OSCE Report on the Human Rights and Minority Rights Situation

Ukraine, Human Rights Assessment Mission: Report on the Human Rights and Minority Rights Situation

March-April 2014

OSCE


The HCNM HRAM found that the situation concerning minority rights has not changed significantly in recent months, although underlying shortcomings regarding both the legal framework for rights of persons belonging to national minorities and implementation of its provisions remain. These long-standing issues have gained greater urgency, as immediate concerns of security, stability and predictability have emerged. The most dramatic changes in the situation of minorities and their enjoyment of human, including minority, rights have occurred in Crimea, particularly affecting ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, who find themselves in a very precarious situation.

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