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

At a recent seminar, the Government’s Representative on European Court of Human Rights affairs particularly stressed the need to eliminate problem involving inhumane and degrading treatment of people being held in custody.

The Committee’s monitoring of regional party (bloc) conferences and congresses showed that a lot was done behind the scenes, in a non-transparent manner and with the principle behind delegating representatives of the regions to congresses remaining unclear

Captain Ulman and two others charged with the cold blooded killing of six Chechen civilians have failed to appear in court. Why men facing twenty year sentences for multiple killings were free to wander is only one of the questions that must be asked

In a thoroughly extraordinary message to the Ukrainian people and PACE, the Cabinet of Ministers has reinstated State benefits to Kuchma cancelled in early 2005. One can only guess the extent of these benefits since the original instructions were, not surprisingly, classified

In a thoroughly extraordinary message to the Ukrainian people and PACE, the Cabinet of Ministers has reinstated State benefits to Kuchma cancelled in early 2005. One can only guess the extent of these benefits since the original instructions were, not surprisingly, classified

The media jury assessing documentary films from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in early April this year had an entirely understandable reason for being somewhat preoccupied: hard to judge films when there is a whole political “show” unfolding before you

According to the PACE Resolution issued on 19 April, all sides should accept the ruling of Ukraine’s Constitutional Court. The Assembly, however, also warned that pressure in any form on the judges of the Court was “intolerable”, and should be investigated and criminally prosecuted.. They also regretted that the government “has not complied with the formally valid decree (until proven otherwise) and has not allocated the required funding for these elections”.

I am inclined to think that in the conclusion given by Vsevolod Rechytsky, an honest lawyer who experiences almost physical pain from the constant disregard for the law, what has emerged triumphant is nonetheless pure legalism, while something crucial and of vital significance remains outside the equation

A request to understand that in the light of recent infringements of the Constitution and problems with public confidence in the Constitutional Court, the fairest and most constructive solution to Ukraine’s present difficulties lies through open, honest and democratic elections

A request to understand that in the light of recent infringements of the Constitution and problems with public confidence in the Constitutional Court, the fairest and most constructive solution to Ukraine’s present difficulties lies through open, honest and democratic elections

A top Party of the Regions Deputy told journalists in Strasbourg today that the decision to expel Oleh Kalashnikov, who in July last year attacked journalists outside the Verkhovna Rada, had almost “matured”. The day before Viktor Yanukovych told European Parliamentarians that Kalashnikov had not been expelled since there had been no Party congress

The group of journalists state in their appeal that there is an ever-rising number of illegal detentions and beatings of journalists by the police

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] is planning to pass a resolution on the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine, following an urgent debate on the situation in Ukraine

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] is planning to pass a resolution on the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine, following an urgent debate on the situation in Ukraine

The investigator who launched a criminal investigation into the non-observance by the Minister of Justice of the President’s Decree dissolving parliament has been dismissed

At the same time the Moscow Helsinki Group and the movement “For human rights” have announced that they are forming a commission to investigate the circumstances of the organizing and dispersing of the ““Marches of those in dissent”

The author believes the present argument over whether the President’s Decree dissolving parliament was constitutional reflects two opposing attitudes: those who focus on the letter of a given article out of context, and those who look at the spirit and democratic principles inherent in the Constitution as a whole

Yevgeny Kiselyov calls on Ukrainians watching or reading State-owned Russian media outlets to not take what is said close to heart since it bears no relation with reality. He also comments that he watches with envy how journalists work in Ukraine

The Russian FSB has demanded the recording of a Radio Echo Moskvy broadcast with Garry Kasparov. They want to decide whether calling on people to join a peaceful rally constitutes “a public call to carry out extremist activities” (Article 280 of the RF Criminal Code)