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Psychiatric and psychoneurological boarding schools in Chernihiv region: torture instead of help

People who haven’t left their premises for years. Neglected wards with bedsores. Wet diapers instead of diapers. A stench that makes your eyes water. Instead of rehabilitation, there is “occupational therapy”, including on the homestead plots of the boarding school employees. Monitoring groups of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) witnessed such conditions of stay in psychoneurological institutions of the Chernihiv…

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Chernihiv joined “Europe without human trafficking!”

On October 18, public activists, representatives of relevant state institutions, law enforcement agencies and caring Chernihiv residents celebrated the European Day against Trafficking in Human Beings.

At 1:00 p.m., at the same time, blue and yellow gel balls were launched into the sky in many cities of Ukraine as a sign of solidarity on this day and joining efforts to…

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Ombudsman representatives: patients in the Horodnyansk psychoneurological boarding school for women are in terrible conditions

Employees of the Department for the Implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Commissioner’s Secretariat, together with representatives of the public (Serhiy Burov, Oleksandra Lynowitska and Lyudmila Dovhobrod), conducted a monitoring visit to the Horodnyansk Psychoneurological Boarding House for Women in the Chernihiv region.

The monitoring group began its visit with the ward for bedridden people. The residents are…

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The action “Europe without human trafficking!” will take place in Chernihiv.

On October 18, 2015, public activists will hold an action under the slogan “Europe without human trafficking!”, timed to coincide with the European Day against Trafficking in Human Beings. The event is aimed at drawing the attention of state institutions and the population to the problem of human trafficking in the regions.

The political and economic situation in Ukraine has…

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Elderly people from the Kozeletsk geriatric boarding house are left alone with their illnesses

This was established by the monitoring group of the Department for the Implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Commissioner’s Secretariat together with public monitors during a visit to the Kozeletsk Geriatric Boarding House of the Chernihiv Regional Council.

Out of 201 wards, 103 are disabled, 43 are bedridden, and 45 are physically disabled. In fact, all have serious…

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The court ordered the Chernihiv City Council to publish the General Plan of the city

The Desnyanskyi District Court of Chernihiv, by its resolution of October 1, 2015, declared the refusal of access to the materials of the General Plan of the city unlawful, and also obliged the Chernihiv City Council to provide the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights with a copy of the General Plan of the city and to…

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Chernihiv “Chernobyl residents” are fighting for their rights

Local authorities have illegally deprived over 70 residents of Chernihiv region, who became disabled due to the Chernobyl accident, of their status as Chernobyl survivors. Most of them suffer from thyroid cancer.

Local authorities have illegally deprived over 70 residents of Chernihiv region, who became disabled due to the Chernobyl accident, of their status as Chernobyl survivors. Most of them…

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