The UN gave Ukraine 200 recommendations to improve the human rights situation
Ukraine received two hundred recommendations to improve the human rights situation within the framework of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council.
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Chairman of the Human Rights Information Center Tatyana Pechonchyk said this at a press conference on Monday, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports with reference to the Ukrinform publication.
“Ukraine received two hundred recommendations at the UN to improve the human rights situation,” Pechonchik said.
According to her, recommendations were provided by delegations of 70 member countries of the UN Human Rights Council during an interactive dialogue in Geneva, which took place on November 15.
“The most popular and important among the recommendations are the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, issues of judicial reform, issues of preventing torture, the independence of the Supreme Court, and we can also highlight the prevention of hate speech and discrimination,” said Deputy Minister of Justice Sergei Petukhov.
UN member states also called on Ukraine to ratify a number of international conventions, in particular the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
At the same time, most of the new recommendations to Ukraine concern various aspects of the fight against corruption and human trafficking, conditions for the free work of the media and civil society.
Petukhov stressed that the Ukrainian government will carefully consider all recommendations, and will also provide its position on them no later than March 2018, by the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council. After this, Ukraine will have 4 years to fulfill its obligations and report on their implementation during the next, fourth periodic review of the UN Human Rights Council.
Let us recall, as PolitNavigator reported, in December of this year the UN General Assembly is due to consider a draft Ukrainian resolution on human rights in Crimea.
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