The Uzhhorod City Council violates the right of internally displaced Roma to housing and social protection. The resettled Roma sent an appeal to the Office of the Ombudsman of Ukraine, claiming discrimination on the basis of ethnicity. In the appeal, representatives of the national minority complain that the Uzhhorod City Council violates their rights to housing and social protection.

The applicants with their families and minor children are internally displaced citizens, so they currently live in the premises of the local multidisciplinary lyceum in Uzhgorod, in the Zakarpattia region. One of the displaced women has a newborn baby.

• Ужгородська міськрада порушує право ромів-переселенців на житло та соцзахист — Лубінець. In: Hromadske. 18.08.2023. https://hromadske.ua/posts/uzhgorodska-miskrada-porushuye-pravo-romiv-pereselenciv-na-zhitlo-ta-soczahist-lubinec