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.

Nina Karpachova’s "resume is an incredible and convincing illustration of the devaluation of the moral principles of the present power elite, of the double standards with which the so-called “democratic” leaders try to measure the most fundamental concept for civilized nations of “human rights”.

The author looks at the recent rollercoaster movements in Ukrainian politics, taking a harsh view of losses and failures, while affirming the values and the ongoing power of Maidan which lie deeper than politicians’ games and slogans

An Open Appeal stressing the vital importance of restoring public confidence in the independence and impartiality of this important office

A careful analysis of the case of the Novosibirsk man charged with inciting emnity towards Russians on a Ukrainian forum has brought to light some highly interesting details

The Ivanivka Settlement Council has banned a concert of Christian songs near the settlement club under a ban on “any activities of totalitarian sects”

A summary of the main features of the report just published by KHPG. the "Maidan" Alliance and the civic organization "Vsesvit"

More on the Ministry of Justice’s new procedure for ensuring that normative legal acts comply with the European Convention on Human Rights

When the public proves that the stamps being used to hide normative acts are illegal, the authorities could change their ways. Some unfortunately prefer to change the words

The Radio Svoboda Correspondent was sentenced in August to 6 years imprisonment together with two human rights activists in a case that provoked outrage from human rights organizations

On the work of the public reception centre of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in the first 6 months of 2006

There may be many more mass graves on Ukrainian territory, but access to the NKVD archives in Moscow is now needed and that road is closed to Ukrainian researchers

The Sandarmokh Clearing in Karelia holds the unnamed graves of around 12,000 victims of the Terror, including more than 1100 Ukrainians from the Solovky Embarkation

The Kharkiv Working Group of the International Society for Human Rights Ukrainian Section has issued a statement regarding the need for work in the area of health care

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union had pointed out that vehicle registration on the basis of registration at ones place of residence infringes certain constitutional rights.

Human beings are so difficult - they can’t even be ill in accordance with centralized medical certificate issue quotas

Prisoners are held in overcrowded cells, and only this year have people suffering from tuberculosis started receiving proper treatment, and then not all of them

An association of civic networks and organizations from different regions of Ukraine which have formed one network to work together in the interests of civic society. They extend an invitation to all who support the enclosed Declaration to join them

A harrowing story which for the author has fuly confirmed his suspicion that those who commit acts of torture and brutality in their work cannot fail to be brutalized as people