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Ukraine

Citizenship and Country Documents

US Government Reports Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • ZZZ106331.E  - Russia and Ukraine: Issuance of Russian passports and citizenship rights to Ukraine citizens living in the territories of Crimea and Donbas [Donbass] (2014-February 2020) - Feb. 2020
    • UKR105819.E - Residence registration system including procedures and requirements to register; rights associated with registration; information recorded and who has access to registered information; penalties for unauthorized use of residence registration information  - July 2017
    • UKR104122.E - Residence registration system including procedures and requirements to register; rights associated with registration; information recorded and who has access to registered information; penalties for unauthorized use of residence registration information - Dec. 2012
    • UKR104123.E - Fraudulent documentation, including types of fraudulent documents available and their prevalence; how they are obtained; who is producing and distributing them; how documents are falsified; state efforts to counter their usage - Dec. 2012
    • UKR42973 - Significance of the automobile symbol stamped into passports when crossing the Ukrainian border; whether the stamp signifies that the vehicle is intended for import/export - Sep. 2004
    • UKR42598 - Procedure for obtaining a propiska; how and where residency information is stored; whether computer databases with personal residence information are available to police (2001 - Present) - May 2004

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Human Rights Watch Profile
    • We had no choice - "Filtration" and the crime of forcibly transferring Ukranian Civilians to Russia - September 2022

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Children

US Government Reports Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR102163 - Documentation required and procedures to be followed by a parent wishing to travel abroad with a minor child in the absence, or without the consent, of the second parent - Feb. 2007

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Human Rights Watch Profile
    • “Tanks On the Playground” Attacks on Schools and Military Use of Schools in Ukraine - Nov. 2023

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Corruption

 

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • International Crisis Group

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Disabilities

 

Foreign Government Reports

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR42282 - Situation of little people (dwarfs) in Ukraine and treatment by the general public; whether they are targeted by skinheads or nationalist groups; availability of state protection and state programmes benefiting little people - January 2004

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Amnesty International
    • Submission To The UN Committee On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities - July 2024

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Elections

Non-Government Organization Reports

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Ethnic Groups / Race

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR104175 - Treatment of ethnic minorities, including Roma; state protection - Sep. 2012
Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Minority Rights Group International
    • State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Groups - July 2016

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Ethnic Groups / Race - Armenians

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests
    • UKR42792 - Treatment of Armenians in Ukraine and availability of state protection - June 2004

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Ethnic Groups / Race - Jews

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR100402 - Information on the "Jewish Community of Kalush," including when the organization was founded; whether and when it was registered with the Ukrainian authorities; whether it had difficulties registering; whether the organization sought assistance from other Jewish organizations during its registration process; whether the founders/leaders of the organization had (and currently have) any problems with the authorities or the community due to their involvement; activities; affiliation to other Jewish organizations, including the synagogue in Ivano-Frankovsk (January 2000 - November 2005) - November 2005
    • UKR43145 - Update to UKR40328.E of 25 November 2002; the treatment of minorities (specifically Jews, homosexuals and Tatars) by the United National Assembly - Ukrainian Self-Defense Organization (UNA-UNSO) and information on state action taken against the UNA-UNSO for ill-treatment of minorities - Nov. 2004

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Ethnic Groups / Race - Roma

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR104175 - Treatment of ethnic minorities, including Roma; state protection - Sept. 2012

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

  • European Union Agency for Asylum
    • Ukraine - Situation of Roma from the Zakarpattia region - Dec. 2023

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Ethnic Groups / Race - Ethnic Russians

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR42354 - Treatment of Carpatho-Rusyns by authorities and society; state protection - Jan. 2004
Non-Government Organization Reports
  • World Directory of Minorities - Russian

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Ethnic Groups / Race - Crimean Tatars

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests
    • UKR43145 - Update to UKR40328.E of 25 November 2002; the treatment of minorities (specifically Jews, homosexuals and Tatars) by the United National Assembly - Ukrainian Self-Defense Organization (UNA-UNSO) and information on state action taken against the UNA-UNSO for ill-treatment of minorities - Nov. 2004

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Gender

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR103539 - Domestic violence including state protection available to victims; support services and availability of state-supported shelters; recourse available to women who are stalked or harassed by their former spouses - Aug. 2010
Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Amnesty International Profiles
    • Ukraine:  Not a Private Matter:  Domestic and Sexual Violence against Women in Eastern Ukraine – Nov. 2020
  • Human Rights Watch Profile
    • Women's Work: Discrimination Against Women in the Ukrainian Labor Force - Aug. 2003

