Alumni News
09.05.2012
What do you think the Norwegian prisoners did after they had learned about the explosion in the premises of the Norwegian Penal Services? When the Ukrainian prisoners were asked this question they thought they were happy. However, the Norwegian prisoners made a different decision. They started sending money and flowers to the employees of the agency voluntarily. Why? They think it is their agency, which takes care of them…
03.05.2012
An official presentation of a female poetry anthology, From Victims to Liquidators, was given in the Izolyatsia (Russian: изоляция, an isolation) Foundation in Donetsk (Ukraine).
06.04.2012
The mobile exhibition about human rights will be displayed in Kyiv and seven other cities of Ukraine, such as Chernihiv, L’viv, Luhans’k, Simferopol’, Kirovohrad, Poltava and Kherson this year. It is unique because it can be taken advantage of both in informal education and the official system of education.
07.08.2011
Bridging the Gap – are Prisons Failing Prisoners? was one of the key questions discussed in the consultations and dialogue with offenders in the Ukraine and UK exchange visit.
07.07.2011
The seminar on the use of media and HRact to organize actions in support of human rights was held from 27 to 29 June 2011 in Pischane of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
29.06.2011
On 23 June 2011 human rights defenders held an action near the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine on the occasion of the International Day against Tortures.
17.05.2011
The Thirty Second of May IV Festival of Social Juvenile Movies will be held on the night of 3 / 4 June 2011. The Festival is timed to celebrate the International Children’s Day.
08.04.2011
"Solidarity in action: supporting civil society in Belarus" is the project aimed at the establishment of conditions for the provision of assistance by young human rights defenders to colleagues from the neighboring country, since a large-scale campaign to intimidate civil society was launched in Belarus. The idea was implemented due to the financial assistance of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) within the framework of the Understanding Human Rights Program, which is administered by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU). The project lasted for about a month and foresaw the participation of Ukrainian human rights activists in the activity of the International Observation Mission in Minsk.
27.10.2010
The Human Rights Center “Postup” today announced the release of the publication based on the results of the trilateral project Actions for the Protection of Children at Risk: the Experience of Poland, Germany and Ukraine. The publication contains the analysis of the observance of the rights of children at risk in Ukraine, an overview of national systems and standards for the provision of assistance to children at risk in Poland and Germany and recommendations to the Government of Ukraine as to the improvement of the existing situation.
30.08.2010
A journalist of the Mariupil’ TV Channel Iryna Prodkova (Donets’k region, Ukraine) appealed to the President of Ukraine with a letter, in which she denotes that there is pressure on the administration of the TV Channel and her personally from the people involved in her journalistic investigations.
