Ukraine

UN refugee agency concerned at attacks on foreigners in Ukraine

8 June 2007
Reacting to reports of attacks on foreigners in Ukraine, the United Nations refugee agency today acknowledged steps taken by the Government to address the problem while urging action to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice.

Freedom of expression increases in Ukraine despite intimidation – UN expert

23 May 2007
While democracy and free expression have increased in Ukraine in the past few years, journalists are still subject to intimidation by individuals said to be linked to authorities, an independent United Nations expert said today.
Kofi Annan

Ukraine: Annan hails plans for presidential re-vote

10 December 2004
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed steps taken by Ukraine's Parliament paving the way for a run-off to the country's contested presidential election.
Kofi Annan

Annan repeats call for restraint in Ukraine over election crisis

29 November 2004
Repeating his call for restraint, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged all parties in Ukraine to avoid worsening the tumult over the disputed presidential elections in that country.
Kofi Annan

Following election impasse, Annan urges all sides in Ukraine to exercise restraint

24 November 2004
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his concern about developments in Ukraine, where a tense situation has emerged following the run-off Presidential election.

HIV/AIDS spread, iodine deficiency threaten young Ukrainians, UNICEF says

11 May 2004
Ukraine is being threatened by an HIV/AIDS epidemic, fuelled more by injecting narcotics than by unsafe sex, while the increase in HIV prevalence has shot up by 1,300 per cent in five years across Eastern Europe, the chief of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today.

Ukraine: UN-backed survey finds crisis in standards of living

16 February 2004
Poverty and insecurity are prevailing in Ukraine, where workers earn less than $100 per capita, and 40 per cent are owed a backlog of wages, according to a new study by the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO).

Ukraine's transition poses different challenges for men and women - UN report

27 January 2004
Ukrainian women face a society that disempowers them and strongly supports patriarchal values, while men have assumed heavy socioeconomic burdens that may shorten their life spans significantly, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says in a new report.
Amb. Kuchinsky of Ukraine

Exhibition on 70th anniversary of Ukraine famine caused by Stalin opens at UN

11 November 2003
An exhibit on the 70th anniversary of the great famine in Ukraine, which took millions of lives due to the forced collectivization policies of Joseph Stalin, has opened at United Nations headquarters in New York with several speakers calling the tragedy a dark page in world history.

Annan begins official visit to Ukraine, discusses global hotspots with President Kuchma

3 June 2002
On his first-ever visit to Ukraine, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today met with President Leonid Kuchma to discuss the country’s role in the United Nations as well as trouble spots around the world.