An appeal of a number of humna rights organizations regarding the adoption of the new Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine that has ganger to guarding the human rights from the state side.

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) is appealing to Ukrainian authorities to observe international standards for free and fair elections, as reliable evidence suggests that governmental officials in several sectors are illegally abusing public institutions to manipulate the outcome of the 31 October 2004 presidential election.

On 30 June the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the all-Ukrainian Association of human rights protecting organizations “Ukrainian Helsinki Union of human rights”, which had been founded by 15 human rights protecting organizations.

On 17-18 June the international public hearings “Violent disappearances in Byelorussia, Russian Federation and Ukraine” were conducted in the conference hall of the Supreme Rada in Kyiv. The participants of the hearings adopted the resolution containing the appeal to the power of Byelorussia, Russia and Ukraine, as well as to the CIS, on the improvement of mechanisms of human rights protection with the aim to prevent the violent disappearances and extrajudicial executions.

The public hearings “Human rights and fundamental freedoms in the draft of the Criminal-Procedural Code of Ukraine” were held on 12 May in Kyiv. The majority of the participants mentioned the considerable number of drawbacks of the draft, which drawbacks created the auspicious conditions for systematic, uncontrolled and arbitrary violations of rights and fundamental freedoms of common citizens.

Ukrainian Ombudsman Nina Karpachova stands for protection of teachers and medical workers fired for expressing their political views after the "hot" election in small west Ukrainain town Mukachevo.

Outstanding in Ukraine - judges of Donetsk court applyied to the European Court of human rights in connection to delay of payments and depriving the citizens of the right to fair trial.

Despite the incident at the opening of the event the firts Ukrainian forum of human rights organizations "Human rights at election" attended by more than 100 activists from 82 organizations fruitfully worked for 2 days. Here is the text of open appeal fo participansts regarding freedom from torture in Ukraine.

Despite the incident at the opening of the event the firts Ukrainian forum of human rights organizations "Human rights at election" attended by more than 100 activists from 82 organizations fruitfully worked for 2 days.

Despite the incident at the opening of the event the firts Ukrainian forum of human rights organizations "Human rights at election" attended by more than 100 activists from 82 organizations fruitfully worked for 2 days. Here is the text of the resolution of human rights activists.

Human rights activists together with professors and specialist in constitutional law considers the proposed constitutionla reform as a spet back on a way to rule of law states.

On 17 February the Kharkov group for human rights protection conducted the regular meeting of the working group in charge of the questions of the freedom of expression. The round table «Access to information in Ukraine. Improvement of legislation and practices» was held in the framework of the meeting.