Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied territories
of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and
the city of Sevastopol
A/RES/78/221
of temporarily controlled or occupied territories of Ukraine and the unprovoked
Russian war of aggression against Ukraine;
(s) To ensure the availability of education in the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar
languages, and stop the blocking of access to Ukrainian education;
(t) To respect the rights of the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine set out in the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, revoke immediately
the decision declaring the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People an extremist
organization and banning its activities, repeal the decision banning leaders of the
Mejlis from entering Crimea, repeal the sentences, including in absentia, against
Crimean Tatars and their leaders and immediately release those arbitrarily detained,
including the leaders of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, and refrain from
maintaining or imposing limitations on the ability of the Crimean Tatars to conserve
their representative institutions;
(u) To stop the illegal drafting and mobilization of residents of the temporarily
controlled or occupied territories of Ukraine into the armed forces of the Russian
Federation, stop pressure aimed at compelling residents of the temporarily controlled
or occupied territories of Ukraine to serve in the armed or auxiliary forces of the
Russian Federation, as well as using propaganda, also targeted at children and through
the education system, and ensure strict compliance with its international obligations
as an occupying Power;
(v) To end also the practice of criminal prosecution of inhabitants who resist
conscription and mobilization into the armed or auxiliary forces of the Russian
Federation;
(w) To end the practice of deporting Ukrainian citizens from the temporarily
controlled or occupied territories of Ukraine for not taking Russian citizenship, stop
transferring its own civilian population to the temporarily controlled or occupied
territories of Ukraine and end the practice of encouraging such transfers;
(x) To immediately and unconditionally reverse the decision to simplify the
procedure for obtaining citizenship of the Russian Federation for Ukrainian orphans
or children left without parental care;
(y) To provide to the relevant United Nations bodies and international
organizations a comprehensive list of the names and whereabouts of all Ukrainian
children who were forcibly transferred to the temporarily controlled or occupied
territories of Ukraine or deported to the Russian Federation, including on those who
were subsequently adopted or transferred to foster families, in order to ensure that
these children are provided protection and care in accordance with international law;
(z) To cease forcible transfers or deportation of Ukraine’s children and other
civilians and take all necessary steps with a view to their safe return and family
reunification in line with the best interests of the child and in accordance with
international law;
(aa) To cooperate fully and immediately with the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe and the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on
Ukraine, which must have safe, secure and unhindered access to the entire territory
of Ukraine, including the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, and the Council
of Europe on the situation of human rights in the territories of Ukraine under the
control of or temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation;
(bb) To create the conditions, as well as provide the means, to allow for the
voluntary, safe, dignified and unhindered return to their homes of all internally
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