The draft laws sent back for revision were on liability for corrupt offences, the principles for preventing and countering corruption and on the liability of legal entities for corruption offences.

“European Union leaders must demand that Russia restores a degree of pluralism and free expression into the media.”

Yet another jury trial in St Petersburg has ended in acquittals or verdicts quashing charges involving ethnic emnity

Over the last two months, the program “Families without violence” has been carrying out awareness raising measures aimed at preventing violence against children in the family in various districts of the Kherson region.

Over the last two months, the program “Families without violence” has been carrying out awareness raising measures aimed at preventing violence against children in the family in various districts of the Kherson region.

The author argues that doctors must be freed from idiotic paperwork, and recognized as professionals able to make responsible decisions - and answer for them

A number of human rights activists were detained in Nazran (Ingushetia), including members of the Red Cross and the human rights centre “Memorial”.

On 11 October, as part of the Second Kyiv International Media Forum, a roundtable was held on “How legal problems are impeding the democratic development of the Ukrainian mass media”.

The Human Rights Centre “Memorial” is outraged over the ruling by a Russian court to close down the “Russian – Chechen Friendship Society" and warns that this proves the worst fears about the real aim of the law against extremism passed this summer

The Pechersky District Court in Kyiv has found unlawful the criminal investigation launched against former deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Andriy Kozhemyakin who was accused of unlawful wiretapping of correspondent from the newspaper “Sevodnya” [“Today”) Oleksandr Korchynsky.

Life expectancy in Ukraine remains the lowest in Europe and mortality the highest, the Deputy Ministry for Employment and Social Policy stated last week at the International seminar on Mortality in countries of the former USSR. Fifteen years after break-up: change or continuity?

As on the sixteenth day of every month, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians and people showing their support in other countries will be lighting Candles for Freedom in their windows, staging street actions, etc, in solidarity

Volodymyr Yavorsky from the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union reports on the Warsaw OSCE Conference and how Ukraine is implementing its human-rights-related commitments

In Minsk more than one hundred Protestants have been on hunger strike for a week in protest at the decision of the Belarusian authorities to take their church and the site it’s on away from them

The Prosecutor General’s office continues refusing to provide information

In speaking about the historical reconciliation of soldiers of the Ukrainian Resistance Army and the Soviet Army, the President once again stressed that this conflict is based on a distorted knowledge of the period of history

All of those who wish to honour the memory of Anna Politkovskaya are asked at 9 o’clock this evening to turn off the lights in their flats and to burn a candle in their window.

The society’s executive director Stas Dimitrievsky was convicted in February over the publication of an appeal from Maskhadov and Zakaev in the newspaper “Pravozashchita” [“Human rights defence”]. Since his colleagues failed to condemn him for this the organization is to be liquidated.

A package of anti-corruption draft laws is scheduled for consideration at the Verkhovna Rada session on 18 October. Then we shall see whether the deputies can rise above their narrow political interests and will have an answer to the question in the title of this article.

Two cases reiterated that lack of funds are no excuse for not implementing court orders awarding compensation, and the third found a violation to Article 3 prohibiting inhuman or degrading treatment