Information website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

11.05.2008

The Cost of Words

On a Hitler doll / model, apologies for spreading misleading information from the BBC and calls on other media outlets to follow suit »»

10.05.2008

Concept Paper of State Policy on Prevention of Torture, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (draft)

We present here the first draft of this important document and invite any comments and suggstions for amendments »»

08.05.2008

Tell us who your friends are

According to sociologists from the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre, Russians regard China as the friendliest country, and the least – the USA, Georgia and Ukraine »»

08.05.2008

Chernovetsky bought the most news coverage in April

. “Virtually everything about the elections for Kyiv Mayor shown on central television channels was broadcast for money. A record was set for the largest number of paid items.” »»

08.05.2008

Court accepts claim against Human Rights Ombudsperson

A Vinnytsa resident has taken the Human Rights Ombudsperson Nina Karpachova to court and won a historic victory for the area »»

08.05.2008

To Deutsche Welle: Stop polluting the Internet!

Why is Deutsche Welle continuing to profoundly offend people in a country which as you are well aware has every reason to remember Nazism with pain and absolute abhorrence? »»

07.05.2008

Halya Coynash. Lies leave toxic waste

It is galling that you can buy the doll in one shop in Kyiv, as well as in England, the USA and other countries. However something else remains quite incomprehensible. How can you manufacture a sensation based on lies at the expense of a nation which suffered from fascists and butchers of all breeds? »»

07.05.2008

Help us clear up the mess!

As Victory Day approaches, we believe it fitting in remembrance of all victims of Nazism in Ukraine to take all measures to clear the Internet of profoundly offensive and misleading comments regarding Ukraine over the "Hitler doll" »»

07.05.2008

Clearing toxic debris

We enclose sample letters to write to the media outlets who published inaccurate and misleading information over the "Hitler doll" »»

05.05.2008

Enemies of the Press in 2007

The Institute for Mass Information and the Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union have announced their anti-awards for “Enemies of the Press» 2007. They include the Mayors of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv. »»

03.05.2008

To err is human - to acknowledge your mistake is excellent professional conduct!

We warmly welcome the initiative taken by Trumpet.com in withdrawing their article about figurines of Hitler having arrived in Ukrainian shops іsince the "source material that the article was based on was both inaccurate and misleading” »»

28.04.2008

Cyber attack on Radio Svoboda websites

The attack, unprecedented in scale, was first aimed at the Belarusian Service, but soon hit other sites also »»

28.04.2008

Crimean Tatars shot by the NKVD in 1938 remembered in Simferopol

According to the Mejilis of the Crimean Tatar people, the killings took place in Simferopol over three days from 17 April 1938 and the number killed is unknown »»

27.04.2008

Ministry of Energy declared a danger zone

On 26 April, the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster, activists from the National Ecological Centre cordoned off a “danger zone” around the Ministry of Fuel and Energy to warn Ukrainians about the danger of a repeat of the catastrophe due to the government’s energy policy »»

24.04.2008

Halya Coynash. Conflicting interests

I would ask Yury Lutsenko and all those calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty to just type in the following words on Google: DNA, wrongful, prison. Or try torture and confession. You’ll read enough arguments to last a lifetime »»

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Articles

• Empowering truth

Approach us when you are offered “sensational information” concerning Ukraine. We are NOT asking that you take our word for it. Quite the contrary – we would ask you to check all information and present differing points of view. This is what all of us, including your audiences, are entitled to expect.

• Kyiv’s Hitler dolls from Taiwan courtesy of Russia’s ORT and the BBC

Halya Coynash
They say that news travels fast. So, unfortunately, do lies. The speed with which the “story” described below reached quite different media outlets has made many people in Ukraine question whether it, so to speak, travelled, or was transported. Be that as it may, other questions also beg our consideration

• Desperate glory

Halya Coynash
On the dangers of imposing heroes, on history textbooks and shining examples in Ukraine’s recent history we should not forget

• On “National images of the past”

(The twentieth century and the “war of memories”) An appeal from the International “Memorial” Society

• Painful lessons

Halya Coynash
The response “They never learn!” was probably shared by many on Friday when it became known that the Ukrainian authorities had expelled 11 asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka. A great deal was hideously reminiscent of February 2006 when the authorities handed over 11 Uzbeks to Karimov’s henchmen.

• The beginning of a legitimate constitutional process?

Yevhen Zakharov
On the newly formed National Constitutional Council, its less than inspiring first meeting and why the constitutional process must continue

• Reaching out

Halya Coynash
Recognition of Holodomor is not a Ukrainian matter alone. All crimes of genocide are crimes against you and I