FROM THE EDITORS
27.07.2008
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 Human Rights Organizations Report. First and foremost we wish to thank:
The organizations which kindly provided material for this report:
The All-Ukrainian Environmental Organization “MAMA-86”
The All-Ukrainian Council of Defence of Rights and Security of Patients
The Bureau on Environmental Investigations (Lviv)
The Chernihiv Women’s Human Rights Center
The Civic Organization „Donetsk Memorial”
The Civic Organization of Blind Lawyers (Kharkiv)
The Civic Organization "Helsinki Initiative-XXI" (Chortkiv, Ternopil region)
The Civic Organization “M’ART” [Youth Alternative], Chernihiv
The Civic Environmental and Humanitarian Association “Zeleny Svit” [“Green World”]
The Center of Law and Political Research “SiM” (Lviv)
The Committee on Monitoring Press Freedom in the Crimea
The Committee of Voters of Ukraine
The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine
The Congress of National Communities of Ukraine
The Environmental Organization “Pechenihi” (Kharkiv)
The Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine
The Institute of Mass Information (Kyiv)
The International Association “Environment – People – Law” [EPL] (Lviv)
The International Renaissance Foundation
The International Women’s 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 National Assembly of Disabled Persons
The Odessa Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine
The Penitentiary Society of Ukraine
The Public Committee for the Protection of Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties (Luhansk)
The Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU)
The “Respublica” Institute (Kyiv)
The Sevastopol Human Rights Protection Group
The Sumy Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine
The Ukrainian Association “Zeleny Svit”
The Ukrainian Independent Center of Political Research
The Union “Public Watch” (Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region)
The authors and co-authors of particular units, as well as the researchers of material used here:
Taras Antoshevsky; Yury Babinin; Valentina Badyra; Larisa Baida; Yuri Belousov; Dementiy Belyy; Oleksandr Betsa; Anatoly Boiko; Oleksandr Bukalov; Maksim Butkevych; Serhiy Burov; Arkady Bushchenko; Volodymyr Chemerys; Kateryna Cherepakha; Andriy Chernousov; Denis Galavniov; Hanna Holubovska-Onisimova; Olha Kalashnyk; Denis Kobzin; Ludmila Kovalchuk; Mykola Kozyryev; Kateryna Levchenko; Maryna Legenka; Oleh Lepetiuk; Viacheslav Lichachov, Oleh Martynenko; Olha Melen; Mykhaylo Minaev; Oksana Nesterenko; Andriy Olenyuk; Volodymyr Ponomarenko; Volodymyr Prytula, Vsevolod Rechytsky; Andriy Rokhansky; Mykhailo Romanov; Roman Semeshko; Oleksandr Severyn; Maksim Shcherbatyuk; Larysa Sidelnik; Natalia Skripka; Oleksandr Stepanenko; Gennadiy Tokarev; Ruslan Topolevsky; Olha Vilkova; Yaryna Volvach, Irina Yakovets; Maryana Yevsyukova; Inna Zakharova.
This report would not have been possible without the support and assistance of Halya Coynash, Volodymyr Derkachov, Irayida Fesenko, Maryna Govorukhina, Oleh Myroshnychenko, Vadym Pyvovarov, Oleksandr Savransky, Serhiy Udalov, Volodymyr Uryvay 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