login | registration | forgot the password
today 23.05.2013 23:36
(by Kyiv time)

navigation


News from partners
Access to information

Human rights activists investigate how available information about the activities of State bodies is in Ukraine

11.11.05 | Yuri Chumak,Kharkiv
The Kharkiv group for human rights protection, together with the public organization “Koreni travy” have launched a large-scale public investigation within the framework of the project “Access to information on the activities of State bodies"
detail | print version
Against torture and ill-treatment

While ill-treatment continues, the State wastes money

11.11.05 | Volodymyr Yavorskiy, Kyiv
The Chamber of Accounting of Ukraine has found that State funding on penal institutions and implementing the 2004 reforms is being used unsystematically and often not for the purposes intended.
detail | print version
Elections

Deputy Mayor exposed as a vote-rigger in the Mykolaiv region

11.11.05
The deputy mayor of a town in the Mykolaiv region has been exposed for rigging voting papers during the second round of Presidential elections.
detail | print version
Access to information

About access to information in some European countries

09.11.05
Some information about access to information held by State bodies in the United Kingdom and France.
detail | print version
Politics and human rights

Open Letter to the President of Ukraine

09.11.05
An Appeal from members of the human rights movement of the 1960s to 80s and former prisoners of conscience to the President of Ukraine, calling on him to use the powers vested in him by the People, to prevent dangerous amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine.
detail | print version
Access to information

The level of transparency in State executive bodies

08.11.05 | Oleksandr Shapovalov, Kherson
Some leader of the “Orange movement” claim that the new regime is more transparent than the old one!” The Kherson branch of the Voters’ Committee of Ukraine decided to check out this claim in practice. Their findings do not make cheering reading.
detail | print version
The right to a fair trial

Conclusion of the Committee on Issues of Legal Policy: “Military courts should be liquidated gradually”.

08.11.05
Final and complete liquidation of military courts will become possible only with the introduction of proper procedural codes which do not envisage cases under these courts’ jurisdiction.
detail | print version
Civic society, Point of view

Revolt

08.11.05 | Oleksandr Severyn, Kyiv
On the planned amendments to the Constitution (the “political reform”): “I am a citizen. …. I simply have rights which I will not give up without a fight. My barricades are the Constitution. Each time anybody attempts to take these rights away, they will have to take the barricades by storm. And we’ll see who wins, since there are a lot of us”
detail | print version
Freedom of expression

Journalists protest against persecution of their colleague

04.11.05
Investigative journalists, headed by Chief Editor Igor Kanevskiy, are leaving the newspaper “Biznes” in protest at the persecution of their colleague Oleksandr Dranikov. A new media-project will be created in Ukraine, which will specialize in investigative journalism.
detail | print version
Against torture and ill-treatment

“Great-small” victory of human dignity

04.11.05 | Oleksandr Stepanenko, Chortkiv
A common citizen, without any lawyer has succeeded in gaining court consideration of his case: his police torturers have been punished.
detail | print version
NGO activities, News from the CIS countries

Crime without punishment?

03.11.05
On the sixth anniversary of artillery strikes on innocent civilians in Chechnya, “Memorial” reminds us of the crucial role which the European Court of Human Rights can play in ensuring that such crimes do not go unanswered.
detail | print version
Victims of political repression, Deported peoples, We remember

In Memory of the Victims of the Solovky embarkation point

03.11.05 | Vasyl Ovsiyenko
The Sandarmokh Cossack Cross and a call to pay tribute to the victims of Soviet Terror whose unmarked graves lie in Sandarmokh and on Solovky.
detail | print version
News from the CIS countries, Announcements

A new TV Documentary “The Truth about our rights”

02.11.05
The foundation “Force of the law” is offering to provide on request to any interested groups or individuals their TV documentary “The Truth about our rights” (about human rights issues during 2004-2005)
detail | print version
Self-government, NGO activities

Human rights and legal awareness-raising in Sumy

02.11.05
The Sumy City Civic Organization “Pravozakhyst" ["Human rights protection"] has been active since 2001 in developing legal awareness and ensuring that people understand their rights and the law
detail | print version
The right to a fair trial

The planned reforms of the courts and of law enforcement bodies do not meet the needs of a democratic society

02.11.05 | Viktoria Onishchenko, Kyiv
On 10 October, in the UNIAN, human rights activists and lawyers discussed issues relating to the reform of the courts and of law enforcement bodies in Ukraine. Positive comments were few and far between.
detail | print version
The right to a fair trial

Vasyl Onopenko: “The Criminal Procedure Code should be changed!”

02.11.05
Last week Vasyl Onopenko introduced a new Draft Law No. 8256 on amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. The author points out that such amendments are needed because of discrepancies in the legislative regulation of the methods of recording court hearings into a case (minutes of a court sitting) and reproduction of technical tools in courts of all types of jurisdiction.
detail | print version
Against torture and ill-treatment

The Prosecutor’s office has submitted charges involving the use of torture by police officers to the court

02.11.05 | www.proua.com
The Prosecutor’s office of the Zhytomyr region has investigated and passed on to the court criminal charges against eight officers of the law enforcement bodies.
detail | print version

   

Articles

No Excuse for Not Releasing Tymoshenko

Halya Coynash
President Yanukovych has said that no pardon can be granted until all criminal proceedings in the Tymoshenko cases have been concluded with this once again fuelling doubts about the competence of his advisers, both political and legal
detail | print version

No Miracle, No Justice

Halya Coynash
Despite no evidence aside from multiple “confessions” retracted in court and grave irregularities, two sacristans of the Svyatopokrovsk Orthodox Church in Zaporizhya, and brother of one of them, have been convicted of the 2010 bomb blast in the Church and sentenced to 15 and 14 years respectively
detail | print version

Win the elections or end up imprisoned?

Attempts to prosecute former opposition parliamentary candidate, Viktor Romanyuk, who was the clear leader until Party of the Regions candidate Zasukha got results in some polling precincts cancelled make any assurances given at the summit seem depressingly empty
detail | print version

Railway ticket are again to include names

Yevhen Zakharov
The introduction of named railway tickets and the gathering of information about passengers’ movements infringe the right to privacy. Nobody has informed passengers of such a database, and has not asked for their consent to having data about their travels inserted and retained
detail | print version

Offensive Truths

Halya Coynash
First Deputy Prosecutor General, Renat Kuzmin wants to criminalize “defamation”, which, unlike libel, can include true statements. At least within shooting range of Ukraine’s Criminal Code, this would silence all those unpleasant accusations of selective justice, judicial dependence etc
detail | print version

Engineering Conflict in the Crimea

Halya Coynash
The Crimean leadership, almost certainly with encouragement from above, seem hellbent on fuelling confrontation with potentially tragic consequences
detail | print version

Uses and abuses of far-right electoral gains in Ukraine

Halya Coynash
Recent electoral success of the rightwing VO Svoboda Party and the obvious benefits to the ruling Party of the Regions have prompted considerable speculation, while attempts to play hero to the far-right xenophobes suggest the influence of other players, including at least one Kremlin-supported organization
detail | print version