Investigation of war crimes: what’s the situation in Ukraine?
UHHRU’s Strategic Litigation Center lawyer Alina Pavliuk on investigation of war crimes that requires special procedure...
18 April 2018
Strategic litigations
The UHHRU Strategic Litigation Centre was established in 2004 to provide qualified legal assistance to victims of human rights violations in matters of strategic importance. The expert council of ten qualified experts select these cases of importance. These cases receive systematic media coverage through advocacy activities of UHHRU. Particularly in 2015 more than 20 leading Ukrainian media were involved in advocacy campaigning of these cases. The head of the Centre is Mykhailo Tarakhalo.
Olena Protsenko (UHHRU): “No control should not amount to no responsibility: Khlebik v Ukraine”
Olena Protsenko, a Lawyer at the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU), discusses the July...
16 February 2018
UHHRU wins 4 cases in Supreme Court’s Grand Chamber
Today, on 7 February 2017, the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court of Ukraine remanded...
08 February 2018
UHHRU: it appears that the government is backing out from providing compensation for property destroyed in Donbas
Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union held a press conference “How to get compensation for property...
06 February 2018
UHHRU press conference “How to get compensation for property destroyed in eastern Ukraine?”
On Tuesday, 30 January, at 14:00 press conference “How to get compensation for property destroyed in eastern...
29 January 2018
Electronic version of UHHRU’s case law study “PRECEDENT UA – 2016” is out now
The publication features results of the “Precedent UA – 2016” study jointly conducted by the...
26 January 2018
UHHRU: “The Pension Fund de-facto recognizes the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation in order to make pension payments in Crimea”
On December 13, 2017 the Ukrainian Institute for the Future and UHHRU arranged a roundtable...
15 December 2017
Consideration of the situation in Ukraine by the International Criminal Court: is there anything to hope for?
On December 11, 2017, a side event with the participation of lawyers of the Ukrainian...
14 December 2017
UHHRU presented reports to representatives of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
On November 24, 2017, Vitalia Lebid, a lawyer at the Strategic Litigations Center of the...
28 November 2017
Ukrainian human rights defenders reported in London about Russian “hybrid war” and Ukrainian political prisoners
On November 20, 2017, with the support and invitation of the Embassy of Ukraine in...
23 November 2017