Ukraine’s new government should intensify efforts to protect the rights of older Ukrainians living in nongovernment-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to President Volodymyr Zelensky that was released today. Ukraine should end discriminatory policies and practices that affect the way older people living in those areas can access and collect their pensions.
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Human Rights Watch: Pension issues, crossing conditions in Donbas
People walk across a destroyed bridge into Ukraine-controlled territory at a checkpoint guarded by Russian-backed separatists in Stanytsia Luhanska, Lugansk region, on March 7, 2017.
