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Charred body of Crimean Tatar found in Crimea
The charred body of Crimean Tatar Enver Ismailov has been found in Crimea
Preventing torture in Ukraine: the NPM experience
Would you like to look behind the scenes and learn about how the National Preventive Mechanism in Ukraine?
Ukraine will have no rights in ICC without ratification of Rome Statute
Commentary from Dr. David Donat Cattin, the Secretary-General of the Parliamentarians for Global Action international organization
Convicts in Orikhiv penal colony No.88 are treated ‘like pigs’
Only 125 out of 630 convicts live in satisfactory conditions
173 criminal cases handed over from uncontrolled territory
These people are in custody following the rulings of the courts of the first instance or the courts of appeal or the courts of cassation, which sent the case back for further investigation
Orphans in boarding schools of grey zone in Donbas suffer from periodic shelling
During the shelling, the children are evacuated to the safe territory but later are returned back.
Convicts transferred from occupied territory to Ukraine for the third time
Twenty convicts from the Yenakiyevo colony No.52 have been transferred to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine.
Energy blockade activists not allow restoring electricity supply to annexed Crimea
The Right Sector threatens to terminate its participation in the blockade of Crimea if the supplies to the peninsula are restored
Convict killed in Khmelnytsky remand prison
Andriy Danyliuk was beaten to death in the Khmelnytsky remand prison and his wife was subsequently threatened.
Residents of Chortoryisk psycho-neurological residential facility put to isolation ward for ‘bad behaviour’
The residents sleep on broken beds and have access to them at night only.
Residents of psycho-neurological residential facilities in Zakarpattia region are kept behind bars
The residents are forced to work at farm. There are bars on windows, broken beds, dirty mattresses and sheets in the rooms, where the residents are isolated. As the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights website reports, this was found out by staff of the department for the National Preventive Mechanism implementation of the Secretariat […]
Three years of combating torture: has anything changed?
The visits of the National Preventive Mechanism monitors to colonies, boarding schools and psychiatric hospitals help to change conditions in these facilities.
Seventeen people suffer racist attacks in Ukraine this year
The cases of hate-motivated violence on ethnic and racial grounds are investigated ineffectively in Ukraine.
Levonky psychiatric hospital finally falls under prosecutor’s office supervision
The criminal proceedings under Part 1, Article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (neglect of official duty) were opened.
President approves National Strategy on Human Rights
Frankly speaking, this is a compromise document. The final version of the Strategy does not include all suggestions. However, that’s a mercy already, and we can move forward with it
Transferring prisoners from DPR to Ukraine
The closer you are driving up to the borders of the breakaway republic, the more artifacts of war you come across
HIV-positive foreigners allowed to enter Ukraine
HIV infection was removed from the list of grounds for refusal of Ukraine’s immigration permission
First group of prison inmates transferred from uncontrolled territories of Donbas
First group of prison inmates transferred from uncontrolled territories of Donbas
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Ukrainian parliament appeals for NATO membership as foundation for lasting peace
Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace
“Appeasement never works”: Lessons from Bosnia’s post-war justice
Liberia demands Russia immediately halt aggression and restore Crimea to Ukraine
