Thematic Human Rights Reports

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.

This report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) examines the detention of civilians in the context of the armed attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The report covers the period from 24 February 2022 to 23 May 2023 and is based on the findings of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).

This report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) focuses on the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) by the parties to the international armed conflict since the large- scale armed attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine commencing on 24 February 2022. The report covers the period from 24 February 2022 to 23 February 2023 and is based on the findings of the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.

This report is based on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. It covers the period from 1 November 2019 to 31 October 2021 and provides a brief overview of the situation concerning civic space, including freedoms of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and association, and the situation of human rights defenders in territory controlled by the Government, territory controlled by self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk peoples republic’ and ‘Donetsk peoples republic’ and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, occupied by the Russian Federation.