019 (Round 1).
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
23 July 2019
Title:
Ukraine. Election for Ukrainian Presidency of 21 April 2019 (Round 2).
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Local Elections, 25 October 2020. ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission Final Report.
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
29 January 2021
Accessed Date:
27 June 2022
Title:
Ukraine : Principales figures et chronologie de la vie politique ukrainienne depuis l'indépendance
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
10 June 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Ukraine : Les élections législatives de juillet 2019
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
17 April 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Ukraine : L'élection présidentielle de mars/avril 2019
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
9 April 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Domestic violence, including legislation, recourse, state protection and support services available to victims, including those who are stalked or harassed by their perpetrator; the effect of residence registration on victims that try to...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
10 July 2015
Accessed Date:
30 July 2015
Title:
Law of Ukraine on Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence (amended 2019)
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Sexual Violence and the Ukraine Conflict
Source:
Insecurity Insight
Date of Document:
April 2022
Accessed Date:
28 April 2022
Title:
Ninth periodic report submitted by Ukraine under article 18 of the Convention, due in 2021
Date of Document:
29 December 2021
Accessed Date:
30 May 2022
Title:
Ukraine. Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019.
Source:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Date of Document:
7 December 2018
Accessed Date:
10 July 2019
Title:
Rapid Gender Analysis of Ukraine
Source:
CARE International; UN Women
Date of Document:
4 May 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Moscow Mechanism: Report on violations and abuses of international humanitarian and human rights law, war crimes and crimes against humanity, related to the forcible transfer and/or deportation of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation
Code:
ODIHR.GAL/37/23/Rev.1/Corr.1
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
4 May 2023
Author:
Veronika Bilkova et al.
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
Reproductive Rights of Romani Women in Ukraine
Source:
European Roma Rights Centre
Date of Document:
February 2019
Accessed Date:
10 July 2019
Title:
Concluding observations on the ninth periodic report of Ukraine
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
1 November 2022
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine. WAVE Country Report 2021: Women's Specialist Support Services in Europe and the impact of COVID-19 on their provision.
Source:
Women Against Violence Europe
Date of Document:
December 2021
Accessed Date:
30 May 2022
Title:
Gender-based violence in the conflict-affected regions of Ukraine
Source:
United Nations Population Fund
Author:
Ukrainian Centre for Social Reforms
Accessed Date:
8 June 2020
Title:
OSCE-led survey on violence against women. Well-being and safety of women: Ukraine results report.
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe et al.
Accessed Date:
8 June 2020
Title:
Online Violence Against Women in Elections in Ukraine: An IFES Assessment
Source:
Ukrainian Marketing Association et al.
Date of Document:
November 2019
Author:
Otito Greg-Obi et al.
Accessed Date:
17 June 2020
Title:
Ukraine. 2021 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor.
Source:
United States. Department of Labor.
Date of Document:
28 September 2022
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Not a private matter: Domestic and sexual violence against women in Eastern Ukraine
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
11 December 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
“We Must Provide a Family, Not Rebuild Orphanages”: The Consequences of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine for Children in Ukrainian Residential Institutions
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
March 2023
Editor:
Bede Sheppard et al.
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Rapid Assessment: Impact of the War in Ukraine on Women's Civil Society Organizations
Source:
United Nations. UN Women.
Accessed Date:
14 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine. Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex People in Europe and Central Asia 2023.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. ILGA-Europe.
Date of Document:
February 2023
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
The Battle for Freedom. LGBTQ Situation in Ukraine in 2022.
Source:
LGBT Human Rights Nash Svit Center
Author:
Andrii Kravchuk et al.
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
War brings urgency to fight for LGBT rights in Ukraine
Date of Document:
5 June 2023
Author:
Emma Graham-Harrison; Artem Mazhulin
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
LGBTQ+ Ukrainians fight for their country, and their rights
Source:
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Date of Document:
21 March 2022
Accessed Date:
28 April 2022
Title:
Ukraine: Unfulfilled promises. Challenging hate: Monitoring anti-LGBT “hate speech” and responses to it in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.