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Human Rights

US Government Reports Foreign Government Report
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests
    • UKR42282 - Situation of little people (dwarfs) in Ukraine and treatment by the general public; whether they are targeted by skinheads or nationalist groups; availability of state protection and state programs benefiting little people - Jan. 2004
Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Amnesty International Annual Report - 2020
  • Amnesty International Reports
    • Russia/Ukraine: 10 years of occupation of Crimea Russia is seeking to effect demographic change while suppressing Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar identities - Mar. 2024
    • “I Used To Have A Home”: Older People’s Experience of War, Displacement, And Access To Housing in Ukraine - Dec. 2022
    • Ukraine: Crimea in the dark: The silencing of dissent - Dec. 2016
    • Anyone can die at anytime - Indiscriminate attacks by Russian forces in Kharkiv, Ukraine - August 2022 
  • Freedom House
  • Human Rights Watch Reports
    • Destroying Cultural Heritage Explosive Weapons’ Effects in Armed Conflict and Measures to Strengthen Protection - Apr. 2024
    • “Our City Was Gone” Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol, Ukraine - Feb. 2024
    • Buffeted in the Borderland - The Treatment of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Ukraine - Dec. 2010
  • International Crisis Group
    • "Nobody Wants Us": The Alienated Civilians of Eastern Ukraine - Oct. 2018

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Justice System

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests
    • UKR105399 - The new law on police and its effectiveness; recourse and state protection available to private citizens who have been the victims of criminal actions of police officers in Kiev (2014-January 2015) - January 2016
    • UKR42564 - Article 142.2 of the Ukrainian Penal Code that was in force in September 1996; penalties provided by this Article - April 2004
Non-Government Reports
  • Amnesty International
    • Russia/Ukraine: 10 years of occupation of Crimea Russia is seeking to effect demographic change while suppressing Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar identities - Mar. 2024
    • Ukraine: A Year after Euromaydan, justice delayed, justice denied – Feb. 2015
  • Human Rights Watch Profile
    • Studying Under Fire - Attacks on Schools, Military Use of Schools during the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine - February 2016
  • International Crisis Group

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Law

None Available

Maps


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Medical Availability

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR104121.E - the structure and administration of the health system; access to health care throughout Ukraine; ability of people to access their medical records and procedures for doing so; who has access to medical records; the types of medical documents and their contents; falsification of medical documents; whether medical staff are legally required to report instances of violence to the police - January 2013
    • UKR103557 - Obligations of medical personnel or institutions to file reports with authorities when a victim of assault or other crime is treated - Aug. 2010
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
  • World Health Organization Page
Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Human Rights Watch Report
    • Uncontrolled Pain: Ukraine's Obligation to Ensure Evidence-Based Palliative Care - May 2011

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Political Figures and Parties

US Government Reports Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR105554.E - Information on the Right Sector, including affiliated groups and activities; involvement in eastern Ukraine; relations with authorities (2013-July 2016) - July 2016
    • UKR104918.E - Ukraine: Situation of Yanukovych's opponents since the Euromaidan events, including high-profile individuals and journalists; state protection offered to them (2013-June 2014) - July 2014
    • UKR100683 - Whether supporters or members of opposition parties are subject to mistreatment by the current administration of Viktor Iouchtchenko or by the police or other state organ; whether members or supporters of Julia Tymoshenko's party or bloc are at any risk; whether supporters of the previous regime are at risk (December 2004 - December 2005) - Dec. 2005
    • UKR42849 - Ideology, goals, organization and activities of the Ukrainian Nationalist Assembly-Ukrainian Nationalist Self-Defense Organization (UNA-UNSO); treatment of UNA-UNSO members by the authorities (January 1999 - August 2004) - Aug. 2004
Non-Government Organization Reports
  • International Crisis Group

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Refugees / IDPs

Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Human Rights Watch Profile
    • Buffeted in the Borderland - The Treatment of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Ukraine - Dec. 2010
    • On the Margins Rights Violations against Migrants and Asylum Seekers at the New Eastern Border of the European Union - Nov. 2005
  • Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
    • Advancing Disability-Inclusive Action On Internal Displacement - Nov. 2022
  • Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
    • Destruction and Displacement in Ukraine: The Cost to Civilians Two Years On - Feb. 2024
    • Equality versus equity. How complementary approaches are required to support vulnerable Ukrainian refugees - Nov. 2022

