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NEWS
[20.11.08]
Unemployment could triple
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[18.11.08]
Yushchenko, Tymoshenko and Prosecutor General in the running for human rights anti-award
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[18.11.08]
Medvedev speaks of «so-called” Holodomor
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[18.11.08]
Bureaucratic torment for the disabled abolished
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[18.11.08]
Luhansk Region breaks all records in failure to provide information
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[12.11.08]
Government plans moral censorship of the media
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[12.11.08]
Trade unions ill-equipped to defend workers in hard times
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[12.11.08]
Holodomor claimed 3.2 million victims
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Discrimination
18.11.08
Trial by Headline
The Ukrainian version of this text was written as a response to a series of articles about and by skinheads published in the Vinnytsa newspaper “33 kanal”. Despite the paper’s invitation to participate in discussion, it proved unwilling to publish an article which pointed, amongst other things, to total misinformation. A very big thank you to the Institute for Mass Information (IMI), “Telekritika” and UNIAN who immediately responded to my request to publish the text!
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Discrimination
12.11.08
Without labels
We may sometimes be unsure which of the identical twins in our block we saw on the street but eyebrows would be raised if their parents needed identity tags so as not to mix them up. One egg, the same genome, yet they are two unmistakeably separate human beings, Labels do, of course, simplify matters – the more intelligent twin, the violinist … or the homosexual, the one with a disability.
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Freedom of expression
04.11.08
Injecting political will
My surge of interest in one of the debates between presidential hopefuls Obama and McCain, that is, McCain and Obama, waned swiftly. I did have time to note, however, that the presenter even alternated the order in which the two men were mentioned.
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Freedom of expression
28.10.08
UHHRU taken to court by Ukrainian Federation of Trade Unions
On 28 November 2007 the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union posted on its website an appeal from the National Confederation of Trade Unions of Ukraine [NCTU] under the title: “National Confederation of Trade Unions accuses the Federation of Trade Unions of corruption”.
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Refugees and migrants rights
24.10.08
European Court of Human Rights gives a judgement in the extradition case - SOLDATENKO V. UKRAINE
On the 28 September 2008, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the extradition of Nikolay Ivanovich Soldatenko to Turkmenistan would constitute a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) as well as a breach of Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) and of Article 5 §1 (f) and §4 (right to liberty and security).
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