The Committee encourages the State party to sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Committee also
encourages the State party to consider signing and ratifying the Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families and the International
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, as well as the
individual complaint mechanisms under various core human rights treaties which the State
party has not accepted with a view to further strengthening the protection of human rights by
providing rights holders with additional opportunities to claim their rights at the international
level when domestic remedies have been exhausted.
The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding observations
widely among all levels of society, particularly among government officials, members of the
Verkhovna Rada and judicial authorities, and to inform the Committee on all steps taken to
implement them in its next periodic report. It also encourages the State party to engage nongovernmental organizations and other members of civil society in the process of discussion at
the national level prior to the submission of its next periodic report.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its common core document in accordance with
the harmonized guidelines on a common core document (HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6, chap. I).
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Ratify international human rights instruments to which Ukraine is not yet party. These include,
the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance;
the international Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of their families; the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights; the third optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the
Child; the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; the 1954 Convention relating to the
Status of Stateless Persons; and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
Implement
recommendations of international human rights mechanisms. The
recommendations and concerns expressed in the past few years by several human rights
mechanisms continue to be of relevance and should be taken into account by the authorities
when considering various reforms that will greatly impact on the protection of human rights for
all people in Ukraine:
f. In particular, the UN Human Rights Committee issued several important recommendations in
July 2013 when it considered the latest periodic report of Ukraine on the implementation of
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
g. The recommendations adopted by the UN Human Rights Council following the Universal
Periodic Review of the human rights situation in Ukraine in October 2012 should also be
taken into consideration.
h. The report of the UN Sub-Committee on the Prevention of Torture following its visit to
Ukraine in 2011 should be made public immediately and taken into consideration by the
authorities when considering issues related to torture, ill-treatment, and detention related
matters.
i. Ukraine has issued a standing invitation to special procedures. It should accommodate
requests for such visits.
Encourage the development of a national human rights action plan, with clear timelines and
benchmarks, addressing every recommendation resulting from the international and regional
HR systems to be implemented within a certain time-frame - with the support of the
international community, regional and bilateral actors, and the UN system.
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To the Government of Ukraine and other stakeholders:
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