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

  • European Union Agency for Asylum 
    • Voices in Europe: Experiences, hopes, and aspirations of forcibly displaced persons from Ukraine - Mar. 2024 
  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees 
    • Weekly fact sheet on the situation of Ukrainian refugees (as of 6 November 2023) - Nov. 2023
    • UNHCR POSITION ON VOLUNTARY RETURN TO UKRAINE - June 2023
    • International Protection Considerations Related to the Developments in Ukraine – Update III - September 2015

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Religion

US Government Reports
  • State Department International Religious Freedom Report -
Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR104393.E - Information on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, including structure and hierarchy; information on the dispute between the Kyiv and Moscow Patriarchates (2012-April 2013) - v May 2013
    • UKR42708 - Whether conscientious objection on the basis of religion is a ground for exemption from military service; the list of religions in which membership permits exemption from military service; recourse offered by the military to a person whose alternative service is cancelled on the basis that he is discovered to be an Evangelical Christian-Baptist - July 2004
 

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Sexual Orientation

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR104177 - Treatment of sexual minorities, including legislation, state protection and support services - Dec. 2012
    • UKR100977 - Impact of anti-Semitic acts in Ukraine on the lives of members of the Jewish communities in Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa; whether members of the Jewish communities in Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa feel "persecuted" (February 2006) - Feb. 2006
    • UKR43145 - Update to UKR40328.E of 25 November 2002; the treatment of minorities (specifically Jews, homosexuals and Tatars) by the United National Assembly - Ukrainian Self-Defense Organization (UNA-UNSO) and information on state action taken against the UNA-UNSO for ill-treatment of minorities - Nov. 2004

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Amnesty International
    • Russia/Ukraine: 10 years of occupation of Crimea Russia is seeking to effect demographic change while suppressing Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar identities - Mar. 2024
    • Northing to Be Proud of: Discrimination Against LGBTI People in Ukraine – July 2014
  • Human Rights Watch Profile
    • Rhetoric and Risk - Human Rights Abuses Impeding Ukraine's Fight Against HIV/AIDS - March 2006

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Specific Country Issues - Organized Crime

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR104176.E - Crime situation, including organized crime; police and state response; availability of witness protection - Sept. 2012 

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Specific Country Issues - Military Service

US Government Reports

  • Congressional Research Services

    • Ukrainian Military Performance and Outlook - Dec. 2023

Foreign Government Reports

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • UKR43145 - Update to UKR40328.E of 25 November 2002; the treatment of minorities (specifically Jews, homosexuals and Tatars) by the United National Assembly - Ukrainian Self-Defense Organization (UNA-UNSO) and information on state action taken against the UNA-UNSO for ill-treatment of minorities - Nov. 2004

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Specific Country Issues - Ukraine: Arm Conflict, Crimea, Donetsk & Luhansk

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada RIR
    • ZZZ106331.E - Russia and Ukraine: Issuance of Russian passports and citizenship rights to Ukraine citizens living in the territories of Crimea and Donbas [Donbass] (2014-February 2020) - Feb. 2020

Non-Government Reports

  • Amnesty International
    • Russia/Ukraine: 10 years of occupation of Crimea Russia is seeking to effect demographic change while suppressing Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar identities - Mar. 2024
  • Human Rights Watch
    • Destroying Cultural Heritage Explosive Weapons’ Effects in Armed Conflict and Measures to Strengthen Protection - Apr. 2024
  • International Crisis Group
    • A Fraught Path Forward for Ukraine’s Liberated Territories - July 2024

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Speech / Press / Internet

Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Amnesty International Report
    • Ukraine: Crimea in the dark: The silencing of dissent - Dec. 2016
    • "Children' - The attack on the Donetsk regional academic drama theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine - August 2022
  • Human Rights Watch Profile -
    • Negotiating the News: Informal State Censorship of Ukrainian Television - March 2003
  • Freedom House

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Timeline

Trafficking

US Government Reports

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons - Eastern Europe and Central Asia - 2009

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Terrorism

Not Available


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Torture

Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Amnesty International Report
    • Breaking Bodies – Torture and summary killings in Eastern Ukraine – May 2015
    • Abductions and torture in Eastern Ukraine – July 2014
  • Council of Europe
    • Response of the Ukrainian Government to the report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on its visit to Ukraine - Sept. 2009

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Updated July 26, 2024