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91.
The Working Group also recommends that the Government digitalize the
judicial system and the prisoners’ registry. An official up-to-date register of all persons
deprived of their liberty must be maintained in every place of detention, in accordance
with article 10 (3) of the Declaration.
4.
Reparations
92.
The Working Group recommends that the Government of Ukraine:
(a)
Develop, as a matter of urgency, a reparations policy that takes into
account the specific needs of women and children, and make adequate provisions for it;
(b)
Develop a gender-sensitive policy and plan of action to provide support to
and rehabilitation for families of forcibly disappeared persons, including specific
measures to support families of disappeared persons whose death has been confirmed
through truth-seeking processes.
(c)
Create a comprehensive system of reparations that includes professional
and victim-oriented psychosocial assistance for relatives of disappeared persons in
relation to the physical, mental and economic consequences resulting from the absence
of the disappeared person;
(d)
Ensure that the mechanisms created under the new Law on Missing
Persons for social and other allowances comply with international standards.
93.
The Working Group invites the Government of Ukraine to submit within 90 days
of the date of the presentation of the present report to the Human Rights Council a
timetable of the steps that it will take to implement the present recommendations.
B.
Self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” and “Luhansk People’s
Republic”
94.
The Working Group recommends that the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s
Republic” and “Luhansk People’s Republic”:
(a)
Lift restrictions on OHCHR operations;
(b)
Ensure unimpeded and confidential access by OHCHR and other
international observers to detainees and places of deprivation of liberty in the territory
under their control;
(c)
Repeal the systems of administrative and preventive detention in the
“Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s Republic”, as they allow for
the deprivation of liberty of a person without effective supervision, for 30 or 60 days
respectively, on the mere suspicion of involvement in certain illegal activities.
C.
Russian Federation, in relation to Crimea
95.
The Working Group recommends that the Russian Federation take measures to
ensure the protection of all residents in Crimea from enforced disappearance, and that
independent human rights monitoring missions be allowed to visit the region in order
to assess the situation.
D.
International community
96.
The Working Group recommends that the international community continue to
engage all parties involved to implement all obligations foreseen in the Minsk
agreements, in particular with regard to missing persons.
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