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A well-known Russian writer and public activist, Roman Roslovtsev, has requested political asylum in Ukraine. The State Border Service of Ukraine has reported the news without releasing…
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United Nations called on all parties to the conflict in eastern Ukraine to prioritize the protection of civilians and take urgent steps to de-escalate the increasingly tense situation…
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Turkey may suspend European human rights convention
Ankara is set temporarily suspend the European Convention on Human Rights
Turkey deputy prime minister said his country to suspend…
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Both the Ukrainian government authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have held civilians in prolonged, arbitrary detention, without any contact with the outside…
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"The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine highly appreciates the initiative of OHCHR and the UN Mission for Human Rights in Ukraine to prepare this first thematic report and is ready to cooperate…
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International Partnership for Human Rights, a Belgium-based human rights watchdog, has collected evidence of the shelling of Ukraine from the territory of the Russian Federation for…
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"We, in fact, are already involved in cooperation with women's organizations in Donbas. We are extremely interested to find out what kind of problems there are with regard to security…
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Following the Equality March in Kyiv, 57 people have been detained and 10 administrative offence reports have been filed, National Police chief Khatia Dekanoidze has said at a briefing…
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The LGBT pride parade will take off from the main building of the Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv on 12 June, its spokesperson Khrystyna Morozova has told Ukrainian News.
"Yes…
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A 33-year-old man, who was recognized guilty of raping and killing two women in 2014 and 2015, has been convicted to death penalty. He was the third to be sentenced to death since…
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The Donetsk city court in Russia's Rostov Region has sentenced Ukrainian MP and pilot Nadiya Savchenko to 22 years in a penal colony, having pronounced her guilty of murder, attempted…
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Jan Tombinski, Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, has condemned an attack on LGBTI activists who wanted to participate in the Lviv Equality Festival on 19 March.
"The EU takes…
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Members of the public supervisory commission of Russia's Chelyabinsk Region are initiating a campaign to locate Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov sentenced to 20 years in enhanced…
- Simferopol's Tsentralnyy district court in Russia-controlled Crimea has fined Crimean Tatar Veldar Shukurdzhiyev 10,000 roubles (137 dollars) for posting a photo with a Ukrainian flag…
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has urged the UN Human Rights Council to persuade Russia to grant human rights organizations access to Russia-annexed Crimea to evaluate the…