Category Events_en

EUROPEAN WEEK AGAINST RACISM

However, so far no clear reaction has been received from law enforcement agencies and government structures to these events: extremist movements continue to function, the city of Chernihiv is filled with fascist “graffiti”, calls for the oppression of migrants are…

HUMAN RIGHTS IN BELARUS

The Assembly needed to stop the practice of politically motivated people being dismissed from work, expelled from educational institutions, as well as “the practice of politically motivated unjustified enlistment of public activists for military service.”

The application contains a demand…

ATTACK ON A REFUGEE

But, after 3 days in a temporary detention center, our “humane” justice released the “nationally conscious” attacker on a recognizance not to leave. The attacker’s relatives and friends tried to threaten the Chechen family, sending unknown people, even with weapons,…

HUMAN RIGHTS IN BELARUS

The event aroused great interest among the participants, as it consisted of both theoretical classes and a practical part, during which it was possible to get acquainted with the international experience of building good governance in a fairly broad sense.…

COMBATING XENOPHOBIA AND RACISM

Tukhan Ediev called on law enforcement officials to take all necessary measures to stop calls for discrimination and violence against representatives of national and other minorities, drew the attention of those present to the need for legislative and administrative guarantees…

TORTURE IN THE POLICE

The First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Head of the Central Department of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Deputy Head of the Internal Security Service of the Ministry, and representatives of…

HUMAN RIGHTS IN BELARUS

Given the school’s focus on maximum involvement of Ukrainian, Belarusian and international specialists with practical experience in building civil society, the following teachers served as teachers: Volodymyr Vaisman – international expert of the Helsinki Movement (Denmark), Stasis Kaushinis – head…

HELPING VICTIMS OF TORTURE

Cases that are of special interest to the Center

, concern the following problems:

the use of torture in the police and in other closed institutions;

unjustified violence by law enforcement officers during detention;

suspicious death while…

COMBATING RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA

As Mr. Ediev noted: “Already today, the press and the local population are creating an incorrect attitude towards foreigners. Refugees, asylum seekers and “illegal immigrants” for ordinary citizens are identical concepts and are most often associated with various infectious diseases.”…