Jul 20, 2018 | News, Overview of the social and humanitarian situation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Universal Declaration of Human Rights July 18 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of human rights activist Nelson Mandela. The Nelson Mandela Day was established by the United Nations in recognition of the...
Jul 13, 2018 | News, Overview of the social and humanitarian situation
Love for the Motherland is one of the most important moral feelings in the whole spectrum of emotions. This feeling is a sign of a person’s maturity, his/her aspirations for high ideals, their readiness to take responsibility not only for themselves, their families but also for their Fatherland...
Jul 6, 2018 | News, Overview of the social and humanitarian situation
War crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of human rights do not have a statute of limitations. This is enshrined in the international law: the UN Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity of 1968; the European Convention on...
Jun 29, 2018 | Events, News
Today, on 29 June, Chief Administrator of the DPR Ombudsman Office Andrey Kolomiytsev held a meeting with the Head of the Donetsk Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross Michel Saad. The meeting was devoted to the issue of providing humanitarian assistance to families of missing persons,...
Jun 29, 2018 | News, Overview of the social and humanitarian situation
Last week, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published the 22nd Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine (February 16 to May 15, 2018). Despite the fact that the document not as long as all the previous ones, the authors paid attention...
Jun 16, 2018 | Events, News
Yesterday, 15 June, DPR Ombudsman Office representatives and the ICRC awarded participants of the drawing contest for children called “My right to childhood”, which was held to coincide with the International Children’s Day. All the participants received creative sets. Authors of the best competition works received Certificate of Distinction...
Jun 15, 2018 | Comments and statements of the Ombudsman, News
Today, 15 June, the Human Rights Ombudsman in the Donetsk People’s Republic Daria Morozova held a working meeting with a Deputy Chair of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Tae-Ung Baik. Daria Morozova told about the present situation with regard to the search of persons who...
Jun 8, 2018 | News, Overview of the social and humanitarian situation
The United Nations Organization, adopting the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has defined freedom from torture as absolute, not subject to any restrictions under any circumstances. Thus, Article 5 of the Declaration reads: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...
Today, on 16 August, a regular meeting of a Republican Commission on Resettlement of Affected Persons took place, chaired by the Human Rights Ombudsman in the Donetsk People’s Republic Daria Morozova. At the meeting, the issue of creation and establishment of the corresponding statuses to Temporary Accommodation Centres/ Long-term...
In connection with the increase in the number of appeals to the Human Rights Ombudsman Office in the Donetsk People’s Republic on issues related to the recovery of debts for the consumed public utilities, we remind that citizens are obliged to pay for consumed electricity, water supply, and maintenance....
