Institute of Democracy and Human Rights

The office of the Institute of democracy and human rights (Odessa, Ukraine).

The Institute of Democracy and Human Rights is a non-profitable non-governmental organization founded by Dr. Haass Social Assistance Fund (state registration was on June 15, 2000 (Odessa, Ukraine).[1][2][3]

Alexander Muchnik - President of the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights

The Initiator of the foundation and President of the Institute is Honored Lawyer of Ukraine,[4] a scientific consultant of the President of Ukraine on the questions of human rights and constitutional law (2002-2005)[5][6] — Alexander Muchnik.[3][7][8][9]

Vice-President of the Institute is G.B. Tsyrfa.[10]

The main mission of the Institute is legal education, formation of the legal culture, creation of the civil society and jural state, and carrying out all kinds of research on issues related to the protection of human rights and freedoms in Ukraine.[3][7][8][10][11][12][13][14]

There are the following departments within the Institute:[3]

At different time in the activities of the Institute took part:[3]

Draft Law of Ukraine "On the civil society in Ukraine" - newspaper "Golos Ukrainy», № 187 from 11.10.2002
«Commentary on the Constitution of Ukraine" (Book I).
«Philosophy of dignity, freedom and human rights."

In 2000, in the Parliament Publishing House of the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) of Ukraine under the auspices of the Institute appeared in print the first,[23] and in 2003 - the second edition of the book "Commentary on the Constitution of Ukraine (Book one)", which was recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine as a textbook for students of higher educational institutions of Ukraine (Letter number 14 / 182-1270 from 16.07.2003). In the 2nd edition of the book the introductory speech to the readers was made by the second President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. With the purpose of legal education the book was donated to the libraries of Kiev schools (19.11.2003), higher educational institutions (19.11.2004)[24] and the central governmental bodies of Ukraine.[11][12][13][14]

In 2000, under the auspices of the Institute of International Law, there was released the textbook, authored by Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Baimuratov.[11][25]

In 2001 there was published developed by the Institute project of the Сonception of creating a free economic zone in the city of Odessa by gradual spreading of the legal regime of the European Union on the territory of Odessa as a form of integration of Ukraine into the EU;[11][12][13][26]

In 2002, in the Official Publishing organ of the Parliament of Ukraine there was published developed by the Institute draft project of the Law of Ukraine "On civil society in Ukraine".[8][11][12][13][14][27]

In 2009, in the Parliament Publishing House of the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) of Ukraine under the auspices of the Institute appeared in print the book "Philosophy of dignity, freedom and human rights".[3][28][29] The book got through two editions. The foreword to the 2nd edition of the book was written by the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and the reviewers were: Director of the Institute of National Security Problems of Ukraine, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Gorbulin V.P. and Director of the Institute of Legislation of the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) of Ukraine, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine A. L. Kopylenko, the first rector of the Law Institute of the Odessa I.I.Mechnikov state university, Doctor of Law, academician of the Academy of Law of Ukraine A. S. Vasilyev, as well as Doctor of law, professor I.V. Postica. This book was donated to the libraries of a number of the best universities of Ukraine[8][30] and the world,[31] as well as the largest national libraries of Ukraine, Russia, the USA, the UK and Israel.[11][12][13][14]

The staff of the Institute (January 2011) individually addressed the ambassadors of all Western countries in Ukraine and a number of the most famous international organizations concerned with the promotion of human rights and put forward the project of a national scale.[11][32] The essence of the project was that several influential human rights organizations of Western countries would act as founders of the unified Ukrainian "parent" non-governmental organization on promotion of human rights (NGO), capable of ensuring in all the regions of Ukraine a rapid establishing, effective performance and reliable protection of an extensive network of "affiliates" of organizations of human rights promotion. It was supposed to involve decent, educated and motivated young lawyers selected on a competitive basis to carry out the mission of legal education and human rights protection on the basis of a unified coordinated methodological, cultural and legal, information-legal policy on the part of the "parent" NGO. Thus, it was assumed to create on the basis of the above mentioned network of human rights protection organizations an infrastructure of a civil society in Ukraine. However, the letter was responded to by only one Embassy (the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine), a human rights organization from Australia and a mission of the Konrad Adenauer Fund in Ukraine. All the other addressees left the appeal of the Institute unanswered.[8][11][12][13]

More than once the Institute team have given constitutional and legal conclusions at the request of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.[33]

On February 25, 2016 the Institute sent a written proposal to establish within Odessa Regional State Administration the post of a Commissioner on Human Rights with the purpose of organizing legal education, formation of legal culture and creating on the territory of the region a network of organizations to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms.[8][9][34][35][36][37] The proposal was rejected.[38]

