IDPs need additional protection, we will pass recommendations to Chernyshev - Lubinets

Internally displaced persons need additional protection from the state, and there are shortcomings on the part of the executive branch of government regarding IDPs. This opinion was expressed by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets during a briefing, reports UNN. 

Lubinets commented on the reaction of the Cabinet of ministers and the prime minister to the comments on the implementation of the state policy strategy for IDPs until 2025. 

"Regarding my powers, I make recommendations, send letters of recommendation to the Ukrainian government. They are often taken into account in their work. In my opinion, IDPs need additional protection from the state, protection of their rights. In my opinion, we have a huge problem," Lubinets said.

He recalled that the concept of protecting the rights of persons affected by the armed aggression of the Russian Federation was recently presented . First of all, we are talking about IDPs. 

"It seems to me that there are shortcomings on the part of the executive branch of government regarding internally displaced persons," the Ombudsman said. 

Lubinets said that the Commissioner's Office plans to organize a working group with the team of the newly appointed deputy prime minister of Ukraine-Minister of national unity Oleksiy Chernyshev.

"I hope that with the arrival of a new deputy prime minister (Chernyshev-Ed.)... I have seen public information that now he will also be responsible for protecting the rights of IDPs. We will send recommendations to him. We are waiting for the first stage of team formation to take place. Then a working meeting will definitely be organized, where we will show where, in our opinion, there are shortcomings and our recommendations, how urgently this issue can be resolved," Lubinets said.

He is convinced that the state should show IDPs that there is a long-term strategy for the reintegration of IDPs. 

"These are housing programs, programs for extending financial and social assistance, and employment assistance. We see a lot of positive things at the level of local United territorial communities," Lubinets said.

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The Verkhovna Rada has appointed the head of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshev to the post of deputy prime minister of Ukraine-Minister of national unity.

The Cabinet of ministers decided to rename the Ministry for the reintegration of temporarily occupied territories to the Ministry of national unity of Ukraine, which is now headed by Oleksiy Chernyshov.

context 

In the summer, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets criticized the government's policy on internally displaced persons (IDPs), noting that the current IDP strategy until 2025 contains declarative tasks that are difficult to assess.