http://hr-lawyers.org/ en http://hr-lawyers.org/en/index.php?id=1321604458 The Strategic Litigations Centre warns that attempts by the Prosecutor’s Office to put pressure on judges and make them obedient to their every whim destroy the last vestiges of an independent judiciary and carry the real threat of total collapse of the justice system Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:20:58 +0300 http://hr-lawyers.org/en/index.php?id=1317396672 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:31:12 +0300 http://hr-lawyers.org/en/index.php?id=1317396543 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:29:03 +0300 http://hr-lawyers.org/en/index.php?id=1317301584 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:06:24 +0300 http://hr-lawyers.org/en/index.php?id=1302807758 Updated to 1 April 2011 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:02:38 +0300 http://hr-lawyers.org/en/index.php?id=1301064530 On 24 March 2011 the Supreme Court examined a cassation appeal lodged by Arkady Bushchenko on Mr Rafalsky’s behalf against a decision from the Kyiv Court of Appeal and sent the case back for a new appeal court level examination. Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:48:50 +0300 http://www.helsinki.org.ua/en/index.php?r=a2b3c6 This report focuses on the human rights situation in Ukraine in 2009–2010. It contains a “Civic Assessment of government policy in the area of human rights” and an in-depth analysis of specific aspects of the human rights situation during the period in question. The scope of both of the above. has been considerably expanded since the previous years’ reports Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:23:04 +0300 http://hr-lawyers.org/en/index.php?id=1298658583 … while we’re all deeply concerned about the trajectory of democracy and human rights in Ukraine, I do not yet think that “propalo vse”, or “all is lost”, as Yuliya Tymoshenko once famously said ... Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:29:43 +0300 http://hr-lawyers.org/en/index.php?id=1297969525 Walls that divide the internet, that block political content, or ban broad categories of expression, or allow certain forms of peaceful assembly but prohibit others, or intimidate people from expressing their ideas are far easier to erect than to maintain. Not just because people using human ingenuity find ways around them and through them but because there isn’t an economic internet and a social internet and a political internet; there’s just the internet Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:05:25 +0300 http://hr-lawyers.org/en/index.php?id=1296644834 Council invites the Minister to guarantee full respect for the international standards envisaged in the United Nations Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers (1990), in particular regarding adequate access to lawyers and legal services, freedom of expression of lawyers, independence of professional associations of lawyers and impartiality of disciplinary proceedings Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:07:14 +0300