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Information website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group [javascript:history.back()] version: Ukrainian | Russian News » Projects Monthly bulletin Prava Ludyny (Human rights) » –olitics and human rights » Law enforcement agencies » The penal system » Our CIS neighbours » On refugees » Other topics Research » The constitution and human rights » Against torture and ill-treatment » The right to liberty and security » The right to a fair trial » The right to privacy » Access to information » Freedom of expression » Freedom of peaceful assembly » Prevention of discrimination and inequality » Prisoners' rights » The Security service in a constitutional democracy » Analysis of the human rights situation in Ukraine » Human rights and civil society » The history of dissent in Ukraine » Publications » —ampaigns » Archives KHPG » About us » Reports » Guestbook To receive our regular mailings, please leave your email » authorization » registration the version for mobile phone khpg.org/wap The website is created with assistance of the International Renaissance Foundation and National Endowment for Democracy (USA) 17.12.2008 A УUnique workФ by the Human Rights Ombudsperson The Human Rights Ombudsperson's Special Report, the first report , despite legal requirements, in 3 years, is lacking not only in recommendations on how to improve observance of international commitments, but on any detailed analysis of the situation at all »» 17.12.2008 Crisis driving migrant workers home Experts predict that around 200 thousand Ukrainian migrant workers may return from abroad. The State Committee of Statistics says that over 1.5 million Ukrainians are presently working in other countries »» 16.12.2008 Fabrication of criminal cases over Islamic extremism This appalling example of the methods used by the FSB and law enforcement agencies in Russia to recruit agents or fabricate charges makes the amendments planned to the Russian Criminal Code even more worrying »» 16.12.2008 Call for improvements on legislation against discrimination Among measures prioritized are an anti-discrimination law; the creation of a special anti-discrimination state body and of mechanisms for gathering information about cases of discrimination, the actions of the authorities and assistance provided to victims »» 16.12.2008 Russian Duma set to extend УspyingФ articles in the Criminal Code All those whose actions are directed Уagainst the security of the Russian Federation, including its constitutional system, sovereignty, territorial and state integrityФ will become traitors and spies in Russia if new amendments to the Criminal Code are passed. »» 15.12.2008 Halya Coynash . The Black Hole of УUkrainian Anti-SemitismФ I write these words in the last month of 2008 in an attempt to pull the issue of anti-Semitism in Ukraine from the edge of a black hole in which time and space have ceased to exist, and to stop blurring different issues in order to move forward in our time and space »» 15.12.2008 Viacheslav Likhachev . Trends in anti-Semitism in Ukraine at the beginning of the XXI century: reality and stereotypes The author has been carrying out monitoring for several years which makes the empirical data here of the greatest interest »» 15.12.2008 Sergei Kovalev . 60 years in the wilderness: Why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights doesnТt work Speech by renowned human rights defender and Head of the Russian УMemorialФ Society to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 2008 »» 15.12.2008 Citizens should assert their rights over communal charges arrears According to Ludmila Klochko, Head of the KHPG Advice Centre, it is normal for such disputes to be resolved in the court. She points out, however: УUnfortunately it works out that the communal services act as both the claimants and the expert »» 14.12.2008 Russia: heavy-handed methods used to stop opposition protests On Sunday police and riot squads detained a large number of opposition activists trying to hold УMarches of those in dissent [marsh niesoglasnych] in Moscow and St. Petersburg »» 13.12.2008 Mounting protest over the seizure of УMemorialФ archival material Students, staff and graduates of the renowned European University in St. Petersburg have sent an appeal addressed to President Medvedev over the removal of vital and irreplaceable archival material on the Stalinist Terror »» 12.12.2008 Internet Association of Ukraine disturbed by heavy-handed measures supposedly against pornography It points out the Ukrainian legislation does not establish the need for providers to monitor their networks to check for information infringements »» 12.12.2008 Russian neo-Nazis claim responsibility for beheading a Tajik migrant worker 20-year-old Salekh AzizovТs headless body was found by police on 6 December in a Moscow region.forest Human rights defenders are convinced that the authorities are letting radicals see how far they can go »» 12.12.2008 200 thousand classified documents un UkraineТs archives The Head of the State Archive Committee believes that the percentage of classified documents - 0.42% of all documents held in the archive is the lowest number of secret documents among CIS countries. »» 12.12.2008 ChildrenТs Ombudsperson vital Back in 2002 the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended that Ukraine establish the institution of Ombudsperson for Children or a special section on the rights of the chid which would react to complaints and appeals from children »» p. : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 »» Articles • Political УMonopolyФ Halya Coynash We are seeing politicians openly using and abusing their УassetsФ, otherwise known as State bodies in their battle to retain, gain or deprive others of power. Most disturbingly, they are equally blunt in their attempts to influence the judiciary • Opinion: Legal classification of Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine and in Kuban as a crime against humanity and genocide Yevhen Zakharov On the grounds for classifying Holodomor 1932-1933 as a crime against humanity and as genocide in accordance with international law • Crisis of political genre Halya Coynash It has become virtually impossible to differentiate between political events and their reflection in the media, and it is politicians themselves who contribute most to this. They donТt balk at any genre, and the media unfortunately are all too eager to go along with them • Open Letter from KHPG regarding the organization УPatriot of UkraineФ Hiding behind fine slogans, the organization УPatriot of UkraineФ through its actions discredits and dishonours the very concept of patriotism • Newspaper pogrom Halya Coynash They say that rumours fly. More often than not they are spread, with ill-intent or through carelessness, for the sake of an eye-catching headline, sensation, improved ratings, etc • No false notes Halya Coynash On apparent efforts to fuel discord between different ethnic groups in the Crimean media and the techniques applied to manipulate the audience • Letter in defence of the Law: Refugees must not be extradited! Please help us convince the authorities that they cannot break the law with impunity 1.79