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Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union offers assistance to victims of police and “titushok” actions

Human rights activists are ready to help victims defend their rights, including in the European Court of Human Rights.

Do not put up with injustice. Together we can make the state answer for its barbaric attitude towards its own citizens.

Victims of events related to Euromaidan in Kyiv and the regions of Ukraine can contact human rights activists.

We will…

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Local communities are learning to combat corruption in land relations

On January 28, 2014, a seminar “Mechanisms for Preventing Corruption in the Field of Land Relations” was held in Chernihiv for land managers of village and settlement councils of Chernihiv region.

The main topic of the discussion was the discussion of the problems of unregulated land and property relations in the field, which may push dishonest officials to corrupt actions.…

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Online legal advice is now available to residents of Chernihiv region

On January 23, 2014, the first meeting of the Remote Point for Providing Legal Consultations was held in the premises of the Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific Library named after V.G. Korolenko.

The pilot session was attended by Volodymyr Bobruyko, Deputy Head of the Main Department of Justice in Chernihiv Region, Igor Puzan, Head of the Department of Land Management and…

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Legal advice — online

Free legal services for residents of remote areas will become more accessible. They will be consulted using the latest information technologies. For example, professional lawyers will provide advice to citizens using video communication. These innovations have begun to be implemented in the Chernihiv region by the Charitable Organization “All-Ukrainian Coalition for Legal Aid” and the Chernihiv Public Committee for the…

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Who will help deal with legal arbitrariness?

Who has not encountered our all-encompassing bureaucracy, who has not fought against the injustice of our Themis and who has not tried to overcome the greed and hardness of dear lawyers, especially those representing the opposite side? Probably, every Ukrainian and Chernihiv resident in particular goes through this. But to overcome the clumsy bureaucratic machine alone is an impossible task.…

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Representatives of the Ombudsman revealed violations of patients’ rights at the Chernihiv Psychoneurological Hospital

This conclusion was made by the monitoring group of the Department for the Implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Commissioner’s Secretariat together with the regional coordinator of the Commissioner for Public Relations in Chernihiv region Alla Lepekha and the head of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights Viktor Tarasov, who visited the Chernihiv Regional…

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Where do migrants “disappear”?… And the money allocated for them

In 2000, the UN General Assembly declared 18 December International Migrants Day, in recognition of the large and growing number of migrants in the world. Today, around 191 million people live outside their countries of origin. And cases of exploitation and discrimination against migrants still occur around the world.

Today, irregular migration remains consistently high, as people from countries affected…

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