Reports

Highlights The situation in South Ukraine and Crimea remains tense but quiet. Information about the military situation on the Eastern border of Ukraine is unclear with contradictory information. As of 1 April, 2,954 IDPs have made a precautionary…

Highlights The impact of rapid geopolitical changes and military operations in the Crimea have caused displacements of people and increased the risk of further displacements from Crimea. 2,000 IDPs of mainly Tartar ethnicity (80%) from Crimea have arrived…

Highlights The political situation in Eastern and Southern Ukraine remains unstable, especially in Crimea, threatening increased displacement of people from Crimea, with a small flow of people already leaving the Russian-controlled peninsula. On Sunday March 16, Crimea will…

20 February 2014 – As the casualties mount in and around crisis-riven Kiev, so have the calls for restraint from senior United Nations officials, who today once again urged the authorities in Ukraine to exercise restraint…

KYIV, Ukraine/ GENEVA/ NEW YORK, 20 February 2014 - The impact of the heightened violence in Ukraine on children and their families is a matter of growing concern. There have been reports of children being caught up…

UNHCR report says Ukraine needs to improve its asylum system This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on…

Varvara Zhluktenko Ukraine - It is late when Natalia and her three children enter the arrival hall of Kyiv Boryspil airport, exhausted after their long journey from Damascus, but safe. Natalia is one of 54 stranded Ukrainian women…

Amnesty International has urged the Ukrainian authorities to stop the ill-treatment of a group of detained asylum-seekers and their supporters, who were yesterday attacked by security forces attempting to forcibly end a hunger strike. Baton-wielding security officers…

Amnesty International is calling on the Ukrainian authorities to release Somali nationals who are currently on hunger strike in protest at being detained for up to a year “for the purposes of deportation” following court orders…