Events

A project to implement the National Mechanism for Interaction of Entities Countering Human Trafficking is being launched in Chernihiv Oblast. This was announced at a press conference on October 17, 2014, on the eve of the European Day of Combating Human Trafficking, by Nataliya Piddubna, Program Manager of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights.

Oksana Serdyuk,…

“Special” voters of Chernihiv region, who found themselves in social, legal and informational isolation, will be able to more effectively exercise and protect their rights in the 2014 snap elections of people’s deputies thanks to the relevant Memorandum prepared by the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights.

The 2014 snap elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine will…

On October 14, 2014, a discussion took place in Chernihiv on practical aspects of preparing for and holding parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014 at special polling stations in Chernihiv region, as well as promoting the free and transparent expression of will of socially and informationally isolated voters, including those who will vote in penitentiary, medical and socio-medical institutions in…

On October 14, 2014, a focus group was held in the premises of the Chernihiv Regional Court of Appeal, attended by 10 court employees (a judge of the criminal court chamber, a judge of the civil court chamber, a chief of staff, assistant judges, and a head of the personnel and civil service department).

The purpose of the event was…

As part of the activities of the national preventive mechanism, a monitoring visit was carried out to the Nizhyn orphanage by the regional coordinator for public relations of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Chernihiv region Alla Lepekha and the head of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights Viktor Tarasov.…

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union calls for professional legal assistance:

–

Participants of the ATO or their relatives

who were subjected to

torture, were/are in captivity

– Relatives of participants of the ATO who

were injured or died during service

Human rights defenders will help

restore justice

, in particular

obtain compensation

for the damage caused, and will do…

A training was held in Chernihiv for employees of district employment centers of Chernihiv region on the prevention and counteraction of human trafficking committed for the purpose of labor exploitation.

The main objective of the event was to increase the competence of representatives of basic employment centers of Chernihiv region on the problem of human trafficking in order to realize…