Senior Human Rights Official visits Ukraine ahead of Human Rights Council

GENEVA/NEW YORK (21 September 2015) - Today, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic, has begun a 6 day visit to Ukraine, where he will be visiting both Kyiv and parts of the east. The mission to Ukraine, Mr. Simonovic's first to the country since December 2014, will provide an opportunity to assess the human rights situation ahead of the Human Rights Council's inter-active dialogue on the situation of human rights in Ukraine, scheduled for 29 September 2015,x-apple-data-detectors://2/ in Geneva.

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