Strategy for reforming criminal justice may get moving
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved an action plan for implementing the Strategy for reforming...
29 August 2008
News
“Totalitarian regimes usually block access to information before all else” – An interview with Volodymyr Yavorsky, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
What are the shortcomings in legislation on access to information? What exactly restricts people’s...
27 August 2008
Second-hand News
The conflict between Georgia and Russia showed the world that the worryingly militant rhetoric from...
18 August 2008
Strange welcome
It is truly difficult to fathom why the Kyiv Head of Police decided to talk...
13 August 2008
Stop the military aggression! – Open appeal from the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
The conflict between Georgia and Russia over the self-declared Republic of South Ossetia has already...
13 August 2008
No false notes
Martin Luther King wrote somewhere: “An eye for an eye and you become blind”. In...
11 August 2008
So what does “characteristic appearance” mean if not ethnic profiling?
A disappointing ruling from a Kharkiv court of appeal regarding the legitimacy of the actions...
11 August 2008
On 1 August the Supreme Court suspended the ruling of the Kyiv Court of Appeal from 2 July which ordered a review of a ruling from 1999 which formed the grounds for National Deputy David Zhvania to receive Ukrainian citizenship
Supreme Court defends Zhvania’s constitutional rights. On 1 August Ukraine’s Supreme Court suspended the ruling...
07 August 2008
Letter in defence of the Law: Refugees must not be extradited!
Please help us convince the authorities that they cannot break the law with impunity. On...
07 August 2008
Position of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union regarding the extradition of a refugee by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General
On 30 July 2008 the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU) issued an open appeal...
04 August 2008