Human rights violators get their just thistles
The Thistle of the Year Anti-Awards for 2007 were announced on 10 December, Human Rights...
15 December 2007
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So who is silence golden for?
In Soviet times you talked of writing “for the drawer”. There was no chance of...
15 December 2007
Attempt to silence human rights defenders
Early Sunday evening, 9 December, on the eve of Human Rights Day, the server supporting...
14 December 2007
UN Committee on economic, social and cultural rights issues concluding observations and recommendations on report of Ukraine
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its thirty-ninth session and issued...
27 November 2007
Out of the shadows
The headlines were shocking, with “Xenophobia is the norm in Ukraine” just one. In panic...
12 November 2007
Open letter from the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group to Vasyl Koshchynets, Head of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences
As reported here, in January 2007 following a brief hunger strike by prisoners and a...
09 November 2007
Slovakia on EU migration frontline
“I’m from an orphanage, I have no family, no home, nothing in Russia. I want...
04 November 2007
Parallel Report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and the International Renaissance Foundation regarding Ukraine’s implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Prepared by:– The All-Ukrainian Association of civic human rights organizations – the “Ukrainian Helsinki Human...
02 November 2007
Yevhen Zakharov: “The State always nurtures the desire for control”
How would you assess the present human rights situation in Ukraine?It all depends on which...
02 November 2007
Fastidious disgust but firm measures
The Eurasian Youth Union raised its ugly head in Ukraine on Friday, with the desecration...
25 October 2007