Open Appeal to the President of Ukraine and State Deputies of Ukraine from Ukrainian human rights organizations

The author presents clear and detailed suggestions for constructive movement forward for this important institution, inviting much greater cooperation with nongovernmental human rights organizations

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

KhPG marked 26 June - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - by holding a press conference to present results and tasks for the future

The new provisions, if accepted, would do little to curb real extremism, but would seriously endanger civil liberties

Yevhen Zakharov and Arkady Bushchenko discuss progress and changes still needed to eradicate the use of torture

New information technology but the same fundamental rights and freedoms: the real challenge now being legal regulation to ensure post-Soviet hankerings for control are given short shrift

Yet one more disturbingly squalid example of lawlessness among precisely those state bodies whose role it is to defend the law

Personal reflections on Andrei Sakharov

It took one individual a long journey all the way to the cassation court to establish her right to information about the Secretariat of the Human Rights Ombudsperson (!)

The author points to grave violations of Ukraine’s labour laws in the conditions imposed on district electoral commission members, and to the dangers of such a workload

The author points to logical inconsistencies in the voting rights of convicted prisoners, as well as to the obvious lack of the components of free and fair elections in Ukrainian penal institutions

The anonymous survey presents some cheering findings, as does the cooperation the local group encountered, however the level of ignorance about Ukraine’s international commitments is disturbing

One Ukrainian has taken on a number of Ministries whose demand that doctors divulge information about their patients’ health, she asserts, is in contravention of the Constitution of Ukraine and the European Convention

An interview with KHPG legal expert and lawyer, Arkady Bushchenko and journalist Volodymyr Boiko

Information reaching KHPG suggest the authorities are attempting to downplay the recent cases of inmates resorting to acts of self-injury in order to draw attention to their plight

Worrying developments involving the introduction of single identification cards which could lead to a frightening amount of personal data being unjustifiedly shared by different state bodies

On the depressing and apparently incomprehensible plan fermenting in certain minds in Russia to erect a memorial to Joseph Stalin

The author refers to a letter he has received from the State Penal Department regarding his appeals on behalf of prisoners.