Ukrainian Human Rights Activists Send 12 ‘Shadow Reports’ to UN Member States

(Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukraine’s human rights organizations are planning to ask UN Member States to put pressure on the Ukrainian authorities to improve the human rights situation in the country.

“We will try to create political pressure from UN Member States so as to oblige the government to improve the human rights situation,” Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union Arkadiy Buschenko said at a press conference in Kyiv on April 23. He said that 40 human rights organizations in Ukraine had sent 12 “shadow reports” on various aspects of human rights to the United Nations. Buschenko said that the authors of reports not only described problems with human rights in Ukraine, but also suggested ways to address them.