One of the journalists who has resigned explains that the new management prohibited the journalists from covering the activities of the opposition and instructed them to provide mainly “positive news”.

David Irving, who recently spent 13 months in an Austrian prison for his extremely public denial of the Holocaust, appears to have misunderstood where he might fight a receptive audience. The organizers of the Warsaw International Book Fair swiftly removed any possible misunderstanding.

On Thursday evening activists of the Crimean Tatar Youth Centre organized and took part in a candle ceremony entitled ““Light a candle in your heart” in memory of the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars from the Crimea in May 1944.

The Human Rights Ombudsperson Nina Karpachova is politically engaged and falsifies checks into citizens’ complaints. These are some of the conclusions reached by the civic human rights organizations who have been monitoring her activities since she was re-appointed 100 days ago

On 16 May a festival of civic Ukrainian and Belarusian poetry was held outside the Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv. The meeting began with the lighting of candles in solidarity and remembrance near the photos of civic activists who disappeared without trace in Belarus

On the 63rd anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars ceremonies to honour the victims are to be held today and tomorrow throughout the Crimea

The Committee of Voters of Ukraine is outraged that such amendments to electoral legislation are being discussed without the involvement of civic organizations and specialists in the field. They also believe that if some of the proposed amendments were to be implemented, they would jeopardize the full organization of the electoral process

There may just be grounds for believing that some politicians do respond to public outrage, especially when it is fierce, as over the recently announced plans to make it possible to dismissal pregnant employees for “infringements of labour legislation”

The unveiling ceremony in the settlement of Mizhvodne was timed to coincide with the 63rd anniversary of the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars which began on 18 May 1944

Statement from the International Women’s Human Rights Centre “La Strada – Ukraine” in protest at the proposals by the Government to introduce amendments to labour legislation enabling employers to dismiss pregnant employees

An analysis of some of the problems in the electoral system, such as excessive focus on party allegiance, non-transparent candidate lists and discouragement of truly independent politicians

Those attending the annual remembrance ceremony at the “Bykivnya Graves” near Kyiv include relatives of the over 150 thousand victims buried in this place. There are also many who to this day do not know where the graves of their relatives lie.

One plan is to create a special database of illegal migrants. Human rights defenders fear that this could become a source of human rights abuses

The project participants are planning to investigate the possibilities of access to environmental information at central and regional level, and also take active measures to put an end to restrictions on such information

The project participants are planning to investigate the possibilities of access to environmental information at central and regional level, and also take active measures to put an end to restrictions on such information

In this year, so seeped in terrible anniversaries, is it not time to seriously speak of ensuring that our parents and grandparents are remembered, that the earth which bears their remains is honoured?

The Minister’s claim that making it possible to dismiss women who are pregant would prevent discrimination against women by potential employers is roundly condemned as sheer hypocrisy

Each year the memory is honoured of those émigrés who, in the first days after liberation from Nazism, became victims of Stalinist repression. Many of them, despite their Czechoslovakian citizenship, were sent to Soviet labour camps from where they were never to return

We need new procedural legislation, a change in court practice, new judges who know what evidence law is and what evidence is inadmissible. Another vital area is control over police detention, making sure that it is recorded and that time restrictions are observed

Valery Sushkevych, Head of the Ukrainian National Assembly of People with Disabilities is not optimistic about immediate prospects for Ukraine’s ratification of the Convention, and points to problems with legislation in Ukraine consistently not being applied