On April 19, 2016 the Institute appealed to the Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine issues, the Committee on European Integration of the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) of Ukraine and Odessa mayor with a written proposal to establish on an experimental basis unilaterally according to the international agreement concluded between the European Union and Ukraine, the legal regime of the EU in the city of Odessa, as the first stage of the European integration of Ukraine.[39]

In 2000 the Institute organized in the secondary schools of the city a discussion of the Draft of the Charter of the city of Odessa.[40] High school students, who showed themselves in those debate, subsequently participated in television broadcasts dedicated to the discussion of Odessa Development Strategy.[11][12][13][14]

From 2003 to 2006 the Institute team acted as organizers and coordinators of the project "Youth Council for Human Rights and Development of Civil Society", which operated with the participation of law students and higher education institutions of Ukraine under the auspices of the Administration of the President of Ukraine, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the National Institute for strategic studies under the President of Ukraine.[11][12][13][14][41]

The most notable project of the Institute was a series of television programs (2011) with the participation of law students and Odessa universities dedicated to the constitutional and legal reform in Ukraine.[42][43][44][45][46][47] The programs were broadcast on the satellite channel "OK" for several countries of the world. The first president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk addressed the audience of the first transmission with an opening speech; the second programme was opened by the ex-speaker of the Parliament of Ukraine Alexander Moroz, the fourth one – by the Chairman of the Central Election Committee of Ukraine V. Shapoval.[11][12][13][14]

Draft Charter of Odessa.

A number of creative ideas, projects and concepts have been worked out in the process of the Institute activities,[11][12][13][14] namely:

