Reports

16-year-old *Ihor’s family car exploded on a landmine when driving to fetch water. 8-year-old *Veronika’s father stepped on a mine while clearing backyard after shelling. “We have to convey to children that there are no safe explosive items”,…

Date: 3 April 2023 March 2023 From 1 to 31 March 2023, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 765 civilian casualties in Ukraine: 178 killed (100 men, 51 women, 7 boys, 1…

KYIV, 3 April 2023 – The number of children confirmed killed in Ukraine has passed 500 after more than 13 months of full-scale war, Save the Children said today. Since February 2022, at least one child has…

Travelling in Ukraine these days isn’t easy writes IOM Regional Director Manfred Profazi. When I served as Chief of Mission for the International Organization for Migration from 2012 to 2017 it was possible to fly, or take…

DELIVERED BY Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights AT 52nd session of the Human Rights Council FROM Interactive Dialogue on Ukraine LOCATION Geneva Mr President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, The Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine has thrown us back to an archaic…

STOCKHOLM, 29 March 2023 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Valiant Richey, and UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, expressed their grave…

Ukraine: International Justice Response Q&A Highlights Need for Coordinated Efforts to Address Grave Abuses (The Hague) – Governments and international bodies that have made unprecedented efforts to promote justice for crimes committed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine…

The United States and 44 other countries, with the support of Ukraine, invoked the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Moscow Mechanism requesting that the OSCE’s Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)…

In the year since the start of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine we have seen unimaginable harm inflicted on civilians across Ukraine. Over 7,000 civilians have been killed and approximately 14 million have fled their…

"Not a single safe place" - new report reveals dangers faced by displaced Ukrainian women Russia’s war on Ukraine has caused an unprecedented scale of forced displacement, most of these people being women and children, a new…