Pandemic 2020 was a year of radical changes, and for many they were not for the better. However, there have been many positive developments in the field of human rights in Ukraine. Release of ‘LPR’ […]
06.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The State Security Committee (KGB) of the Republic of Belarus carried out extrajudicial verdicts delivered by the president to his opponents, as evidenced by an audio recording released by EUobserver. A 24-minute audio file, recorded on 11 April 2012, […]
05.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to the Viasna Belarusian Human Rights Centre, at least 112 people – 18 women and 94 men – in Belarus celebrated the New Year being under administrative arrest. The total number of citizens against […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
An MEP group sent letters of solidarity to Ukrainian political prisoners in the Russian Federation from the occupied Crimea. They addressed the messages to Remza Bekirov, Osman Arifmemetov, Yevhen Karakashev and Serhiy Filatov. The Crimean […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 30 December, a law reinstating the powers of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) and the liability for inaccuracies in asset declarations came into force. The law restores the powers of the NACP, including […]
31.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
On Wednesday, 30 December, the Iranian authorities instructed the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development to pay $150,000 to each family of the Ukraine International Airlines plane crash victims who died when the aircraft was […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny does not go off the information "radars" of the media outlets, exacerbating the already difficult situation. The Kremlin is in a political knockdown after a terrible international scandal […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Oleksandr Shumkov, a former Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin, said in an interview with the BBC that he had been tortured in a Russian prison, including being subjected to electric shocks. According to him, […]
26.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The General Prosecutor of Ukraine has changed the case's jurisdiction and transferred the criminal proceedings on the President's Office Deputy Head Oleh Tatarov from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) to the Security Service […]
24.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has launched an investigation into the case of a Ukrainian icon, which Serb BiH Presidency Member Milorad Dodik presented to Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian […]
19.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Iran has not properly investigated the crash of the Ukraine International Airlines aircraft that was shot down by the Iranian military near Tehran in January 2020. Many essential details of this tragedy are still unknown. […]
16.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Zdorovtsov family from Amvrosiyivka has been helping the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the armed aggression. They were not stopped by intimidation by local militants, broken windows, or threats of physical violence. However, […]
16.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The information note of the UN Monitoring Mission for Human Rights in Ukraine on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on handicapped people in Ukraine reported that only 15% of disabled Ukrainian children get access […]
15.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute, the International Charitable Foundation ISOLATION and journalist, writer and former political prisoner Stanislav Aseyev, presented the project "Isolyatsia: must speak." The presentation […]
14.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Museum of Justice is an online museum where today anyone can learn about the history of humanity's struggle for its rights and help protect those whose rights are being violated right now. The Museum […]
14.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine has faced particular brutality and disrespect for human rights. Since the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Russian Federation in 2014, human rights violations have become systemic and widespread there. "The human rights […]
11.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Venice Commission considers that Ukraine's Constitutional Court decision on certain provisions of the anti-corruption legislation unconstitutionality "has no clear arguments, solid foundations in international law and was adopted under the impact of a possible […]
10.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The University of Leuven (Belgium) has introduced a new system to ensure that outside partners in the future are not involved in any breach of human rights. The university already has an ethics committee that […]
10.12.2020 • Natalia Tolub
Most news covered by the regional online media outlets concern crime, emergencies, road accidents, and coronavirus, while human rights, ecology, and war in eastern Ukraine are the least covered topics. This is evidenced by results […]
10.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
YouControl analytical system experts have counted 80 courts which have so far announced the termination of dispatch of letters to litigants. That is, about 15% of Ukrainian courts no longer send inquiries necessary to ensure […]
09.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
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