Date of Document:
February 2018
Accessed Date:
8 June 2020
Title:
Ukraine. Trans Legal Mapping Report 2019: Recognition before the law.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
September 2020
Author:
Zhan Chiam et al.
Accessed Date:
30 May 2022
Title:
Ukraine : La situation des minorités sexuelles et de genre
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
24 February 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity on his visit to Ukraine
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
27 April 2020
Accessed Date:
30 May 2022
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
Disappearing Human Rights Defenders: Russia's Human Rights Violations and International Crimes in Ukraine
Source:
American Bar Association; Center for Civil Liberties
Date of Document:
September 2022
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report: Ukraine
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
23 December 2021
Accessed Date:
27 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
19 July 2022
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
The structure and administration of the health system; access to health care throughout Ukraine; ability of people to access their medical records and procedures for doing so; who has access to medical records; the types of medical documents and ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
15 January 2013
Accessed Date:
25 April 2013
Title:
Nabu Report. First half 2022 on two fronts.
Source:
Ukraine. National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Accessed Date:
27 June 2023
Title:
Report concerning the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings by Ukraine
Source:
Council of Europe. Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.
Date of Document:
22 November 2018
Accessed Date:
10 July 2019
Title:
Security and Justice in Ukraine: Perspectives from communities in Donetsk, Luhansk and Zhytomyr oblasts
Source:
United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine
Date of Document:
7 November 2018
Accessed Date:
10 July 2019
Title:
Making the Rounds: Illicit Ammunition in Ukraine
Source:
Small Arms Survey
Date of Document:
January 2021
Author:
Matt Schroeder; Olena Shumska
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Report submitted by Ukraine under article 29 (1) of the Convention, due in 2017
Date of Document:
11 November 2021
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on their visit to Ukraine
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
9 August 2019
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on its visit to Ukraine: Comments by the State
Date of Document:
6 September 2019
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Ukraine's hate crime, hate speech and discrimination data collection system: Recommendations for improvement and for adopting a joint approach and national situational analysis
Source:
Council of Europe
Date of Document:
September 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Information on military conscription and exemption from service, including alternative military service for conscientious objectors; whether members of the Orthodox Church can perform alternative military service (2014-November 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
1 December 2015
Accessed Date:
28 July 2016
Title:
Crimea: Conscription Violates International Law
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
1 November 2019
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Whether Ukrainian nationals who served in the Soviet Union's military could be mobilized in Ukraine (2015-March 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
26 March 2018
Accessed Date:
30 July 2018
Title:
Military service, including information on military service notices, who issues them, their contents, and physical characteristics; whether notices have a warning regarding refusal or evasion of military service; information on penalties for refusing or evading military service (2014- May 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
1 June 2015
Accessed Date:
28 July 2016
Title:
Ukraine : service militaire et sanctions en cas d'insoumission ou de désertion
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
11 April 2022
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine : Le service militaire en République Populaire de Donetsk (DNR)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
2 April 2019
Accessed Date:
8 June 2020
Title:
COI Query Response. Ukraine: General Information on the so-called Luhansk (or Lugansk) Guard, in particular: modalities of recruitment; amount, frequency and currency of the salary received by its members; hierarchical structure and command mechanism...
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
1 February 2019
Accessed Date:
8 June 2020
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Ukraine: Military service. Version 8.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
June 2022
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Conscientious objector told 'to be ready to be taken to prison'
Date of Document:
15 February 2023
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine : La mobilisation générale de février 2022
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
2 November 2022
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine army discipline crackdown sparks fear and fury on the front
Date of Document:
5 February 2023
Author:
Veronika Melkozerova
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
The law on the Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman), including responsibilities, powers and reporting mechanism (1998-2016)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
26 July 2017
Accessed Date:
26 July 2017
Title:
An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation's Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent
Source:
New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy; Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
Date of Document:
May 2022
Author:
Yonah Diamond et al.
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Rule of law in Ukraine: Human Rights in the Criminal Proceedings
Source:
All-Ukrainian European Foundation “The League of Law” et al.
