UN Human Rights Office to release new reports on treatment of prisoners of war and overall human rights situation in Ukraine

HRMMU Head of Mission Matilda Bogner will present the reports at

a press conference in Kyiv on Friday 24 March 2023 at 13:00 local time (11:00 UTC)

at the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre (2 Khreshchatyk Street, (Ukrainian House), Kyiv).

The press conference will be in English, with interpretation into Ukrainian and sign language.

LIVE stream will be available here.

Background: Deployed in March 2014, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine monitors, publicly reports on and advocates for the human rights situation in the country with the aim of fostering access to justice and bringing perpetrators to account. In the aftermath of the armed attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the Mission has been fully dedicated to monitoring how the attack has impacted the human rights situation in the country. HRMMU has relocated some of its operations due to the hostilities and is now present in Kyiv, Uzhhorod, Odesa, Dnipro and Poltava, as well as in Kraków and Chișinău, and conducts regular visits to other cities. The Mission continues to remotely monitor the human rights situation in Crimea. Every day, human rights officers speak to victims and witnesses of human rights violations throughout the country, including those in territory occupied by the Russian Federation. 

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For more information or interviews requests, please contact:

Kris Janowski at +380952300437 krzysztof.janowski@un.org 

Kateryna Girniak at +380504868364 kateryna.girniak@un.org