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In particular, the project provides for legal education among peasant landowners; holding public hearings on access to justice and protection of land ownership rights; holding training seminars for civil servants and public organizations of Chernihiv region on national and international mechanisms for protecting land ownership rights and ensuring access to justice; direct legal assistance to peasants; monitoring of compliance with…

Over the past two years, the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its office have been subject to regular attacks by representatives of extremist and neo-Nazi groups, who, due to the government’s connivance, have developed their activities in the city in recent years. For example, in April 2009, the committee’s premises were attacked at night,…

In particular, Klaus Wolken, head of programs at the International Organization for Migration, told the seminar participants about the readmission procedure between Ukraine and the EU, and provided statistical data on the number of returned persons over the past three years. According to the European expert, statistics show that

in recent years the number of returned persons has hardly increased.…

The Director of the Chernihiv City Employment Center, Oleksandr Zevchenko, welcomed the opening of the Center for Legal Assistance for Unemployed Women. He noted that recently there have been more and more cases of violation of labor legislation, especially by employers who openly discriminate against the unemployed, especially women. The unemployed, in turn, are unable to adequately respond to these…

According to this agreement, Ukraine and the EU countries undertake to accept without unnecessary formalities their own citizens who have violated the stay regime on the territory of the other contracting party, as well as citizens of third countries, provided that they present evidence stipulated by this agreement. The activity of such an instrument in Ukraine-EU relations, unfortunately, so far…

However, the official meeting between the organizing committee and the Chernihiv authorities scheduled for June 7 was canceled without explanation, after which the authorities, despite numerous appeals, did not give an official response to the application for holding the festival. It was verbally stated that the event would not be allowed.

“From informal sources, we learned that the Chernihiv authorities…

Ukrainian human rights activists are aware of more

200

cases of torture and inhuman treatment of citizens by the police over the past 13 years. For many reasons, these cases rarely reach the courts, and when they do, the guilty law enforcement officers receive suspended or minor sentences. However, from the Chernihiv region alone, the European Court of Human Rights…