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STATEMENT BY HUMAN RIGHTS ACTORS

Over the past two years, the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its office have been subject to regular attacks by representatives of extremist and neo-Nazi groups, who, due to the government’s connivance, have developed…

PROTECTION OF LANDOWNERS’ RIGHTS

In particular, the project provides for legal education among peasant landowners; holding public hearings on access to justice and protection of land ownership rights; holding training seminars for civil servants and public organizations of Chernihiv region on national and international…

LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

The Director of the Chernihiv City Employment Center, Oleksandr Zevchenko, welcomed the opening of the Center for Legal Assistance for Unemployed Women. He noted that recently there have been more and more cases of violation of labor legislation, especially by…

RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

In particular, Klaus Wolken, head of programs at the International Organization for Migration, told the seminar participants about the readmission procedure between Ukraine and the EU, and provided statistical data on the number of returned persons over the past three…

READMISSION AGREEMENT BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE EU

According to this agreement, Ukraine and the EU countries undertake to accept without unnecessary formalities their own citizens who have violated the stay regime on the territory of the other contracting party, as well as citizens of third countries, provided…

BE FREE 2010 WILL NOT HAPPEN

However, the official meeting between the organizing committee and the Chernihiv authorities scheduled for June 7 was canceled without explanation, after which the authorities, despite numerous appeals, did not give an official response to the application for holding the festival.…

INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST TORTURE

Ukrainian human rights activists are aware of more

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cases of torture and inhuman treatment of citizens by the police over the past 13 years. For many reasons, these cases rarely reach the courts, and when they do, the guilty…

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

According to lawyer Vyacheslav Yakubenko, who represented this case in court: “No one disputes the good intentions of the deputies: to overcome juvenile delinquency and child alcoholism in the region. But this is not a basis for

violating the constitutional…

LEGAL AID FOR CONVICTS

During the month, convicts are introduced to changes in civil, criminal, and penal legislation. A series of lectures on various areas of law is held, and convicts are admitted on legal issues. Convicts are provided with primary and secondary legal…

HUMAN RIGHTS IN BELARUS

Among the topics discussed during the seminar: implementation of human rights norms and decisions at the international and national levels, international forms of dispute resolution, protection of the right to fair justice, combating torture, cruel, inhuman and other treatment degrading…