Dear colleagues,

you can find the report "Ukraine: problems with implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" at the URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx1OYsnqR4-FdmhZOEhNOUQ4TnA0MS1WUUlTaXJoNG96Z2dR/view

This report is prepared by the Coalition for Personal Autonomy to help the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to prepare "list of issues prior to reporting" (LOIPR), the response to which will constitute Ukraine’s report
under article 16 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The submission covers near hundred problems with implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with special attention to the problems of: human rights crisis and oppression of personal autonomy in Ukraine; lack of
legal safeguards to protect rights guaranteed by the Covenant; lack of legal information and public dialogue on human rights issues; militarization of Ukrainian economy, society, culture, repressions against pacifists and conscientious objectors; unfair
distribution of public goods; problems with the registration of religious organizations and discrimination of small religious groups; lack of access to higher education for prisoners and unemployment after serving a sentence; arbitrary deprivation of
access to the profession of lawyer and threats of the monopoly of the Bar; poverty among working people; decline of patient autonomy in the mental health system; deprivation of language autonomy; governmental attacks on academic freedom, problems of
financing and monopolistic assessment of the scientific research.

Sincerely,

Yurii Sheliazhenko
Master of Laws
Head of NGO Autonomous Advocacy
Tverskyi Tupyk Street, Building 9, Room 82,
Kyiv, 01042, Ukraine
+380 (97) 317-93-26

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