The coming winter is set to make life harder for the more than 5 million people living in eastern Ukraine’s conflict areas, many of whom are already struggling to survive, the office of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights wrote in a new report released Monday.
“The conflict is in its ninth month, and the situation is becoming increasingly dire for the population still living in the east,” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said in a statement. Acts of sexual violence, torture, abduction for ransom and forced labor are all being committed in Ukraine by …read more
Source: Newsweek
