The Council is a temporary public monitoring and consultative and advisory body intended to ensure the running of democratic parliamentary elections

The Council is a temporary public monitoring and consultative and advisory body intended to ensure the running of democratic parliamentary elections

Political parties in Ukraine officially own 41 printed media outlets. Unofficially, the number of newspapers etc under their control is many times higher

Political parties in Ukraine officially own 41 printed media outlets. Unofficially, the number of newspapers etc under their control is many times higher

The UNIAN press agency’s new project should provide exciting possibilities for broadening awareness of the work of human rights organizations and generally of human rights issues

The UNIAN press agency’s new project should provide exciting possibilities for broadening awareness of the work of human rights organizations and generally of human rights issues

On this day we remember all the Victims of the wave of senseless carnage unfurled throughout the republics of the Soviet Union on 5 August 1937

“Grotesque when you realize that these were quotas on repression. You have fixed amounts of construction material, things, but not human lives..."

Lawyer Oleh Levytsky is calling on the Prosecutor General to allow him to see Lemma Susarov and to carry out an investigation into the extraordinary actions of prosecutor’s office staff in refusing a detained man access to a lawyer

According to the Minister of Justice, the number of low income Ukrainians needing free legal aid has decreased. And not just a little. Human rights groups would respectfully suggest an alternative interpretation for the statistics cited

An attempt to establish what did actually happen in the Izyaslav Penal Colony and a reminder to the State Department for the Execution of Sentences that the days when they could conceal such outrages have passed

An attempt to establish what did actually happen in the Izyaslav Penal Colony and a reminder to the State Department for the Execution of Sentences that the days when they could conceal such outrages have passed

An affirmation of the vital role civic society must play in wrenching the country from its present crisis and a clear warning to those in power that public patience in their wantonly destructive games with the country and its people has come to an end

Yevhen Zakharov sees one of the main achievements of the Civic Assembly in its having drawn civic organizations together and enabled them to feel part of an ever more potent civic community

Yevhen Zakharov sees one of the main achievements of the Civic Assembly in its having drawn civic organizations together and enabled them to feel part of an ever more potent civic community

Yevhen Zakharov sees one of the main achievements of the Civic Assembly in its having drawn civic organizations together and enabled them to feel part of an ever more potent civic community

Monitoring in 10 different regions of Ukraine has found that he authorities have become more tolerant of criticism in the mass media however owners of private media outlets have not stopped lobbying their own interests through their outlets

The European Court of Human Rights on 26 July 2007 has found Russia guilty of mass killing in Chechnya, in the case of Musayev and others v. Russia.

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union reports that the human rights situation deteriorated in 2006. Ample corroboration of this assessment is provided by the annual report just released “Human Rights in Ukraine – 2006”.

The law and its extremely vague definition of different types of “extremism” have aroused serious and well-founded concern among human rights and journalist organizations that the law could be abused