MOSCOW, August 3 (RAPSI) – Only 0.2% of all complaints submitted to Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova are related to racial discrimination and impatience, Senior Consultant in the Ombudsman’s Olga Goncharenko said during the 93rd Session of the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Thursday.

The number of complaints about human rights violations is on the rise, according to Goncharenko’s report. Over the past 5 years, the ombudsman’s office considered over 140,000 applications, including only 185 complaints of racial discrimination filed in 2017.

There is a tendency for decrease of xenophobia and racial impatience in Russia, according to the representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The institute of human rights ombudsman is a government body involved in protection and promotion of rights and freedoms, and competent legal assistance. Moskalkova was appointed as the country's human rights ombudsman in April 2016.