UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights monitoring team arriving this week in Ukraine hopes to travel quickly to Crimea, where concerns have been raised over treatment of opposition activists and ethnic minorities, a top senior U.S. human rights official said on Wednesday.
The Crimean region, newly annexed by Russia, urgently needs independent monitors to report on human rights violations, Ivan Simonovic, the U.N. assistant secretary-general for human rights, told the United Nations Security Council.
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