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Human rights in Ukraine still ‘dire’ amid wide-ranging violations: OHCHR

“The international armed conflict has led to a wide range of human rights violations affecting both civilians and combatants”, the executive summary states, adding that the Office has “verified numerous allegations of arbitrary deprivation of life, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, and conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV).” During the reporting period, a total of 5,987 civilian

Closure of Moscow Helsinki Group, ‘yet another blow to human rights’ in Russia: OHCHR

Maria Hurtado said in a statement that the judgement was just the latest “in a series of actions against civil society”, journalists, other media and opposition groups and human rights defenders. MHG was founded in 1976 by well-known dissidents and reported on human rights violations in the former Soviet Union (USSR) and later the Russian

Ukrainian and Russian POWs tortured and ill-treated: OHCHR |

Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN’s human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, said that, over the past few months, her team had interviewed 159 prisoners of war – or POWs – both men and women, held by Russia, and 175 male prisoners of war held by Ukraine. Ukraine gave the mission access to Russian POWs

Ukraine prisoner of war trials in Mariupol could be a war crime: OHCHR |

OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said the trials by the Russian-backed authorities could begin in the occupied city, possibly within days – and warned that such a process could amount to a war crime. “We are very concerned about the manner in which this is being done. There are pictures in the media of cages being

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Human rights in Ukraine still ‘dire’ amid wide-ranging violations: OHCHR

Ukrainian and Russian POWs tortured and ill-treated: OHCHR |

Ukraine prisoner of war trials in Mariupol could be a war crime: OHCHR |

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