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• Topics / Politics and human rights
When mystery turns into low-grade situation comedy
22.09.2006
On Nina Karpachovas announcement that she is renouncing her deputys mandate and remaining Human Rights Ombudsperson
Karpachova decides to hand in her parliamentary mandate
22.09.2006
She apparently intends to remain Human Rights Ombudsperson
47 Deputies question the recent law restricting the scope of the Constitutional Court
20.09.2006
47 Deputies have put forward a submission to the Constitutional Court demanding that the amendments to the Law “On the Constitutional Court” containing such a norm be declared unconstitutional.
Missing one Human Rights Ombudsperson
20.09.2006
On the mysterious ways of some State Deputies and on a human rights post that is much too serious for political hide and seek
Ukraine, together with the Baltic States, deemed the only free postSoviet states
08.09.2006
Freedom Houses annual report also states that Russia has consolidated its position as a “not free country”, while certain other post-Soviet states have even entered the list of the “Worst of the worst”, i.e. the most repressive countries of the world
UNIAN detects a fall in the transparency level of the authorities
06.09.2006
A worrying trend, with the greatest reductions in transparency rating seen for the Ministries of Finance and of the Economy and the Ministry for Environmental Protection
30 August is International Day of the Disappeared
30.08.2006
On this day human rights groups join the UN Working Group in calling on all countries to put an end to enforced disappearances and secret detention
Not so easy to restrict the Constitutional Court
08.08.2006
The amendments introduced to the Law on the Constitutional Court cannot stop it from considering the “political reform” – the constitutional amendments of December 2004
Trading away the Constitution
06.08.2006
My question, which I will attempt to provide the background for below, is therefore far removed from legal finesse: Put most primitively, how can the countrys legislative body prohibit the Constitutional Court from determining the constitutionality of laws passed on Ukrainian territory where the “Constitution of Ukraine has the highest legal force. Laws and other normative legal acts are adopted on the basis of the Constitution of Ukraine and shall conform to it”
The Verkhovna Rada wishes to tie the hands of the Constitutional Court
04.08.2006
The Verkhovna Rada has tried to put through a law which will stop the Constitutional Court deciding on the consitutitonality of the amendments to the Constitution adopted on 8 December 2004 ("the political reform")
Address to the National Roundtable at the Presidents Secretariat on 27 July 2006
29.07.2006
Address to the National Roundtable on 27 July 2006 during a meeting between the President of Ukraine, political forces and public figures on 27 July 2006
29.07.2006
CARNIVAL AS CATHARSIS (OR “GOOD TO REMEMBER”)
19.07.2006
The well-known dissident and author of "HIstorys carnival" suggests, and in fascinating detail demonstrates the efficacy of, a carnival method of fighting past and present ills
For all the victims
16.07.2006
On this Belarusian Solidarity Day a call to honour the memory of all victims of regimes which assume they can act with impunity and to remember we have the power to prove them wrong
Lutyev sentenced to 8 years
14.07.2006
The first actions of the Party of the Regions – are they really so harmless?
13.07.2006
The author suggests that the recent spurt of decisions declaring areas, at least one of which is tiny and thoroughly agricultural, NATO-free may not be as comical as it seems, and may have serious repercussions for human rights
A call to the President to stop anti-Ukrainian lawlessness
03.07.2006
The author, a political prisoner in Soviet times, makes an impassioned plea to President Yushchenko to not remain silent when the rights of simple Ukrainians and Ukraines archival heritage are under attack
The Post of Human Rights Ombudsperson must not form a part of coalition deals
02.07.2006
Open Appeal to the President of Ukraine and State Deputies of Ukraine from Ukrainian human rights organizations
Some thoughts on the Human Rights Ombudsperson
01.07.2006
The author presents clear and detailed suggestions for constructive movement forward for this important institution, inviting much greater cooperation with nongovernmental human rights organizations
Like it or not, Karpachova will continue as Human Rights Ombudsperson
06.06.2006
A shame that the Human Rights Ombudsperson did not heed the repeated calls of human rights organizations to not mix this important office with political activities much earlier
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