(Exerpt from issue n°5, 2024)

OMBUDSPERSONS OF TWO COUNTRIES BRING UKRAINE CLOSER TO EU INTEGRATION!

In May, the Ombudsman of Ukraine, Mr. Dmytro Lubinets, and the Ombudsman of Romania, Ms. Renate Weber, visited the two countries together. The goal was to exchange information and experience on the observance of the rights of national communities in Ukraine and Romania, which is one of the issues on Ukraine’s path to EU integration

OBSERVANCE OF RIGHTS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES IS A PRIORITY!

In June 2023, the Commissioner initiated a pilot project to document members of the Roma national minority in Zakarpattia. It is part of the Council of Europe project «Support to Reforms of the Legal Framework for National Minorities and Resilience of National Minorities and Roma in Ukraine».

With the cooperation of all participants in the pilot project (both state authorities and civil society*), representatives of the Roma national minority who have not received a passport of a citizen of Ukraine for one reason or another are being documented.

In the first half of 2024, joint efforts were made to:

█ collect and process dossiers on 302 members of the Roma national community;

█ 76 people were documented with passports of Ukrainian citizens. !The documentation process is still ongoing and requires further targeted work

(The full brief is available on demand at the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights)