Human Rights Organizations Analyzed Draft Laws Concerning the Ban on Evicting IDPs from Transit Centers
The Coalition of Organizations working to protect the rights of people affected by the armed aggression against Ukraine, which includes the EAST SOS Charity Foundation, analyzed draft laws No. 14219 and No. 14219-1, registered by the Verkhovna Rada in November last year.
Both draft laws seek to ban the eviction of internally displaced persons from collective sites. However, according to human rights advocates, neither of them offers long-term housing solutions for people who were forced to leave their homes because of the war.
The analysis notes that resettling IDPs from collective sites creates better opportunities for integration into host hromadas (communities.) At the same time, legally normalizing long-term residence in collective sites may lead to the formation of closed communities and make it harder for people to integrate and build independent lives in a new place.
Human rights advocates emphasize:
Collective sites cannot be considered a long-term housing solution. By their nature, they are an emergency response tool and cannot provide decent living conditions. In general, living conditions in collective sites do not meet the criteria of safety, privacy, or suitability for long-term or permanent residence.
The full analysis of the draft laws and experts’ conclusions is available below.
Recently, human rights organizations appealed to the Government of Ukraine regarding the mass suspension of pension payments in January 2026 and called for urgent measures to restore them.
