Ukraine | HCRW

Ukraine regularly submits data on hate crimes to ODIHR. In 2019, the National Police of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Affairs worked with ODIHR to publish an information booklet on Categorizing and Investigating Hate Crimes in Ukraine: A Practical Guide. Ukraine's National Human Rights Strategy includes an objective to "create a system for preventing, combating, documenting and investigating hate crimes". In 2020, a working group co-ordinated by the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament was created to improve hate crime recording procedures.

SELECT YEAR

Download the 2013 hate crime report for Ukraine

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2023	Not available	Not available	Not available
2022	150	Not available	Not available
2021	Not available	Not available	Not available
2020	203	170	6
2019	256	235	4
2018	178	149	6
2017	163	94	3
2016	144	76	2
2015	157	79	3
2014	33	33	2
2013	Not available	Not available	Not available
2012	3	2	Not available
2011	5	Not available	Not available
2010	5	Not available	Not available
2009	2	Not available	Not available

Hate crime recorded by police

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes – in the context of the disparity between reported official and IGO/NGO information on Ukraine – that reliable data can only be collected through mechanisms that capture all cases reported to law enforcement, and that victims should be encouraged to report hate crimes.

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

In its “Concluding Observations on the Seventh Periodic Report of Ukraine”, the United Nations Human Rights Committee expressed concerns about the infrequent use of Article 161 of the Criminal Code (on inciting ethnic, racial or religious animosity or hatred) and that hate crimes are instead prosecuted under hooliganism charges. The Committee recommended that the state step up efforts to investigate and properly prosecute the perpetrators of hate crimes.