Reports

Highlights Due to the deteriorating situation in the east and worsening weather conditions, the number of people registering as internally displaced people (IDPs) is rapidly increasing. On 26 November, the State Emergency Service (SES) has reported the…

The situation in Kharkiv was calm. The SMM met the head of the village council of government-controlled Beleovodsk (90 km north of Luhansk) who said that approximately 1,500 of the district’s roughly 8,200 residents are internally displaced…

The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. In Kharkiv the SMM was told by representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine…

The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). In Kharkiv another explosion occurred. An explosion, causing no…

The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). Events marking the first anniversary of Maidan were…

Serious human rights violations persist in eastern Ukraine despite tenuous ceasefire – UN report GENEVA (20 November 2014) – Civilians have continued to be killed, unlawfully detained, tortured and disappeared in eastern Ukraine, and the number of…

Highlights Violence continues to increase on a daily base in Eastern Ukraine. The two-month-old ceasefire is under severe threat with each side accusing the other of having violated the terms of the peace plan. Two children were killed…

On 17 November the SMM met with the governor of Luhansk to discuss ways to facilitate relief activities in the village of Trokhizbenka (45km NW of Luhansk), under the control of Ukrainian forces, where inhabitants have…

Committee against Torture 6 November 2014 The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the sixth periodic report of Ukraine on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading…

The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The SMM monitored a pro-unity rally at Kharkiv’s Liberty…