15.12.03 | Vasyl Ovsienko, Kyiv
On 20 May 2003 the monument to academician Mykhaylo Kravchuk, an outstanding mathematician of the 20th century, was erected on the Muzeyna Square of the National Technical University "Kyiv polytechnic institute".
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These data were presented by Lucius Kaflish, a judge of the European Court on human rights, a professor of the jus gentium of the Institute of international relations in Geneva. The editorial board of "Prava ludyny" comments the note.
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Ombudsperson Nina Karpacheva told at the seminar for the regional mass media that the number of the complaints connected with the violations of human rights handed by journalists increased during several last years. N. Karpacheva also got the highest award of the Union of journalists of Ukraine for the support of the representatives of mass media and the persistent protection of journalists.
15.12.03 | G. Antoniuk, Ternopil
Next year the Ternopil oblast charity historical and educational society "Memorial" named after V. Stus will celebrate the 15th anniversary of its activities. The review of its work during these 15 years is given.
15.12.03 | Alla Lepekha, Chernigiv
The members of the charity organization "Chernigiv center for protecting women rights" delivered on 7 May 2003 the first lecture in the school of legal knowledge in Chernigiv women reforming colony No. 44. The organization also renders aid to other women penitentiaries
15.12.03 | Maya Kriukova, Kharkov
The Kharkov oblast governor Kushnariov created the commission that must investigate the cases of the youths, who were dismissed from army because of bad state of health within first six months of their service
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The parents complained to the European Court of human rights against the inhumane upkeep conditions and unjust verdict. Ukraine was obliged to pay the compensation
15.12.03 | Igor Mudrik, Kalush, the newspaper “Vikna”
A young man was detained and illegally kept in custody. Beatings and other torture made him to bite through his veins
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The Appeal court of the Lviv oblast partly satisfied the claim of Bogdan Kufrik, a journalist of the Lviv newspaper "Express", against Lviv mayor Lubomir Buniak, who exceeded his authority demanding from the journalist to leave the hall of the Lviv town council, where the press conference of the mayor was hold.
15.12.03 | Nikolay Kozyrev, Lugansk
This year the Lugansk public committee for human rights protection conducts the investigation of the level of freedom of local newspapers. The results showed almost complete dependence of district newspapers on local power organs.
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Chenivtsy governor Teofil Bauer declared that would call away the claims against mass media and journalists "for the sake of public order", since these claims can become a destabilizing factor in the process of the development of the regional informational space." He asked all mass media of the region "to leave their ambitions and to begin the constructive dialog".
15.12.03 | Yuri Chorney, Chernivtsy
The Kyiv organization of the National union of journalists of Ukraine supported the Chernivtsy journalists’ community, who demanded "to stop the savage pressure exerted by the insolent authorities on the freedom of speech and democratic principles stipulated by the Constitution". The public resonance and the support on the side of the all-Ukrainian journalist union made the Chernivtsy authorities to retreat.
15.12.03 | Konstantin Ustimenko, Dnepropetrovsk
The author discusses the question of recompensing moral damage inflicted by inauthentic information published in mass media. He believes that the legislative stipulation of the maximal sum of compensation for moral damage is necessary.
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Mykola Selivon, the head of the Constitutional Court, believes that it should be advisable to empower the Constitutional Court to consider the constitutional complaints of citizens.
15.12.03 | Evhen Zakharov, the Kharkov group for human rights protection
The report about the conference presented by one of its participants.
