Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
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| Founded | November 1992 |
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Area served | Ukraine |
Key people | Yevgen Zakharov and Irina Rapp |
| Website | khpg.org |
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG) is one of the oldest and most active Ukrainian human rights organizations. As a legal entity, it was established in 1992, but it has been working as a human rights protection group since 1988 under the Society "Memorial", a first official human rights organization in the former USSR. Many members of the organization took part in a human rights movement of the 1960s – 1980s.
Statutory mission
- gathering information about human rights abuse and sending this information to the relevant persons, organizations, and mass media
- carrying out public investigations of human rights violations
- legal enlightenment and popularization of law-protecting ideas
- examination of the operating laws and draft bills as to their compliance with international legal rules
- appealing to legislative, executive and judicial offices for problems concerning human rights
- initiating and supporting public protests, actions and conferences on problems of human rights
Major activities
- defense of persons whose rights are violated by legislative powers or public officials (since 1988)
- creation and support of an information network for human rights organizations (since 1992)
- preparation and publication of a series of history books dedicated to resistance to the totalitarian regime in the USSR (since 1992)
- human rights propaganda, among executive and legislative authorities, local governments, NGOs, and concerned citizens (since 1993)
- human rights education for various social and professional groups (since 1993)
- creation and management of a public reception center and library with free and easy access for all citizens (since 1995)
- analysis of the human rights situation in Ukraine (since 1995)
- annual All-Ukrainian human rights essay contests for college and high school students (since 1996)
- monitoring and protection of freedom of expression and privacy (since 1996)
- monitoring and protection of the right to freedom from torture, cruel, and unusual punishment (since 1996) [1]
- analysis of the legislation and legislative practices concerning the special services (since 1996)
- investigating a history of the dissident movement in Ukraine, creating a biographical dictionary of dissidents and a list of persons repressed on political grounds between 1953 and 1988 (since 1996)[2]
- creation and support of the information resource «Human Rights in Ukraine» (www.khpg.org) (since 2000)
- analysis of discrimination and inequality in Ukraine (since 2002)
Recent projects
- Creation of Virtual Human Rights Library in Ukraine (December 2006 - June 2007) [3]
- Creation of a National System for the Prevention of Torture and Ill-Treatment in Ukraine (November 2006 – January 2008)
- Monitoring, Defense and Preparation of the Regional Report on Human Rights and the National Report on Human Rights "Human Rights in Ukraine – 2006" (July 2006 – June 2007) [4]
- Analysis of the problem of overcrowding in facilities of preliminary detention (January 2006 – February 2007)
- Monitoring, Defense and Preparation of the Regional Report on Human Rights and the National Report on Human Rights "Human Rights in Ukraine – 2005" (July 2005 – June 2006) [5]
- Legal and public monitoring of the presidential election campaign in the East and South of Ukraine and defense of voters' rights during the third stage of the election (December 2004 – Мay 2005)
- Monitoring, Defense and Preparation of the Regional Report on Human Rights and the National Report on Human Rights "Human Rights in Ukraine – 2004" (June 2004 – April 2005) [6]
- Fostering human rights (February 2005 – January 2008)
- Creating mechanisms of cooperation of human rights organizations, Ukraine (August 2003 – July 2004)
- Campaigning against torture and cruel treatment in Ukraine (July 2003 – July 2006)
Major publications in English
- Access to information and other aspects of freedom of expression and privacy in Ukraine
- The Presidential elections – 2004 in Ukraine: A Human Rights perspective
- Against torture: Review of messages on torture and cruel treatment in Ukraine (June 2001 – December 2002)
- On torture and cruel treatment in Ukraine (1997–2001)
International and foreign partners
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights Watch
- Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT)
- UN Committee against Torture
- European Committee on the Prevention of Torture and Cruel Treatment (CPT)
- Moscow Helsinki Group
- International Society "Memorial"
- Russian Institute on Human Rights
Awards
EU/US Democracy and Civil Society Award (1998)
See also
Association of Ukrainian Monitors on Human Rights Conduct in Law Enforcement
Notes and external links
- ↑ KhPG 2007 Report about Ukraine’s compliance with the UN Convention against Torture
- ↑ Dissident Movement in Ukraine Virtual Museum (personalities, articles, interviews)
- ↑ On-line library "Human Rights" (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Report "Human Rights in Ukraine – 2006" (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Report "Human Rights in Ukraine – 2005"
- ↑ Report "Human Rights in Ukraine – 2004"
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