According to the President’s Secretariat, the grounds included a submission from the Head of the Supreme Court suggesting that Vadim Kopylyan be dismissed for a grave infringement of his professional duties

The region holds 13,227 people who suffered as a result of the Chernobyl Disaster, 3,835 of them children. There are 908 people with disability status as a result.

The death has been announced of the well-known artist Opanas Zalyvakha. He died in Ivano-Frankivsk in the early hours of 24 April 2007

The death has been announced of the well-known artist Opanas Zalyvakha. He died in Ivano-Frankivsk in the early hours of 24 April 2007

After the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, Yelena Tregubova published an open letter in the German press calling on Angela Merkel and other Western leaders to demand that Vladimir Putin put a stop to political murders, the violations of human rights and elimination of the independent media in Russia.

At a press conference on 24 April the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group reported on its review and commentary to Ukraine’s Fifth Periodic Report to the UN Committee against Torture and why the need remains for vigilant monitoring of the situation by human rights organizations

Deputy Prime Minister in Viktor Yanukovych’s government, Volodymyr Rybak, has confirmed that he sent a written appeal to the heads of businesses asking them to donate money to the Party of the Regions. He claims that he asked for the money as the head of the Party’s Political Council, not in his official capacity

Prayers and solemn processions have taken place in many Ukrainian cities in memory of the victims of the terrible massacre 92 years ago when Turkey, then part of the Ottoman Empire, killed between 600 thousand and 1.5 million Armenians

"When the law begins to speak, little is able to stop it... If morality can for some time be disregarded, such neglect of the law cannot last for long"

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group have held the first session of a year-long training course on using national and international mechanisms for defending human rights in strategic litigations

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group have held the first session of a year-long training course on using national and international mechanisms for defending human rights in strategic litigations

In July 2007 it will be a year since Ukraine ratified the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture [OPCAT], yet the required national preventive mechanisms have yet to be created. Nina Karpachova’s failure to attend the last roundtable and her refusal to take responsibility for developing such mechanisms is in contrast to her avowed concern in 2005 and an obstruction to progress in this vital area

At a press conference on 24 April, representatives of KHPG will discuss the content of the Ukrainian government’s Fifth Periodic Report to the UN Committee against Torture and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group’s independent report on Ukraine’s compliance with the UN Convention against Torture

At a press conference on 24 April, representatives of KHPG will discuss the content of the Ukrainian government’s Fifth Periodic Report to the UN Committee against Torture and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group’s independent report on Ukraine’s compliance with the UN Convention against Torture

The amendments made to the Constitution must be reviewed if any real solution is to be found for Ukraine’s political crisis

During an action entitled: “I walk around Moscow: Excursion around the riot police’s places of combat prowess”, the head of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomaryov and three others were detained while attempting a peaceful excursion around the places where people were brutally dispersed on 14 April

In Simferopol on Saturday more than 300 adults and children with disabilities took part in a march – demonstration under the banner “See me as equal!”. The event was aimed at drawing the public’s attention to the problems people with disabilities face and to develop a positive attitude to those with limited possibilities

The sad story of attempts thus far to limit the extraordinary scope in Ukraine of deputy immunity which is violating the rights of other citizens and seriously jeopardizing the rule of law in the country

The sad story of attempts thus far to limit the extraordinary scope in Ukraine of deputy immunity which is violating the rights of other citizens and seriously jeopardizing the rule of law in the country

This is the first time in Ukraine that mobile operators will be joining forces with the IOM to combat human trafficking and to raise public awareness of the need to protect people’s rights when working abroad