"The acceptance of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court will cause both potentially positive effects and certain risks for Ukraine"
Human Rights Information Centre summarizes the key human rights events of 2015 in Ukraine
The state should upscale the human and financial resources to investigate international crimes.
Experts recommend extending the mandate of the legal mechanism to investigate corruption crimes
It does not improve statistics, does not increase performance, does not influence salary size.
The detainees were tortured and were not provided with basic custodial conditions in illegal places of detention in Donbas.
The internally displaced persons should be granted right to vote. In addition, crossing of the demarcation line for those with small children should be simplified.
The exact number of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) is unknown, and the restriction of freedom of movement makes it difficult to deliver aid.
The e-petition will be considered, if it gathers at least 25,000 signatures
About a thousand prisoners, now held in the occupied territories of Donbas, want to continue serving sentence in the facilities of the penitentiary system of Ukraine.
The decision to ban the leader of the Crimean Tatar people from entry to the peninsula was made by the FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation). The FSB has noted the paperwork of the respective resolution is missing
On Saturday, February 28th, about two hundred activists took part in the flashmob "Crimea is Ukraine" in the center of Kyiv
Parliament Decides on Hague Tribunal Jurisdiction
On January 2, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) proclaimed that Ukraine must not ratify the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) until Russia does the same.
Human rights defenders will compare the laws passed by Parliament on August 12th and the so-called “dictatorship laws” that were passed on January 16th under the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych
Щоп’ятниці отримуйте найцікавіші матеріали тижня: важливі новини та актуальні анонси, розлогі тексти й корисні інструкції.