WILPF together with the following Ukrainian women’s groups, the Center for Social and Labour Research, the Theatre for Dialogue, Gender Dnipro, NGO Centre of the Future, Child Smile, and the Alternative Centre with the help of the charity fund East SOS, and the following Ukrainian independent activists Nick Pidgora, Oksana Pokalchuk, Uliana Egorova, Alina Yaroslavska, Oksana Potapova and Iryna Chorna, submitted the following comments to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to assist the Committee in its consideration of Ukraine’s eighth periodic report, during its session in February 2017.