ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS .............................................................................................................................................9 OPENING STATEMENT OF THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS .................... 13 CHAPTER 1. OBSERVING SOCIAL RIGHTS ...............................................................................................17 1.1. Right to social protection .......................................................................................................................................... 20 1.2. Right to healthcare ...................................................................................................................................................... 34 1.3. Right to work.................................................................................................................................................................. 40 1.4. Right to education ....................................................................................................................................................... 46 1.5. Right to culture ............................................................................................................................................................. 50 CHAPTER 2. OBSERVING ECONOMIC RIGHTS .........................................................................................53 2.1. Right to housing ........................................................................................................................................................... 56 2.2. Consumer rights ........................................................................................................................................................... 58 2.3. Right to land ................................................................................................................................................................... 61 2.4. Right to a safe environment ..................................................................................................................................... 63 2.5. Right to entrepreneurship ........................................................................................................................................ 66 CHAPTER 3. OBSERVING THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD .............................................................................69 3.1. Rights of the child in alternative care system .................................................................................................... 71 3.2. Right of the child and family in the context of decentralization................................................................. 76 3.3. Right of the child in the context of an armed conflict .................................................................................... 83 3.4. Counterring bullying and observing the right of the child on the Internet ........................................... 86 CHAPTER 4. OBSERVING THE RIGHTS OF MILITARY SERVANTS, POLICE OFFICERS, RETIREES OF MILITARY SERVICE, VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS .......................................89 4.1. Rights of military servants......................................................................................................................................... 91 4.2. Rights of Ukrainian military servants in captivity ............................................................................................. 95 4.3. Gender issues in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations and law enforcement agencies ....................................................................................................................................... 99 4.4. Rights of persons receiving a pension in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On Pensions to Persons Released from Military Service and Certain Other Persons,” as well as of war and service veterans ........................................................................................................................100 CHAPTER 5. OBSERVING RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF PERSONS WHO SUFFERED TEMPORARY OCCUPATION AND ARMED CONFLICT ...................................................................................................103 5.1. Right of conflict-affected civilians to social protection ................................................................................105 5.2. Restitution. Right to housing and compensation for property/material damage to civilians affected by armed conflict ........................................................................................................................111 5.3. Rights of citizens of Ukraine living in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol ...............................................................114 5.4. Right of citizens of Ukraine living in the temporarily occupied territories to freedom of movement .......................................................................................................................................................................119 7