HIV/AIDS also continue to experience social exclusion. […] In 2015, parliament showed strong resistance before giving in to an EU conditionality requiring workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation to be banned Some ethnic minorities, such as the Roma, experience social exclusion. Social exclusion of the Roma population entails exclusion from education, the labor market and social services". Human Rights Watch, World Report 2022: Ukraine, 13 January 2022 "The armed conflict in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine continued to pose a grave threat to civilian safety and impede access to food, adequate housing, and schools. Covid-19 pandemic-related travel restrictions, introduced by Russia-backed armed groups and the government, blocked access to health care and pensions and worsened hardships for the already impoverished population of the conflictaffected Donbas. Armed groups forcibly disappeared, tortured, and arbitrarily detained civilians and repeatedly denied some of them access to urgent medical care. A bill reforming Ukraine’s notoriously abusive security service advanced in parliament despite human rights concerns. Members of groups advocating hate and discrimination continued putting ethnic minorities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and rights activists at risk, subjecting them to physical attacks and hate speech. […] Roma people remained a target of online hate speech and occasional physical violence. In April, local media published a video from the meeting of the Ivano-Frankivsk mayor with local police, where he ordered them to “move Roma people back to Zakarpattya.” […] No progress has been made in ensuring accountability for the 2017 murder of Mykola Kaspitsky, the leader of Roma community in Kharkiv region. In January the case was closed for the fourth time. Throughout the year, activists raised concerns over the police allegedly sabotaging the case." OHCHR, Deputy High Commissioner to Human Rights Council: Deteriorating Security Situation in Eastern Ukraine Has Seen an Increase in Civilian Casualties and Damage to Civilian Objects Resulting from Active Hostilities, 5 October 2021 "Ms. Al-Nashif said that in the context of the administration of justice in Ukraine, the report found that violations of the right to a fair trial and liberty in conflict-related criminal cases continued through the unlawful application of flagrante arrests without court warrants and the denial of prompt access to legal aid. The adoption on 20 May 2021 of a law which harmonised the definitions of international crimes in line with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was welcomed. However, the Office of the High Commissioner was concerned that the law had not yet been signed by the President. In civic space, attacks against journalists were also noted, as well as against human rights defenders, environmental activists, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people or their supporters, and members of national minorities. Hate speech was also directed against Roma, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, women, persons with disabilities and people perceived to have pro-Russian views." OHCHR, 48th session of the Human Rights Council Agenda Item 10: Interactive dialogue on oral update on Ukraine, 5 October 2021 "OHCHR documented 22 cases of threats and attacks against journalists and other media workers, human rights defenders, environmental activists, LGBTI people or their supporters, and members of national minorities. Hate speech was also directed against Roma, LGBTI persons, women, persons with disabilities and people perceived to have pro-Russian views. It is imperative that the authorities effectively investigate each such incident in full acknowledgement of any bias motives." OHCHR, Agenda Item 10: Interactive dialogue on oral update on Ukraine, 22 March 2021 "OHCHR is concerned about continuing attacks infringing upon the freedom of expression and opinion. Over the reporting period, OHCHR documented eighteen cases of threats and attacks against 27