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Amendment No. 13 | Doc. 14139 | 11 October 2016
Legal remedies for human rights violations on the Ukrainian territories outside the control of the Ukrainian authorities
In the draft resolution, after paragraph 10, insert the following paragraph:
"The Assembly is concerned that derogation from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights has resulted in a lower level of protection of the rights guaranteed by these instruments."
Explanatory note
Ukraine proclaimed derogations from certain obligations imposed by the ECHR and ICCPR; Amongst these derogations is a category of rights defined by United Nations Human Rights Committee as non-derogable, namely lawfulness of arrest. According to the European Court on Human Rights, each separate request is evaluated according to the lawfulness of the derogation sought.