Date of Document:
26 September 2017
Accessed Date:
10 July 2019
Title:
Whether a victim of a crime can request that the Public Prosecutor's Office or another public agency initiate an investigation into the alleged crime if the police have failed to act (January-November 2017)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
27 November 2017
Accessed Date:
30 July 2018
Title:
Report to the Ukrainian Government on the visit to Ukraine carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 4 to 13 August 2020
Source:
Council of Europe. European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Date of Document:
15 December 2020
Accessed Date:
30 May 2022
Title:
Update: Researching Ukrainian Law
Date of Document:
April 2021
Author:
Nazar Chernyavsky; Yuliia Brusko
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Prison conditions
Source:
Denmark. Danish Immigration Service.
Date of Document:
November 2021
Accessed Date:
30 May 2022
Title:
DRC Legal Alert: Issue 93 | 16 April – 30 April 2023
Source:
Danish Refugee Council
Date of Document:
April 2023
Accessed Date:
27 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Justice Still Needed for Victims of Unlawful Detention in Eastern Ukraine
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
6 August 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Situation in Ukraine: War crimes and crimes against humanity committed in prisons seized and controlled by anti-government forces
Source:
International Federation for Human Rights; Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
Date of Document:
September 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Ukraine : Le système judiciaire depuis 2014
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
7 October 2020
Accessed Date:
30 May 2022
Title:
Law on Supporting the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language
Accessed Date:
27 May 2022
Title:
Law of Ukraine on Amending Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine regarding Recognition as a Stateless Person
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Ukraine: New Laws Criminalize Collaboration with an Aggressor State
Source:
United States. Law Library of Congress. Global Legal Monitor.
Date of Document:
4 April 2022
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
The new law on police and its effectiveness; recourse and state protection available to private citizens who have been the victims of criminal actions of police officers in Kiev (2014-January 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
14 January 2016
Accessed Date:
28 July 2016
Title:
Standardized police reporting forms, including appearance; whether police are required to submit a written response to a complainant regardless of whether they pursue an investigation, appearance and content of the written response; police procedures for following up on physical assaults reported by hospitals and medical practitioners, including type of report generated; whether these policies and reports are standardized or if there are regional variations
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
19 October 2015
Accessed Date:
28 July 2016
Title:
Police summons, including issuance procedures, methods of delivery to the affected person, description of the document and the information it contains, including whether the police include the reasons why the person is summoned on the document and whether the police include the relevant legislative provision of the Ukrainian Criminal Code; whether the person has a right to counsel for attendance; prevalence of fraudulent police summonses
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
21 May 2015
Accessed Date:
27 July 2016
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment on his visit to Ukraine
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
17 January 2019
Accessed Date:
10 July 2019
Title:
Ukraine. Freedom on the Net 2022.
Editor:
Adrian Shahbaz et al.
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine. Vibrant Information Barometer 2022.
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Crimea: Freedom of Speech in Occupation. Information Analytics Report on persecuting journalists and bloggers within the Crimean Peninsula territory (March 2014 — September 2019)
Source:
Crimean Human Rights Group; ZMINA Human Rights Center
Author:
Iryna Siedova et al.
