28.04.10 | Yevhen Zakharov
Freedom of information and the right to privacy in the context of access to archival material regarding political repression in the USSR and how investigative operations which infringe human rights comply with case law under Article 8 of the European Court of Human Rights
A baffling way of responding to the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union’s complaint over the failure by the Minister of Internal Affairs to heed apparent advice from the President to not economize on human rights
Results of a study carried out by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation as part of their “Ukrainian Democratic Barometer” project both of public perception regarding their rights and of human rights organizations’ assessment of the situation in 2009
23.04.10
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and Kharkiv Human Rights Group have published an open letter to President Yanukovych expressing their concern over a worsening in the human rights situation during the 50 days since he was elected President
The above makes it clear that the policy being carried out in the police force has little in common with the policy of the European police, and human rights are of ever less interest to the law enforcement bodies. In this case, there can be no question of reforms.
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union has initiated an appeal by civic organizations against plans to reintroduce named railway tickets
13.04.10 | Halya Coynash
For those wishing to see Ukraine’s development as a law-based democracy, the lessons of the last month and of the Constitutional Court Judgment of 6 April including the message received from western partners, can be called nothing less than disastrous
