30 April 2015, Kyiv – UNDP and the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights hosted a presentation of the comprehensive study on the status of rights of women living in the rural areas of Ukraine.
Women's role and performance in politics has been a heated topic for many years, and was revisited on 26 October 2014 when parliamentary elections took place in Ukraine. Statistics shows that the new Verkhovna Rada has the largest number of women MPs in the history of independent Ukraine.