01.08.09 | Halya Coynash
You’d have thought there was nothing easier. Child pornography is a crime. Almost a feat to so muddle it: they’re penalizing the wrong people, goodness knows for what, and children remain unprotected.
In an extraordinary judgment the Supreme Court has agreed to remove evidence which the Court in Strasbourg found suspicious, and yet uphold the verdict
30.07.09
The Committee of Voters of Ukraine believe that the obstructions and deportation from Moldova of Ukrainian members of a team of international observers elements of the Moldovan regime’s pre-election political technology
A large number of media outlets in the Crimea seem trapped in some old Soviet idea about their proper role in society. You supposedly can’t rely on the readers, but need to show them how to live, what to think and even who to love.
28.07.09
Environmental organizations have expressed their concern over the rejection by the parliamentary committee on environmental policy of a draft law imposing a moratorium on the total felling and export of wood, chippings etc
25.07.09
In Kazan on 20 July 2009 law enforcement agencies paralyzed the activities of two well-known civic organizations – the interregional human rights organization AGORA and the Kazan Human Rights Centre
On what Russians obliquely term “historical policy”, on a war supposedly defensive but to be waged on foreign territory and against historians and journalists, and on thoughts which no propagandist din will deafen
21.07.09
The Russian Ministry of Communications has issued an Order which basically abolishes the constitutional right to privacy of communication and simply chooses not to mention Article 23 of that illustrious – and neglected – document
20.07.09
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union has taken this case on as a strategic litigation involving as it does a Soviet decree which is in breach of the Constitution
17.07.09 | Vitaly Portnikov
The last months have seen murders, assassination attempts and abductions in the region. And now the murder of a human rights defender, fearless Natalya Estemirova, one of the few people thanks to whom we could have at least some information about what was really happening in Ramzan Kadyrev’s kingdom
15.07.09
The new version does not fully supply the needed changes, but is an improvement, and the very fact of its having been tabled could provide the stimulus to achieve the relevant changes when preparing legislative changes to the second and third readings
15.07.09
The Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers has issued a statement expressing concern over the passing in its first reading of a draft law which envisages criminal liability for violations of legislation on public morality
12.07.09
Statement from Memorial with regard to the reaction by Russia’s Council of the Federation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Resolution “Divided Europe Reunited
08.07.09
Lawyers from the local human rights organization, journalists, representatives of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions and the All-Ukrainian Union of Workers are at the factory giving the strikers support
07.07.09
Volodymyr Yavorsky, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, answers questions regarding the human rights situation in 2008
04.07.09
Women working at the Yanovska refining plant in the Luhansk region have been on strike now since Wednesday. As if the conditions that these women work in were not shocking enough, they have virtually not been paid for over three of the last six months
03.07.09
According to the Human Rights Centre “Svoboda”, on 1 July approximately 84 prisoners from the maximum security unit at Penal Colony No. 58 Izyaslav in the Khmelnytsky region declared an indefinite hunger strike
Donetsk Memorial believes the surge in violence to be aimed at intimidating prisoners before the awaited visit by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
03.07.09
The Institute for Religious Freedom has analyzed Nina Karpachova’s first “annual report” since 2005 and found it seriously wanting as regards religious freedom issues
