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The present report is submitted pursuant to the request in the statement by the President of the Security Council of 21 September 2018 (S/PRST/2018/18). It also responds to the Council’s requests for reporting on specific themes in resolutions 2286 (2016), 2417 (2018), 2474 (2019), 2475 (2019) and 2573 (2021).

The briefing note focuses on two major concerns affecting the rights of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities – institutionalisation and denial of legal capacity – and analyses the impact of these and other concerns on the range of human rights provided in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other universal international human rights instruments applicable in Ukraine.

On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched an armed attack on Ukraine, which led to a grave deterioration in the human rights situation across the country. The conduct of hostilities by the Russian armed forces has been characterized by the broad use of explosive weapons with wide area effects in populated areas, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, missile, and air strikes.

This thirty-third report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights situation in Ukraine covers the period from 1 August 2021 to 31 January 2022. It is based on the work of the United Nations 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.