discrimination

Yesterday extremely unpleasant news fell upon me: a draft law on the National Strategy on Human Rights, which was prepared by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, has not included recommendations of the LGBT organizations. The most important…

The inscription on the picture says: “LGBT rights = Human Rights” Recently the Ministry of Justice released “final edition” of the National Strategy on Human Rights, which still lacks any mention of LGBT. Human…

Human rights activists are concerned about the absence of any reference to sexual orientation and gender identity in a new project of the National Strategy on Human Rights. It was reported by the representative of the Human Rights…

All-Ukrainian non-governmental civic human rights initiative Coalition for Combating Discrimination in Ukraine (CCD) held an interactive presentation of information and education campaign “Discrimination limits - act against!”.…

The inscription on the picture says: “Error 404: Law Not Found” Creative art has always helped artists to draw public attention to difficult social problems. Photography access has significantly expanded possibilities of all…

In December of last year the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine issued a new draft Labor Code of Ukraine. The sixth article of the document states the prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation as well as the HIV positive…

Today in Kyiv was held the anti-Award "The Discriminator of the Year-2014". Human rights activists from the Coalition against discrimination in Ukraine (CAD) named the most recalcitrant violators of principles of equality and…

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic has recently visited Ukraine. The main purpose of the visit - assessment of the human rights situation in the country. As reported Radio Svoboda, Simonovic stated that UN has…

An interesting time came once again to Ukraine. On the background of prolonged war in the East the parliamentary elections approach. The previous Rada was absolutely reasonably disbanded by President, and the people stiffened in…

The Equality March, which was scheduled on the 5th of June in Kyiv within the framework of KyivPride2014, was cancelled. Organizers announced that the reason for that was inability of the city authorities and police to ensure the safety of…