At the OSCE/ODIHR Human Dimension Conference, during a side event on the protection of the rights of Ukrainian children in a situation of mass migration, Svetlana Shcherban (Kharkiv Institute for Social Research) spoke about the problems of evacuating families with…
Theme: Crisis Digest
Polit.ru published an interview with Roman Kiselyov, head of legal programs at the Moscow Helsinki Group, about the situation of Ukrainians stuck in Russian Centres for the Temporary Detention of Foreign Nationals (CTDFN) because of the war. Expulsion and deportations…
The UN is concerned about the plight of children with disabilities affected by the war in Ukraine
Before the start of the military conflict, more than 160,000 children with disabilities lived in Ukraine. According to the National Health Service of Ukraine, 105 thousand of them were in boarding schools. It is known that by the end of…
Solidarity and Mutual Aid: A Study on the Evacuation of Persons with Disabilities from War Zones
The newspaper «День» (day.kyiv.ua) published preliminary results of a sociological study of the evacuation of people with disabilities in Ukraine, conducted by the organization Fight For Right/Борьба за права людей с инвалидностью. This summer, the organization conducted 20 in-depth expert…
The Crimean Human Rights Group and Крим.Реалії report that on September 2, 2022, the Russian-controlled Kievskiy District Court of Simferopol sentenced Crimean Tatars Ruslan Ablurakhmanov and Ayder Umerovaya to 5 years in a strict regime colony for participation in the…
UNICEF: War marred the beginning of the school year for four million Ukrainian schoolchildren
Since the beginning of Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, thousands of schools have been damaged or destroyed, according to UNICEF. Far from all schools opened on September 1: the government recognized less than 60% of the country’s schools as safe….