Apr 19, 2019 | News, Overview of the social and humanitarian situation
On April 18, 2019, in the course of a scheduled video conference, the Trilateral Contact Group on the peaceful resolution in Donbass could not agree on the conditions for renewing the parties’ obligations to impose a comprehensive and unconditional armistice on the eve of Holy Resurrection. Representatives of the official Kiev refused to discuss...
Apr 19, 2019 | Comments and statements of the Ombudsman, Detention, Media, News
Human Rights Ombudsman of the Donetsk People’s Republic Daria Morozova told she wrote requests to the ICRC, the OSCE and the bureau of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission, as information on a secret prison in Mariupol emerged. Earlier, at the press conference in Moscow, a former officer of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Prosorov...
Mar 29, 2019 | News, Overview of the social and humanitarian situation
25 years ago, on March 27, 1994, at the time of the first parliamentary elections in Ukraine, a referendum was held in the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, formally named a “consultative poll”, despite the fact that it was organized and held by the regional councils based on the Law of Ukraine “On the All-Ukrainian and local...
Mar 22, 2019 | News, Overview of the social and humanitarian situation
According to the decision of the United Nations General Assembly, March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, dedicated to a negative phenomenon that is still a concern in many countries around the world. The relevant Resolution adopted in 1966 provides for that racial discrimination should be considered a...
Mar 15, 2019 | News, Overview of the social and humanitarian situation
On March 14, on the eve of the Day of workers of housing and communal services, government representatives and residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic observed a minute of silence and laid flowers at the Memorial in the centre of Donetsk to pay tribute to the memory of utility workers who died performing their professional duties.Since...
Feb 26, 2019 | Detention, News
Daughters of a DPR serviceman, who live in Kiev-held territory, were subject to pressure and harassment by staff of Ukrainian special services. They tried to find out some information about their father. The serviceman of the DPR People’s Militia Vitaly Mishchenko told about this in DAN press centre. Mishchenko said that in the evening of...
Feb 21, 2019 | Comments and statements of the Ombudsman, Media, News
In an interview to a correspondent of the DPR official website, Human Rights Ombudsman Daria Morozova spoke on the statistics of human rights violations in Ukraine, the response of the world community and the prospects for further development of the situation. “There are problems such as violation of the rights of detainees, the right to a fair...
Feb 19, 2019 | Detention, News
Last week, an appeal on arrest of a man born in 1983 was filed with the Human Rights Ombudsman in the Donetsk People’s Republic. At the moment, the man is reportedly in custody of Artemovsk remand prison (SIZO). According to the latest data, the Ukrainian side is holding 253 persons, including 101 persons whose presence in the territory of...
The overview of the current social and humanitarian situation, within the territory of the Donetsk People`s Republic as a result of hostilities