Crimea and other occupied territory

This thematic report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) describes the human rights situation in territory of Ukraine occupied by the Russian Federation following its full-scale armed attack, including areas over which Ukraine regained control afterward. It covers the period from 24 February 2022 to 31 December 2023 and is based on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). 

The report cites human rights and humanitarian law violations since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, a decade marked by systematic efforts to impose Russian rule on the peninsula.

Since the beginning of the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, (“Crimea”) in 2014, OHCHR has documented 43 cases of enforced disappearances in Crimea. These mostly took the form of abductions and kidnappings and the victims consist of 39 men and 4 women.

This briefing paper provides a summary of developments in the area of housing rights, documented by OHCHR/HRMMU in 2020. It is based on information obtained from court registries of the Russian Federation and other open sources and an analysis of Russian laws as applied in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation (“Crimea”).