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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 200 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…

PUBLIC HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER

2. Provision of legal aid The majority of people contact the public reception directly on reception days (every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu. from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.). Consultations are provided in the majority – orally, but there are also…

PUBLIC COUNCIL ON HUMAN RIGHTS

For each fact of identified deficiencies, an instruction is sent to the regional municipal executive authority, deadlines are set for eliminating the identified deficiencies, and official inspections are carried out. At the beginning of 2009, members of the Public Council,…

MOBILE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS

5 public order protection points in Chernihiv were visited. All the remarks that were revealed during these inspections were set out by the Assistant Minister in a letter to the Head of the Chernihiv MV of the Ministry of Internal…