03.12.08
The results of this study by the Centre for Judicial Studies demonstrate dangerous tendencies with infringements of judicial independence, with the institutional independence of the judiciary under constant threat from individual high-ranking public officials and state bodies.
27.11.08
The judge of the Halytsky District Court has ordered the Mayor to retract false information damaging the newspaper’s business reputation at a session of the Council
26.11.08
Rafael Lemkin’s endeavours to have genocide in the 1948 Convention encompass the crime committed against a social class were thwarted by the Soviet side. Lemkin was however in any case convinced that Holodomor was a “classic example of Soviet genocide”
24.11.08 | Halya Coynash
Given recent heavy-handed reactions, one wishes the Security Service could bear in mind that before any action, it is always wise to weigh the likely damage of the action against the harm from doing nothing
24.11.08
On Sunday 23 November around 250 people took part in constructing a fence around the land on Yaltynska St where it is hoped to build the Mosque - Dzhuma-Dzhami
22.11.08
The Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, human rights defender and, former political prisoner believes it would be impossible to accept such an award while these are being used by the President as instruments for political bargaining
22.11.08
On Wednesday the judge announced that the trial was to be behind closed doors, claiming that this was at the jury’s request. The next day one of the jury members informed the radio station Echo Moskvy that no such request had been made
20.11.08 | Yevhen Sverstyuk
The letter below was written by Yevhen Sverstyuk, President of the Ukrainian PEN Club, writer and former political prisoner to Russia’ President Medvedev with regard to the latter’s refusal to attend Holodomor Remembrance events in Kyiv
18.11.08
The Khamovnychesky District Court must now accept the applications from „Memorial” to have the responses of the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office in refusing to consider the appeals to rehabilitate 16 people of the Katyń Massacre illegal
17.11.08
Reporters without borders: “Regardless of the outcome of this trial, this case will not be over until those who ordered Politkovskaya’s murder and the gunman who carried it out have been identified and brought to justice.”
14.11.08
A study carried out by civic organizations working in 9 regions of the country has found that the Luhansk region is firmly in the lead as regards the number of violations of the right to information, this time regarding land and city construction work
A conference initiated by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities aimed at sharing vital experience of police work in a multicultural society was ignored by the law enforcement representatives it was directed at
05.11.08 | Moisei Fishbein
The renowned Ukrainian poet Moisei Fishbein speaks of current Russian attempts to foist lies about Ukraine and its past on both its own population and the world community
04.11.08
Yury Chumak, Human Rights Assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs, has written a critical article on how the law enforcement agencies talk about offenders, especially those from particular ethnic groups, and the negative impact this has.
