The role of the media in ensuring public awareness and participation in local self-government is outlined in this useful manual

This new interactive textbook "Human Rights and the Police", to be piloted in September, should provide practical guidance and training for future police officers on how to treat people they detain

Closed circuit cameras have been installed in one Kharkiv police station and could become a restraining factor in other police stations as well

A Kyiv court convicted Viktor Sych of "professional negligence" and handed down a four-year suspended sentence

While certain violations involving torture and ill-treatment are noticeably absent from this official press release, some violations of civil rights are fully acknowledged

A valuable educational initiative aimed at ensuring that from their first day on the job, law enforcement personnel know that human rights are not expendable, and that the aim NEVER justifies some means

More details on the positve move which should help protect the rights of individuals detained by law enforcement bodies

On 28 December the first sitting of the newly created Ministry of Internal Affairs Public council for the Observance of Human Rghts was held.

On 29 November 2005 the first spot check of a mobile group, created by order of Yu.ry Lutsenko, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, for control over the observance by police of the standards of human rights, was carried out in the Chernihiv region

An interesting paradox situation has formed in Ukraine, when bribery among officials is tightly connected with the official “bribery” of power organs in the form of getting charitable contributions for their special funds. Such officially established system of state bribing is inadmissible, and its liquidation should become the first step toward extermination of corruption in our country

“The service check did not confirm the statement that the militiamen violated the operating law by their actions. The information on the allegedly existing order about the beating of fans was not confirmed too”. The official response of the PR department of the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine accompanied with the commentary of the “Prava ludyny” editorial board

The appeal on unlawful actions of militia regarding the viewers at the soccer match “Dynamo” – “Shakhtar” on 29 May 2005 in Kyiv

The Kharkiv Regional Department of the Ministry of Interior informed the KhG about the results of check of the information published on the site “Maydan”, which concerned the violations of operating laws by officers of law-enforcing organs. Co-chairman of the KhG Evhen Zakharov has serious doubts as to impartiality of this check.

The seminar was conducted on 31 January in Zhytomir.

The events in Mukachevo that took place in the end of 2003 and the beginning of 2004 became the object of consideration at the sitting of the Supreme Rada Committee in charge of the legislative provision of law-enforcement activities.

The sitting was held on 5 November and was devoted to the reform of militia.