We have already reported on the Security Service’s plans for gaining control of the Russian segment of the Internet-space. We have now received information suggesting that there are plans to impose such control over the entire CIS!

It was written much about the absence of efficient protection of rights and interests of citizens in Ukraine. However, in spite of general declarations, intentions and promises to improve the situation, no concrete measures were taken: the operating laws were not changed, and new laws were not created

In connection with active discussion of patients’ rights in the recent numbers of the bulletin “Prava ludyny”, we want to propose to our readers the brief information about the work of the program “Hippocrates” in the Rivne region. We also want to tell about our successes and failures and to present our propositions aimed at development of human rights protection movement in the Rivne region

According to information given by senior lieutenant of justice S. Trubchaninov, a deputy of the military prosecutor of the Kharkiv garrison, during 2005 the officers of military prosecutor’s office of the Kharkiv garrison has taken preventive measures against illegal bullying and other forms of pressure by senior military personnel. As a result, no facts of dedovshchina were registered during the first six months of 2005

The events around the all-Ukrainian medical-social Center in the village of Tsybli of the Kyiv region may result in its liquidation

During the past ten years the state of mental health of Ukrainian citizens has noticeably deteriorated – this negative trend has been reported by Ukrainian psychiatrists

The newspaper “Litsa” told the detailed story about its striving for information on the checks of legality of use of land areas located in the Dnepropetrovsk region

After the revolutionary events in Ukraine and in the Zakarpatska region, new authorities, in particular new head of the regional state administration Viktor Baloga, decided to take over the control of the independent Hungarian-language press, which dared to elucidate the events in the light negative for state officials

The prosecutor’s office of the Trostianets district of the Sumy region has completed the investigation of the criminal case against the head of the joint-stock company “Spartak”, who is accused of brutal violation of election laws

A document under the title “On some results of the work of the Security Service of Ukraine during the first half-year of 2005”, which can be found at http://www.sbu.gov.ua/reports/ann20-07-2005-1.shtml, suggests that such violations are rampant.

The right to employment, as well as other labour rights, is an inherent right like the right to life. The reality of our social-economic rights depends on the reality of this right. Changes in political, economic and social conditions have resulted in radical changes in our country, and violations of elementary rights connected with labour relations have become common.

27 September 2005, the Kharkiv Human Rights Group (KHPG) issued an “Open letter regarding the threat of ‘political reform’ in Ukraine. Today, in this “Memorandum” we will attempt to go somewhat deeper into the arguments presented succinctly in the open letter. In contrast to previous publications of the KHPG about the ‘reform’, here we propose to consider its basic conception and the attempts at implementing it on the formal judicial, purely procedural level.

Planned amendments to the Constitution

Monument “To the Slaughtered Sons and Daughters of Ukraine” in the Sandarmokh Clearing (Karelia)

Open Letter from the “Maidan” Alliance to the President of Ukraine

Specialists of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine have prepared a Draft Law “On introducing amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine” in connection with the future ratification of the Statute of the International Criminal Court...

Press Release of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union 15 September 2005

A Constitutional and legal analysis of Leonid Kravchuk’s statement regarding the possibility of launching impeachment proceedings against the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko