Events

ANTI-TORTURE

The prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case. Nine police officers were investigated: Lieutenant Colonel, Deputy Head of the Department for Combating Organized Groups and Criminal Organizations of the UBOS Valery Pastukhov, Deputy Head of the Department for Combating Organized Groups and Criminal Organizations of the UBOS Major Vyacheslav Molokovsky, Senior Operations Officer for Particularly Important Cases Captain Andriy Tumarets, Head…

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MIGRATION PROCESSES

As for Chernihiv region, our region is among the leaders in the number of illegal migrants and applications for refugee status. However, not everyone is granted the coveted status. Most illegal immigrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan do not want to stay here. They strive to get to developed European countries.

The head of the migration service department in Chernihiv region,…

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HUMAN RIGHTS IN BELARUS

The main element of the project’s activities is the holding of human rights schools for representatives of Belarusian civil society. To date, 9 schools have been held. Among the topics considered in the lessons: human rights, democracy, freedom of association and freedom of peaceful assembly, actions of NGOs to protect public interests, experience in the development of democracy and human…

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PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS’ RIGHTS

The seminar was attended by representatives of the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the Danish Refugee Council, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the central and regional apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs for Human Rights in Chernihiv region, representatives of the Luhansk and Chernihiv District Administrative Courts, the Kyiv and Supreme…

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ACCESS TO JUSTICE

In general, residents of Chernihiv region, especially villagers, complain about legal ignorance and lack of qualified legal assistance. Therefore, providing legal assistance to victims of human rights violations is the main task of the project “Ensuring access to justice for victims of human rights violations in Chernihiv region”, which is currently being implemented by the Chernihiv Public Committee for the…

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BE FREE 2009

The organizers of the event were traditionally

“Belarusian Musical Alternative”

, the initiative

“Studfarmat”

and

“European Radio for Belarus”

. The partners

Be Free

were the Belarusian civil campaign

“Budzma”

and the Ukrainian

Chernihiv Rock Club

and

Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights

. The festival was held under the patronage

of the Chernihiv City Council

.…

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RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ACTIVITIES OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS BODIES

As part of the raid, all the detention rooms of the delivered persons in the city, all the offices of the employees who were at their workplaces in the evening, were checked for

unauthorized actions (night interrogations,

beatings of citizens).

At the public order protection points, members of the mobile group interviewed all the citizens who were there at the…

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