References

  1. ↑ State registration certificate № 584 from 15.06.2000
  2. ↑ Certificate of state re-registration (change of name) № 1124 from 15.03.2004
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Books: "Philosophy of dignity, freedom and human rights" (Russian)
  4. ↑ Presidential Decree number 659/2003 of 15 July, 2003
  5. ↑ Decree of President of Ukraine
  6. ↑ On dismissal of O. Muchnіk from the post of scientific consultant | from 25.03.2005 number 854/2005-рп(in Ukrainian)
  7. 1 2 3 Interview with A. G. Muchnik : "In Ukraine the entire body of human rights is absolutely fictitious" – Dialogue.ua from 12.06.2013
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Portrait of a human rights defender in the social interior" - "2000" newspaper, number 9 of 3/2/2016
  9. 1 2 "Will there be an own ombudsman in the region?" - The newspaper "Odesskie Izvestia" from 04.05.2016
  10. 1 2 Interview with the Vice-President of the Institute G.B. Tsyrfa
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Towards a Civil Society" - The newspaper "Odesskie Izvestia" from 10.10.2015
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "In the interests of municipal democracy and human rights in Ukraine» - The newspaper "2000" from 19.11.2015
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "In the struggle for creating a civil society and Ukrainian law-governed state" – The newspaper "Slovo», № 51 from 12.24.2015
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Institute for Democracy and Human Rights: 15 years in the struggle for human rights" published on 03.10.2016, on the site of the Institute for Economic Strategies Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IES)
  15. ↑ L.A. Muchnik "Raoul Wallenberg: the duel with Stalin!"
  16. ↑ «Forgetting a crime is a forerunner of the next one" - Analitikaua.net from 09.09.2013
  17. ↑ Valentin Prodayevich. "World Threat"(in Russian)
  18. ↑ Valentin Prodayevich. "Ukraine. Overtone's Window"(in Russian)
  19. ↑ Valentin Prodayevich. "Ukraine. The bird falling down"(in Russian)
  20. ↑ Valentin Prodayevich. "Ukraine. The right to elect"(in Russian)
  21. ↑ Valentin Prodayevich. "When will Babylon fall"(in Russian)
  22. ↑ Valentin Prodaevich. "Ukraine. How to break off vicious circle"(in Russian)
  23. ↑ The comment useful to everyone. - The newspaper "Zerkalo Nedeli", number 44 from 10.11.2000
  24. ↑ Letters of the Ukrainian educational authorities
  25. ↑ Baimuratov M.A. International Law: Textbook. - Kharkov: Odyssey, 2000. - 786 p. ISBN 966-633-074-1
  26. ↑ The concept project:. "The free economic zone in Odessa as a stage of Ukraine's integration into the European Union" - Newspaper "Porto-Franco», № 31 (569) of 03.08.2001
  27. ↑ Draft Law of Ukraine "On the civil society in Ukraine." - The newspaper "Voice of Ukraine», № 187 from 11.10.2002
  28. ↑ Batanov A. Thorough study of the problems of philosophy of dignity, freedom and human rights (Review of the book : Muchnick, A. G. Philosophy of dignity, freedom and human rights / A. G. Muchnick. – K.: Parliamental publishing house, 2009. – 672 p.) / / Law of Ukraine. – 2016. – No. 4. – P. 182-185. (in Ukrainian)
  29. ↑ Batanov A. Topical study of the problems of the philosophy of dignity, freedom and human rights/A.V. Batanov // Journal of Kyiv Law University. - 2016, Number 1.- P. 395-397 (in Ukrainian)
  30. ↑ Letters of the Ukrainian universities
  31. ↑ Letters of the leading universities in the world
  32. ↑ Correspondence with embassies and human rights organizations of the Western countries
  33. ↑ The request of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine
  34. ↑ appeal to the governor of Odessa, dated 10.02.2016
  35. ↑ "Local Ombudsman" - the newspaper "Evening Odessa", number 30-31 from 17.03.2016
  36. ↑ broadcasting company "Grad": Report on the human rights project on 3.14.2016
  37. ↑ "Human rights and the governor – will there be a dialogue?" - Newspaper "2000", number 11 from 18.03.2016
  38. ↑ OGA.JPG answer - Google Drive
  39. ↑ ZEEPR
  40. ↑ Draft Charter of Odessa. - Newspaper «Yug», № 106,107 from 20.07.1999
  41. 1 2 "How to do?". - The newspaper "2000" from 18.09.2010
  42. ↑ We and the Constitution, the first programme (2011)
  43. ↑ We and the Constitution, the second programme
  44. ↑ We and the Constitution, the third programme
  45. ↑ We and the Constitution, the fourth programme
  46. ↑ We and the Constitution, the fifth programme
  47. ↑ Interview with a leading television journalist M.V. Zhukovskaya
  48. ↑ Charter territorial community of Odessa: the main stages of creation
  49. ↑ Draft Law of Ukraine "On the civil society in Ukraine." - Newspaper «Yug», № 45 from 23.06.2001; The newspaper "Voice of Ukraine», № 187 from 11.10.2002
  50. ↑ The draft concept: "Free economic zone in Odessa as a stage of Ukraine's integration into the European Union" - Newspaper "Porto-Franco», № 31 (569) from 03.08.2001
  51. ↑ «President is an attorney of the people." - The newspaper "Golos Ukrainy», № 181 of 3.10.2002
  52. ↑ The draft Constitution of Ukraine in the new edition
  53. ↑ “The Ukrainian system "-"Russkiy Journal " from 8.01.2011
  54. ↑ "We and the Constitution" (the introduction to Book I of "Commentary on the Constitution of Ukraine")
  55. ↑ «State or quasi-state." - Internet publication "Ukrainskaya Pravda" from 1.08.2011
  56. ↑ Muchnik A.G. Philosophy of dignity, freedom and human rights. - K: Parliamentary Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-966-611-679-9
  57. ↑ «Privatization or confiscation?". - Internet publication "Ukrainskaya Pravda" from 5.01.2012
  58. ↑ «Let’s respond to confiscation by nationalization." - The newspaper "2000" of 7.03.2012
  59. ↑ "The benefits of referendums" – The newspaper "The Day», № 81 from 15.05.2003
  60. ↑ «Constitutional reform: goals, algorithm, forms of implementation." – The newspaper "Den», № 183 from 24.10.2007
  61. ↑ «What to do?". - The newspaper "2000" from 20.08.2010
  62. ↑ «Constitutional reform: advances and debts." - The newspaper "2000" from 26.08.2010
  63. ↑ «The official language: the means of unity or hatred ?". - The paper "2000" from 26.04.2012
  64. ↑ «The unitary or federal neighborliness intolerance?". - The paper "2000" from 27.06.2012
  65. ↑ «Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Ukraine." - The paper "2000" from 2.09.2010
  66. ↑ «Is justice in Ukraine possible?". - The paper "2000" from 7.11.2010
  67. ↑ «Jury Trial." - Internet publication "Ukrainskaya Pravda" from 29.05.2011
  68. ↑ «The burden of missed opportunities." - Internet publication "Ukrainskaya Pravda" from 23.08.2011
  69. ↑ «Decency is a source of law." - Internet publication "Ukrainskaya Pravda" from 16.06.2011
  70. ↑ «National idea or ethnical difference?». — The newspaper «2000» from 14.03.2012
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