A/HRC/40/CRP.3 Contents Page I. Executive summary ................................................................................................................................ 4 II. OHCHR methodology............................................................................................................................ 6 III. Impact of hostilities ................................................................................................................................ 7 A. Conduct of hostilities and civilian casualties ................................................................................ 7 B. Civilian casualties in 2018 ............................................................................................................ 8 C. Civilian casualties during the entire conflict period ...................................................................... 9 D. Economic and social rights of conflict-affected persons ............................................................. 10 IV. Right to physical integrity .................................................................................................................... 14 A. Access to detainees and places of detention ................................................................................ 14 B. Arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and abduction, torture and ill-treatment ............... 14 C. Situation of pre-conflict prisoners ............................................................................................... 16 V. Accountability and administration of justice....................................................................................... 18 A. Administration of justice ............................................................................................................. 18 B. Accountability for human rights violations in eastern Ukraine ................................................... 20 C. Accountability for cases of violence related to riots and public disturbances ............................. 20 VI. Democratic/civic space and fundamental freedoms ............................................................................. 21 A. Freedom of opinion and expression and freedom of the media................................................... 22 B. Freedom of peaceful assembly and association........................................................................... 22 C. Freedom of religion or belief ...................................................................................................... 23 D. Discrimination, hate speech, racially-motivated violence and manifestations of intolerance ..... 24 VII. Human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation ................................................................................. 24 A. International Humanitarian Law violations ................................................................................. 25 B. Administration of justice, intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders ................... 25 C. Freedoms of religion, opinion and expression ............................................................................ 26 D. Illegal population transfers and freedom of movement ............................................................... 27 E. Forced conscription ..................................................................................................................... 28 VIII. Technical cooperation and capacity-building....................................................................................... 29 IX. 2 Conclusions and recommendations ...................................................................................................... 29