Rapports

Ivano-Frankivsk, 24 August 2022 – Every morning for the last four months, Ruslan and his wife, Yulia, have woken in simple metal cots in an Ivano-Frankivsk school gym that serves as one big bedroom for dozens…

SITUATION OVERVIEW 24 August marks six months since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, which began in February 2022 and triggered the largest displacement within Europe since the Second World War. This date also marks…

Internally-displaced Ukrainians, many with disabilities, join local residents to clean up two communities LVIV, 23 August 2022 -- The Luhansk Association of Organizations of People with Disabilities, an NGO that normally operates in eastern Ukraine, but which…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ukraine has been a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities since 2008, yet monitors and civil society consistently point to the absence of a rights-based approach to disability, ultimately preventing…

Multidisciplinary mobile teams helping thousands in Ukraine have estimated that one in five families are in need of mental health support, as the war continues to upturn lives. Since March 2022, 50 mobile teams put together by…

Each year on 19 August, we pay tribute to the real-life heroes who commit their lives to helping others in times of crisis. This year’s theme highlights the global solidarity at the heart of humanitarian relief…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon held a meeting with States parties on the situation of persons with disabilities in Ukraine and in countries where they fled following the Russian aggression. Jonas…

The wards of the “Home Care” program of the Luhansk Regional Organization of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society are single or conditionally single elderly people who need help with household chores and self-care. Together with social…

On a working visit, Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, visited the Dnipropetrovsk region and talked with representatives of the Ukrainian Red Cross. Currently, about 300,000 internally displaced persons…

GENEVA (11 August 2022) – UN human rights experts today expressed concern about the situation of children with disabilities in Ukraine placed in institutions and being displaced to other institutional settings either within Ukraine or further…