Past attacks against Roma werse not effectively investigated, including the destruction of a campsite and physical violence against Roma at Lysa Hora park in Kyiv in August 2018. In August, the Prosecutor General’s Office informed Amnesty International that it had overruled a decision to halt the investigation, but no further progress was reported." ILO, Assessment of the Social Security Responses to COVID-19, 2021 "All the seven countries have already attained a reasonably wide population coverage of health care. Ukraine has a tax-financed national health system, and the rest of countries finance health care services through social health insurance. Compared with other branches of social security that provide income security benefits, the health insurance coverage of these countries goes beyond the workers in the formal economy, largely due to the State subsidy of certain categories of economically inactive population such as dependent family members, beneficiaries of social assistance, and registered unemployed. There are still groups excluded from coverage, such as those solely informally employed, the unregistered unemployed, and Roma population in some of the countries. […] Among other excluded groups one has to mention Roma population who are usually excluded from access to health care and social services in most of the countries in the region. […] We have not addressed the particular situation of Roma population during the COVID-19 crisis, but their exclusion from the access to health care raised alarming concerns already years ago." OHCHR, Human Rights Council Holds Interactive Dialogue on Human Rights in Ukraine and High-level Interactive Dialogue on Human Rights in the Central African Republic, 22 March 2021 "NADA AL-NASHIF, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, noted that since the outbreak of COVID19, its impacts were being monitored and vulnerable groups such as the Roma community were experiencing knock on effects on standards of living. The economic and social rights of the affected population in eastern Ukraine were significantly negatively impacted by the conflict and this was exacerbated by COVID-19." UNWFP, 2021 Global Report on Food Crises, 2021 "In Ukraine (Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts), widespread COVID-19 infections continue. Severe movement restrictions will further increase the affected population’s vulnerabilities, hitting residents in Non Government Controlled Areas (NGCA) particularly hard. The 'contact line' is expected to remain substantially closed until summer 2021. Economic recovery in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts seems unlikely in 2021 (OCHA, February 2021). The measures adopted to contain the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to have strong socio-economic impacts on vulnerable people, particularly the elderly who account for almost 40 percent of the total population in need. People residing in the NGCA are the most affected, as they need to cross the 'contact line' to access social and financial services, including withdrawing their pensions." UNICEF, How UNICEF is helping to prevent COVID-19 in Roma communities, 13 January 2021 "Roma families in Ukraine have been particularly vulnerable due to limited access to hygiene products, clean water and electricity, as well as a high poverty rate. The Roma settlement in the village of Kholmok is home to around 700 people. Similar settlements, which the Roma people call ‘tabors’ (camps), are located throughout the Zakarpattia region. The Roma are the fifth largest national minority in this region, with estimates ranging from 80,000 to 150,000 since not all possess passports and birth certificates. “Many people in our tabor work at a garment factory, many sweep the streets, work as janitors, but most are unemployed,” says Angela, who lives in a Roma settlement in one of the districts of Uzhhorod. She 40