At 12pm on the 17th December 2018, a press conference took place at the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre on the question ‘Is trial by jury relevant for Ukraine?’ Since Ukrainian independence in 1991 there have been several attempts to modernise and reinforce the judicial branch of government. However, these attempts have not achieved their main […]
There have been recent appeals by members of the largest parliament factions for legally enshrining the term ‘foreign agents’ in order to apply it to civic organisations and media which “directly or indirectly serve the interests of the aggressor state, i.e. the Russian Federation”. In his annual address to the parliament, the President of Ukraine […]
Determining minority language rights is a delicate matter. Our mother tongue reflects multiple aspects of our individual, community and national identities. As such, it often has profound implications for our education and employment and our interactions with state authorities. In signing Ukraine’s new education law, apparently making Ukrainian the first language in all public secondary […]
HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA Statement of the Human Rights Agenda platform demanding the President of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stop crack-down on non-governmental organizations In early July 2017, the presidential draft laws No. 6674 and No. 6675 were registered in the Parliament of Ukraine. The draft laws were elaborated allegedly to replace the […]
Ukraine is moving to undo a March 2017 law that imposed an excessive burden on anti-corruption activists to publicly report their income and assets. That’s good. But it will instead require NGOs to prepare extensive, onerous public reports about their funding and financial activities – which is bad. The European Union, and governments in the […]
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