Events

On June 26, 2012, on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the public organization “M’ART” and the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in Chernihiv held an action-exhibition in which they visually demonstrated the need to create a system for proper investigation of numerous cases of torture in Ukraine. The action was also held…

General indicators of the reception desk 1. Gender aspect During 2011, 986 people applied for legal assistance to the ChGKZPR, of whom 601 were women (61%), 385 were men (39%). The predominance of women is explained by the social orientation of the public reception desk. Namely, for 12 years, the reception desk lawyers have been providing legal assistance in resolving…

A seminar for representatives of public organizations of the Chernihiv region on the topic “Mechanisms for Ensuring the Right to Social Protection” was held in Chernihiv on March 2, 2012.

According to the executive director of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, Viktor Tarasov, the issues of effective protection of socio-economic rights, the problems of limiting…

Despite Ukraine’s international obligations, the rights and freedoms of asylum seekers in our country are still formal in nature. Even when appealing to the judicial branch of government in the interests of foreigners, human rights defenders often encounter bias and injustice of the court in cases of restoration of violated rights of asylum seekers and migrants.

If at the legislative…

The results of the activities of the Supervisory Commission of the Executive Committee of the Chernihiv City Council in 2011 were reported by its chairman, Stanislav Vikhrov. He recalled that the Supervisory Commission of the Executive Committee of the Chernihiv City Council was established by the decision of the Executive Committee dated July 20, 2010 No. 161. It consists of…

The participants of the initiative are convinced that

peaceful protest often remains the only way to influence the authorities. People take to the streets to demand a better life for themselves and their families, to defend fair salaries, pensions, scholarships and taxes. Hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens have already defended their interests through peaceful protests.

Currently, the Verkhovna…

In particular, due to its geographical location, the region, which borders four European Union countries, is considered exclusively as a transit area on the way of illegal migrants to European countries in the currently operating channels of illegal migration and is a key region in which accumulation, formation of groups and their subsequent transfer across the state border take place.…