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Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union now has 30 member organizations
04.04.2011
The UHHRU is pleased to welcome a new member of the Union – the Postup [Progress] Human Rights Centre in Luhansk which seeks to provide comprehensive defence of human rights and promote human rights awareness in Ukraine
Docudays UA coming your way
19.03.2011
The 8th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA begins in Kyiv next week. From 25 to 31 March film showings will take place in the House of Cinema and the Goethe Institute. As always, there will also be a range of seminars, master classes and other events.
Human rights in Ukraine: assessment of the new regime’s first year
03.03.2011
An overview of the most worrying trends in Ukraine seen during 2010 with a significant deterioration in observance of most human rights and freedoms
Ukrainian human rights organizations present Human Rights in Ukraine 2009 – 2010
24.02.2011
The human rights organizations’ report on the human rights situation in the country during 2009 and 2010 was presented at a press conference on 24 February
HRW: Governments Soft-Talking Abusers
25.01.2011
Too many governments are accepting the rationalizations and subterfuges of repressive governments, replacing pressure to respect human rights with softer approaches such as private "dialogue" and "cooperation," Human Rights Watch said on Monday in releasing its World Report 2011
2010 Thistle of the Year Anti-Award Recipients announced
10.12.2010
Laureates for this ignominious anti-award bestowed on the worst human rights offenders during the year include the Minister of Internal Affairs A. Mohylyov for deliberate disregard for human rights and the Head of the Security Service [SBU], V. Khoroshkovsky for systematic restriction of civil liberties
Prominent contenders for the Thistle of the Year Anti-Award
17.11.2010
Nominees for the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union’s anti-award for worst human rights offenders include Valery Khoroshkovsky, Head of the SBU, the Ministers of Internal Affairs and Education and the President’s Administration
Helsinki Accords: The Joan Baez Stuff Still Works
03.08.2010
It is precisely because of the loss of faith in these nonviolent human rights ideals among the young that we older Helsinki watchers have to rededicate ourselves to the very basics -- freedom of the media and freedom of association -- at a time of the proliferation of single issues and increasingly exotic rights
VII International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays.UA
24.03.2010
Docudays.UA, with an exciting range of documentary films from many countries will take place in Kyiv from 26 March to 2 April at the House of Cinema (6, Saksanska St)
Human rights in Ukraine after the presidential elections: problem issues
19.03.2010
We are forced to state that the actions of the new administration over its first month of work do not indicate any intention to improve the situation, but on the contrary, are aimed at putting an end even to those positive trends which had emerged
Our Documentary Film Festival needs Your Help!
09.03.2010
The Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays.UA has become an internationally known event, enabling Ukrainians to view films and reflect on vital human rights issues and film producers to learn and share experience with colleagues from other countries
Human Rights in Ukraine
05.03.2010
An overview of the human rights situation in Ukraine over the last twenty years
Property issues, patients’ rights, fighting sexual harassment – all in a day’s work
09.02.2010
These are just some of the issues the KHPG Advice Centre deals with in its work. Ludmila Klochko recently gave an interview in which she spoke of the work of the Public Advice Centre in 2009
Inadequate arsenal of protection
10.12.2009
On the eve of Human Rights Day on 10 December Roman Romanov, Director of the Rule of Law Programme for the International Renaissance Foundation talked about progress and obstacles to affirming human rights values
Pro bono and human rights protection
16.11.2009
In Ukraine there are a large number of legal firms, yet only a few carry out pro bono projects and even less conduct such activities in the sphere of human rights protection
Human rights education conference in Kyiv
03.11.2009
A conference was held on 29 and 30 October in Kyiv on “Development of human rights education in Ukraine”, initiated by the educational programme “We understand human rights”
International Film Festival Docudays UA hits the road
18.10.2009
On 5 October 2009 the sixth Travelling Human Rights Film Festival Docudays UA began a tour which will enable the residents of more than 100 cities and populated areas to view the best films of world documentary film-making
Mothballs from the Human Rights Ombudsperson
01.09.2009
On 24 June 2009 the Ombudsperson presented parliament with a her "annual report", the fifth in 11 years, which uses the results of monitoring on human rights in 2006-2007
How long can you stand stil?
07.07.2009
Volodymyr Yavorsky, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, answers questions regarding the human rights situation in 2008
Freedom House: Democracy Suffers Dark Year in Former Communist States
03.07.2009
Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new Freedom House study finds widespread declines in democracy from Central Europe to Eurasia, with Russia ranked as a consolidated authoritarian regime for the first time
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