Leaders of illegal armed groups controlled by the Russian Federation widely use the practice of involving minors in hostilities. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has initiated proceedings on numerous facts of involvement…
June 2, 2020
On the International Children’s Day, Oksana Pokalchuk, Director of Amnesty International’s Ukrainian office, presented her thoughts on the holiday. We – adults – always try to protect children from all the bad and evil that…
June 1, 2020
Almost a year after the murder of a 5-year-old boy, Kyrylo Tlyavov, in the Kyiv region by drunken police, the Pereyaslav inter district court began hearing the case. Only one of the four accused remains…
May 31, 2020
The Security Service of Ukraine has exposed a large-scale scheme of “anti-coronavirus biological additives” illegal sales via the Internet, which caused the state losses of more than 80 million hryvnias. This was announced by the…
May 27, 2020
The Mykolaiv territorial department’s officers of the State Bureau of investigations reported the suspicion to a district policeman in Odesa. The police officer is suspected in abuse of power or exceeding authority accompanied by dishonouring…
May 27, 2020
Our country occupies «honorable» position in Europe on children’s alcoholism. According to the World Health Organization, Ukrainian youth between the age of 15 and 19 y.o. consumes alcoholic beverages more than their peers from other…
May 27, 2020
She is pursuing and prosecuting them illegally, said Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova. “The Central District Court of Simferopol” has ruled that Crimean Tatar Edem Bekirov is wanted. It is entrusted to…
May 26, 2020
The State Bureau of Investigation detained an operative and the head of one of the sectors of the Kagarlyk police department of the Obukhiv police department in Kyiv region on the fact of rape and…
May 26, 2020
According to the survey of Ukrainian citizens conducted by the Kharkiv Human Rights Group experts in 2018, on can talk about 64 thousand cases of tortures per year just by law enforcement officers. Human rights…
May 25, 2020
The Court of Appeal reinstated a teacher who closed herself in a classroom with minor children a year and a half ago because she did not want to take a vocational exam. The court also…
May 21, 2020
In Ukraine, in tens of thousands of citizens, the right to a trial is under threat. After all, due to quarantine in the judiciary, there is a mass postponement of meetings. In economic and administrative…
May 15, 2020
Several months have passed since the resonance briefing held on 12 December 2019 at the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine, attended by the ministry’s leadership, the heads of the National Police, the Prosecutor General’s Office,…
May 5, 2020
Terrorists and suspects of crimes against Euromaidan activists were exchanged for Ukrainian prisoners of war held by (pro)Russian fighters. Much of Ukraine’s civil society has opposed such unequal exchange.
December 29, 2019
Ukraine could soon ban two Ukrainian channels, NewsOne and 112, which are widely considered channels spreading Russian propaganda. While some have cheered the step, others are questioning in what way it was done and whether…
November 24, 2018
