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Source: https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/ukraine/ Civilian authorities generally maintained effective control over security forces in the territory controlled by the government. Members of the security forces committed some abuses. Significant human rights issues included: unlawful or arbitrary killing; torture and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of detainees by law enforcement personnel; harsh and life-threatening..
03.05.2021
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International Anti-Corruption Day is celebrated annually on December 9 at the initiative of the United Nations. On that day, December 9, 2003, the UN Convention against Corruption (adopted by the UN General Assembly on October 31, 2003) was opened for political signing in the Mexican city of Merida. This international agreement provides for measures to..
09.12.2020
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22.09.2020 Information taken from the source: https://www.ohchr.org/RU/Countries/ENACARegion/Pages/UAReports.aspx This thirtieth report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights situation in Ukraine covers the period from 16 February to 31 July 2020. It is based on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in..
16.10.2020
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(excerpt) Statement by UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore Geneva, 18 December 2019 The report covers the period from 16 August to 15 November 2019 and was launched in Kyiv on 12 December. The findings it presents are based on: 59 visits undertaken by the Human Rights Monitoring Mission to settlements along..
21.02.2020
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(excerpt) Statement by UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore Geneva, 10 July 2019, PdN, Room XX, 12:00 Over the reporting period, OHCHR documented 230 human rights violations and abuses, affecting 220 victims. Violations recorded included violations of the rights to physical integrity and to fair trial, but also of the rights to..
18.02.2020
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State Bureau of Investigation st. Grushevskogo 12/2. m. Kiev, 01008 tel. (044) 294-64-17 E-Mail: info@dbr.gov.ua, website: dbr.gov.ua, EDRPOU code 41760289 “06” 12.2019 No. 25922 / 2.1-19; Director of the Territorial Office of the State Bureau investigations located in Kiev Marchuk R.M. PA “Central Anti-Corruption Committee” st. Dvinskaya, d. 1 A, city. Kiev. 02090 ..
30.12.2019
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“Country” for 10 days, watched, recorded and documented a security officer who threatened to punish the journalist of the “Country” Vyacheslav Seleznev, who photographed in May this year the villa of President Petro Poroshenko in the Spanish city of Marbella. Esbauchnik demanded that our journalist supply him with information about what is happening in the..
31.10.2018
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A former prisoner Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Vasilets spoke at the OSCE meeting on freedom of speech in Warsaw. He was able to leave there after the measure of restraint – house arrest. Recall Vasil’tsa previously sentenced to 9 years in prison for “assistance to terrorism.” Later, the appellate instance overturned the verdict and sent the..
26.10.2018
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