speech and hate crimes against members of vulnerable and minority groups, including Roma, Hungarians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Crimean Tatars and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender CCPR/C/UKR/CO/8 4 and intersex persons […] In particular, it notes with concern the slow pace of the investigations and lack of convictions in respect of the attacks on Roma settlements in Kyiv, Ternopil and Lviv in 2018 and the attacks that occurred in 2019 against seven members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community participating in a pride event in Kyiv […]" Council of Europe, ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES, Fifth Report submitted by Ukraine Pursuant to Article 25, paragraph 2 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities – received on 10 January 2022, 10 January 2022 "Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, the Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveler […] On 26–28 April 2017, Ukraine hosted its first ever International Thematic Visit of the AdHoc Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveler Issues (CAHROM), which was held to share experiences of implementing national Strategies for the Roma national minority. […] The DESS also participated in the work of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveler Issues (ADI- ROM) to incorporate relevant international experience. The draft Strategy was published on the DESS official website (https://dess.gov.ua/roma-strategy)." OHCHR, Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue on the situation of human rights in Libya, 18 June 2020 "Speakers asked what the Deputy High Commissioner’s assessment of the conditions of detention in Ukraine was. Some speakers said that the Ukrainian authorities had systematically failed to bring to justice people who perpetrated violations of Roma’s human rights." Al Jazeera, 'Attacked and Abandoned: Ukraine’s Forgotten Roma' 23 November 2018 “Lesia Kharchenko, from Amnesty International, tracked the tweets that followed, “Roma people were just taken out of their homes and they had to run away. They were attacked by a group of young people who had gas sprays and other things, but because nobody had died at that time, there was not a lot of reaction from the state and then there were other attacks.” “However, the alarming truth is that, on a number of other occasions, not only have the police stood by and allowed such attacks to take place but, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in some cases, they have actually participated.” “A recent OHCHR paper entitled Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine describes raids on Roma communities during which “police were physically aggressive; beating people, damaging or destroying private possessions, and treating the Roma in a humiliating manner.” OHCHR, Update on Ukraine under item 10, 25 September 2018 "However, as next year’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections approach, we are seriously concerned about the accelerating erosion of civic space, which includes evidence of increasingly violent attacks against members of the Roma community, civic activists and against lawyers in high profile cases. We also remain concerned by the continuing aggressive interference in the parades and assemblies of the LGBTQI community. Law enforcement entities and local governments should 33