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Ukraine. International Religious Freedom Report for 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
May 2023
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
Crimea: Religious freedom survey, September 2022
Date of Document:
22 September 2022
Author:
Felix Corley; John Kinahan
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine : Les minorités religieuses dans les républiques séparatistes du Donbass
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
25 November 2022
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: Kyiv Pechersk Lavra conflict, draft law, impact on freedom of religion or belief
Date of Document:
6 April 2023
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Roma Belong: Statelessness, Discrimination and Marginalisation of Roma in Ukraine
Source:
European Roma Rights Centre
Date of Document:
March 2018
Accessed Date:
10 July 2019
Title:
Fourth Opinion on Ukraine – adopted on 10 March 2017
Code:
ACFC/OP/IV(2017)002
Source:
Council of Europe. Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
Date of Document:
5 March 2018
Accessed Date:
12 July 2018
Title:
The Ternipe Roma Youth Centre in Lviv (Ternipe): funding, structure and membership; areas of operation, including whether Ternipe operates outside of Lviv; activities, including any political activities; other NGOs that provide support services to Roma
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
9 October 2015
Accessed Date:
28 July 2016
Title:
The Rights of Roma Women in Ukraine: Overview on the Situation of Roma Women in Ukraine in the Context of the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
Source:
United Nations. UN Women; International Charitable Organization Roma Women Fund Chiricli
Accessed Date:
10 July 2019
Title:
Fifth Report submitted by Ukraine Pursuant to Article 25, paragraph 2 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Date of Document:
10 January 2022
Accessed Date:
30 May 2022
Title:
Crimean Tatars' struggle for human rights
Source:
Council of Europe
Date of Document:
18 April 2023
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Roma in Ukraine – A Time for Action: Priorities and Pathways for an Effective Integration Policy
Source:
Minority Rights Group Europe
Date of Document:
April 2019
Accessed Date:
10 July 2019
Title:
Radicals Target Roma People in Ukraine
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
29 November 2021
Accessed Date:
30 May 2022
Title:
Russian Repression a Persistent Reality in Crimea: Another Unjust Verdict Against Crimean Tatars
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
22 September 2020
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Written Comments of the European Roma Rights Centre, Concerning Ukraine: For Consideration by the Human Rights Committee at its 129th Session (29th June – 24th July 2020)
Source:
European Roma Rights Centre
Accessed Date:
21 June 2021
Title:
Roma Rights Under Siege: Monitoring Reports from One Year of War in Ukraine
Source:
European Roma Rights Centre
Date of Document:
February 2023
Author:
Bernard Rorke; Anastasiia Zhuravel
Editor:
Bernard Rorke et al.
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Romani Family Denied Exit From Ukraine: Border Guards Accuse Roma Of “Wrongdoings” In Hungary
Source:
European Roma Rights Centre
Date of Document:
29 March 2022
Accessed Date:
28 April 2022
Title:
Moldova: Romani Refugees from Ukraine Face Segregation
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
25 May 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Situation of Russian-speakers in Kyiv [Kiev], including their ability to access housing, employment, education, and healthcare; treatment by the Right Sector [Pravyi Sektor] political group; state protection (2019–November 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
9 November 2021
Accessed Date:
21 June 2022
Title:
Combined twenty-fourth to twenty-sixth periodic reports submitted by Ukraine under article 9 of the Convention, due in 2020
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
23 May 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
For displaced Roma, the conflict has exacerbated existing patterns of discrimination – and left them without an income
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Forced displacement from and within Ukraine: Profiles, experiences, and aspirations of affected populations
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum. et al.
Date of Document:
28 October 2022
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Handbook for the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of Internally Displaced Persons
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council
Date of Document:
9 May 2017
Accessed Date:
13 July 2017
Title:
Ukraine. Legislative Update: UNHCR update on displacement-related legislation.
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
March 2023
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
Title:
Residence registration system including procedures and requirements to register; rights associated with registration; information recorded and who has access to registered information; penalties for unauthorized use of residence ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
20 July 2017
Accessed Date:
26 July 2017
Title:
Poland: Trafficking, Exploitation Risks for Refugees
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
29 April 2022
Accessed Date:
17 June 2022
Title:
Migrants, Asylum Seekers Locked Up in Ukraine
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
4 April 2022
Accessed Date:
28 April 2022
Title:
“We Had No Choice”: “Filtration” and the Crime of Forcibly Transferring Ukrainian Civilians to Russia
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
September 2022
Author:
Belkis Wille; Tanya Lokshina
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine: “Like A Prison Convoy”: Russia's Unlawful Transfer and Abuse of Civilians In Ukraine During ‘Filtration'
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
November 2022
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Lives on Hold: Intentions and Perspectives of Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine
Source:
United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees Ukraine
Date of Document:
February 2023
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Responding to Ukraine's Displacement Crisis: From Speed to Sustainability. Briefing N°94.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
26 September 2022
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Fleeing Ukraine: Displaced people's experiences in the EU.
Source:
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Accessed Date:
15 June 2023
Title:
Ukraine International Displacement Report: General Population Survey
Source:
International Organization for Migration
Date of Document:
23 January 2023
Accessed Date:
16 June 2023
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 30 June 2023:
Title:
Ukraine. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
20 March 2023
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/ukraine/
Accessed Date:
13 June 2023
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