Beatings and torture are everyday in Ukrainian prisons, and the public have little way of finding out what is happening. Recent events in the Izyaslav Penal Colony No. 31 where an attempted hunger strike resulted in reprisals against the prisoners is just one disturbing example

According to the head of the Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union, journalists have not forgotten the incident where National Deputy Kalashnikov assaulted a television filming crew and are appalled by the lack of any action from Kalashnikov’s party. They also call for an adequate response from the journalist community

At a press conference held by KHPG and La Strada – Ukraine on Monday, particular attention was given to the appalling use of specially trained units in penal institutions, as well as the intransigence of the Department for the Execution of Sentences

At a press conference held by KHPG and La Strada – Ukraine on Monday, particular attention was given to the appalling use of specially trained units in penal institutions, as well as the intransigence of the Department for the Execution of Sentences

Specialists consider that the situation will not be improved so much by encouraging people to have more children, but rather through the creation of enough jobs, and also urgent reforms in healthcare, education, pensions, etc.

At the present time between 1 and 1.5 thousand Crimean Tatars return each year. Larger numbers will probably depend on conditions in the Central Asian republics to which the Tatars were deported over 62 years ago

We would add a considerably less cordial reminder to the Chinese Embassy that they have no right to impose their will on citizens of other countries (nor on citizens of their own, for that matter!)

We would add a considerably less cordial reminder to the Chinese Embassy that they have no right to impose their will on citizens of other countries (nor on citizens of their own, for that matter!)

Twenty help line operators who will give assistance to human trafficking victims and help prevent others falling into such traps are being trained by the OSCE Mission in Kyiv.

From the coordinator of the UK-based Holodomor.org.uk site, campaigning for the UK to recognise Holodomor as an act of genocide. It is indeed unseemly to hide behind alleged “disputes among academics” when asked to respond to a tragedy and injustice of the magnitude of Holodomor.

On Monday 25 June, on the eve of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a joint press conference organized by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group and the International Women’s Rights Centre “La Strada – Ukraine” will discuss the use of torture by officials in Ukraine

The tragedy of Salina is one with that of Bykivnya, Sandarmokh and Babi Yar. They tried to wipe the memory of this tragedy from the face of the earth, to make it forgotten, driven from people’s minds. However it moved and continues to move our hearts with one short word: REMEMBER!

In the last few days the Minister of Education spoke out in a recent television interview in favour of children with HIV NOT attending school together with other children.

In the last few days the Minister of Education spoke out in a recent television interview in favour of children with HIV NOT attending school together with other children.

On 21 June the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture published its report on its visit to Ukraine in 2005, together with the response of the Ukrainian Government

At a recent meeting the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union drew attention to the long-standing human rights problems of torture, ill-treatment, and police violence in Ukraine

In one of the most notorious cases from 2001 where journalists were killed in Ukraine, the Prosecutor General had actually called for a harsher sentence

One of the “Anti-Crisis” Coalition’s staggering appointments – that of ex-Deputy from the Communist Party Olha Ginsburg to head the State Archive Committee – took on a sinister note this week when Ms Ginsburg spoke out in favour of classifying documents about communist repressions

To mark Belarusian Solidarity Day on 16 June, the civic initiative “Solidarnist” will be holding a protest action near the Belarusian Embassy to call for an end to the flagrant violation by the Belarusian authorities of the right to freedom of expression and access to information in Belarus

Present plans for creating yet another agency would appear to reflect the Government’s concern to rake in profits from selling emission quotas at the expense of real implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, and needless to add, at the expense of our shared planet