OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August – 30 November 2023) This thirty-seventh report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights situation in Ukraine covers the period from 1 August to 30 November 2023. From 1 August to 30 November, OHCHR documented 2440 civilian casualties (576 killed and 1864 injured), with the majority (86 per cent) occurring in

Lithuania refused to grant political asylum to the head of the Belarusian Centre for Civil Initiatives "Our House," Olga Karach.   This was reported by "Meduza" with reference to Karach herself. According to her, the Lithuanian authorities consider her a "threat to national security". They explained their decision by the fact that she had interviewed the founder of the LDPR, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who died last spring, as well as participated

The flow of Ukrainian refugees into Europe at the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion revealed the EU's capacity to take in large numbers of refugees and also showed the benefits of a humane approach to migrants. Ukrainians standing in line at passport control after arriving in the evening train from Ukraine to Przemysl railway station Image by picture alliance / NurPhoto | Artur Widak© At the same time,

There are more than 4 million refugees from Ukraine who have been granted temporary protection status in EU countries. The number of fugitives from war increased by almost 46,000 in June. The largest increase in arrivals was observed in Germany, the Czech Republic and Ireland, Eurostat reported. As of 30 June, 4 million 70 thousand refugees from Ukraine had temporary protection status in EU countries. The largest number of people

Fiodor Ghelici said that discrimination is promoted at the level of the authorities, not of the ordinary people. Сonsiders Fiodor Ghelici, the ambassador and resident representative of the International Organization for Economic Development (IOED) in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, head of the Regional Office in Moldova for Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Turkey, and Ukraine, the official representative of the IOED at the UN in Geneva, the representative

„Voices of War“ is a project of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group aimed at collecting materials and interviews with witnesses of the Russian occupation and Russian war crimes in Ukraine.   This project is part of the global initiative „Tribunal for Putin“, the creation of which was initiated in February 2022 by three well-known Ukrainian human rights organisations - the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the Kharkiv Human Rights