FROM THE EDITORS
27.06.2009
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group would like to gratefully acknowledge the enormous help offered us in creating this report.
The organizations which kindly provided material for this report:
The Centre for Judges Studies {Kyiv)
The Centre for Law and Political Research «SiM» (Lviv)
The Centre for Political and Legal Reform (Kyiv)
The Chernihiv Womens Human Rights Centre
The Civic Advocacy Centre (Lviv)
The Civic Organization «Donetsk Memorial»
The Civic Organization «Helsinki Initiative-XXI» (Chortkiv, Ternopil region)
The Civic Organization «Social Action» (Kyiv)
The Civic Environmental and Humanitarian Association «Zeleny Svit» [«Green World»]
The Committee on Monitoring Press Freedom in the Crimea
The Congress of National Communities of Ukraine
The Information and Educational Centre «Womens Network»
The Independent Cultural Journal «Ї»
The Institute of Mass Information (Kyiv)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
The International Womens Human Rights Centre «La Strada – Ukraine»
The Kharkiv Institute of Social Research
The Kherson Regional Charity and Health Foundation
The Kherson Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine
The Luhansk Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine
The «Maidan» Alliance
The National Assembly of Disabled Persons
The Network for the Development of European Law (Kyiv)
The Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU)
The «Respublica» Institute for Economic and Social Issues (Kyiv)
The Sumy Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine
The Ukrainian Association «Zeleny Svit»
The Ukrainian Independent Centre of Political Research
The Womens Consortium of Ukraine
Human Rights Watch
The authors and co-authors of particular units, as well as the researchers of material used here:
Taras Antoshevsky; Valentina Badyra; Oleksandr Banchuk; Yuri Belousov; Dementiy Belyy; Oleksandr Bukalov; Maksim Butkevych; Arkady Bushchenko; Volodymyr Chemerys; Kateryna Cherepakha; Andriy Chernousov; Yury Chumak, Tetyana Doroshok, Iryna Fedorovych, Andriy Gel, , Olha Kalashnyk; Denis Kobzin; Roman Kuybida; Kateryna Levchenko; Viacheslav Lichachev, Iryna Magdysh, Oleh Martynenko; Oksana Nesterenko; Andriy Olenyuk; Volodymyr Ponomarenko; Volodymyr Prytula, Viktor Pushkar, Vsevolod Rechytsky; Mykhailo Romanov; Mykola Semena Oleksandr Severyn; Maksim Shcherbatyuk; Oleksandr Stepanenko; Oleksiy Svyetkov, Gennadiy Tokarev; Ruslan Topolevsky; Yaryna Volvach, Irina Yakovets; Vasylyna Yavorska, Viacheslav Yakubenko
This report would not have been possible without the support and assistance of Halyna Budivska, Volodymyr Derkachov, Irayida Fesenko, Marina Hovorukhina, Iryna Kuchynska, Oleh Myroshnychenko, Oleksandr Pavlychenko, Oleksandr Savransky, Vitaly Svyatsky, Olha Tsilyk, Volodymyr Uryvay, Ludmila Yelcheva and Boris Zakharov
We would like also to express our gratitude to the National Endowment for Democracy (USA), who provided financial assistance for the preparation of this Report.
Yevgeniy Zakharov, Volodymyr Yavorsky
The organizations which kindly provided material for this report:
The Centre for Judges Studies {Kyiv)
The Centre for Law and Political Research «SiM» (Lviv)
The Centre for Political and Legal Reform (Kyiv)
The Chernihiv Womens Human Rights Centre
The Civic Advocacy Centre (Lviv)
The Civic Organization «Donetsk Memorial»
The Civic Organization «Helsinki Initiative-XXI» (Chortkiv, Ternopil region)
The Civic Organization «Social Action» (Kyiv)
The Civic Environmental and Humanitarian Association «Zeleny Svit» [«Green World»]
The Committee on Monitoring Press Freedom in the Crimea
The Congress of National Communities of Ukraine
The Information and Educational Centre «Womens Network»
The Independent Cultural Journal «Ї»
The Institute of Mass Information (Kyiv)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
The International Womens Human Rights Centre «La Strada – Ukraine»
The Kharkiv Institute of Social Research
The Kherson Regional Charity and Health Foundation
The Kherson Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine
The Luhansk Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine
The «Maidan» Alliance
The National Assembly of Disabled Persons
The Network for the Development of European Law (Kyiv)
The Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU)
The «Respublica» Institute for Economic and Social Issues (Kyiv)
The Sumy Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine
The Ukrainian Association «Zeleny Svit»
The Ukrainian Independent Centre of Political Research
The Womens Consortium of Ukraine
Human Rights Watch
The authors and co-authors of particular units, as well as the researchers of material used here:
Taras Antoshevsky; Valentina Badyra; Oleksandr Banchuk; Yuri Belousov; Dementiy Belyy; Oleksandr Bukalov; Maksim Butkevych; Arkady Bushchenko; Volodymyr Chemerys; Kateryna Cherepakha; Andriy Chernousov; Yury Chumak, Tetyana Doroshok, Iryna Fedorovych, Andriy Gel, , Olha Kalashnyk; Denis Kobzin; Roman Kuybida; Kateryna Levchenko; Viacheslav Lichachev, Iryna Magdysh, Oleh Martynenko; Oksana Nesterenko; Andriy Olenyuk; Volodymyr Ponomarenko; Volodymyr Prytula, Viktor Pushkar, Vsevolod Rechytsky; Mykhailo Romanov; Mykola Semena Oleksandr Severyn; Maksim Shcherbatyuk; Oleksandr Stepanenko; Oleksiy Svyetkov, Gennadiy Tokarev; Ruslan Topolevsky; Yaryna Volvach, Irina Yakovets; Vasylyna Yavorska, Viacheslav Yakubenko
This report would not have been possible without the support and assistance of Halyna Budivska, Volodymyr Derkachov, Irayida Fesenko, Marina Hovorukhina, Iryna Kuchynska, Oleh Myroshnychenko, Oleksandr Pavlychenko, Oleksandr Savransky, Vitaly Svyatsky, Olha Tsilyk, Volodymyr Uryvay, Ludmila Yelcheva and Boris Zakharov
We would like also to express our gratitude to the National Endowment for Democracy (USA), who provided financial assistance for the preparation of this Report.
Yevgeniy Zakharov, Volodymyr Yavorsky