Irpin, 6 February 2016 – The 3-day annual strategic planning session for the Regional Coordinators of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsperson) welcomed 27 regional representatives to plan their activity, share experiences and best practices.
Perechyn, 25 December 2015 – The Ombudsperson's regional coordinators in Zakarpattia and Ternopil oblasts Oleh Hryhoriev and Volodymyr Shevchenko conducted a monitoring visit to Perechyn School for orphans and children deprived of parental care.
Zaporizhia, 15 December 2015 – Regional Coordinator of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsperson) in Zaporizhia region Volodymyr Pavlenko conducted a meeting with detainees in Zaporizhia pre-trial detention centre of the State Penitentiary Service in Zaporizhia region.
Kyiv, 9 November 2015 – The Regional Coordinator of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsperson) took prompt measures to address race-based discrimination against an immigrant woman and helped restore her right to social security.
Kyiv, 6 November 2015 – The national conference "Civil Society and State: Strategy for Cooperation and Development 2016-2020" brought together representatives of the government and civil society to discuss the revised National Strategy for Developing Civil Society over the next four years.
Kyiv, 22 October 2015 – Over 100 representatives from National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), leaders, human rights experts, and civic activists came together in Ukraine to sign and adopt a new declaration calling for a stronger role of NHRIs in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Putrajaya, Malaysia, 2-4 September – Representatives of Ukrainian government, civil society, UNDP Ukraine, Transparency International Ukraine, and Business Ombudsperson for Ukraine visited the 16th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) to get hands-on experience in tackling corruption.
Vinnytsia, 8-9 July 2015 – Regional Coordinators for public relations of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsperson), National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) monitors, human rights activists, and international organizations representatives took part in the first NPM Monitors' Forum.
Odesa, 27-28 June 2015 – Regional Coordinators of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, social activists, and journalists from different regions of Ukraine took part in the kick-off workshop on "Public monitoring of the right of access to public information in law enforcement bodies."
Kyiv, 8 June 2015 – The Office of the Ombudsperson held an interview with the pre-selected candidates for the positions of Regional Coordinators for public relations of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsperson) in Zakarpattia, Zhytomyr, and Kherson regions. Now, the 11-strong network of regional coordinators has expanded by 3 additional regions in Ukraine.
6 April 2015, Kyiv – an opportunity to voice citizens' views on topical issues via electronic petitions was discussed during a roundtable, organized by the Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR) initiative with the support of UNDP in Ukraine and other partners.
On 13 March 2015, the UNDP Anticorruption School kicked off close to Kyiv, bringing together 30 leading civic activists, journalists, and community movers and shakers from 15 oblasts of Ukraine to master the most practical anticorruption tools existing in Ukraine at this point of time. Anyone interested could join this meeting by watching it live online.
On 4 March 2015, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and International Relations held a hearing on the National Human Rights Strategy. The project was developed by a working group set up by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, comprising representatives of civil society and international organizations.
On 20-22 February 2015, a 3-day training session on the National Preventive Mechanism implementation was held for regional representatives and regional coordinators of Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in a suburb of Kyiv.
Over 200 people registered, over 100 present in-person and many more watching the webcast. So are the results of this Saturday's National Expert Discussion on Anticorruption organized by the Reanimation Package of Reforms and Transparency International Ukraine with support from the EU Delegation and the United Nations Development Programme in partnership with the Ministry of Justice.
30 January 2015, Kyiv - As announced at a press conference, human rights defenders use the term 'deportation' to describe Russian authorities' ban on entering Crimea for Crimean citizens of Ukraine. Mr. Ismet Yuksel and Mr. Refat Chubarov fell victims of such ban and were unable to return home to their family and friends without any legal justification.
28 January 2015, Kyiv School of Economics hosted 93 IT experts and entrepreneurs, activists, startup practitioners and data journalists to discuss the reasons for opening state data, building open data storage platforms, stimulating open data startups and creating an enabling environment for data production, reification and consumption.
29 January: Results of the monitoring and assessment of situation on the administrative service provision in Kherson region to the citizens of Ukraine living in Crimea were presented during the press-conference with participation of all state and local service-providing institutions in Kherson.
In Lokachi district of Volyn region, eight rural councils approved the Regulations of providing free primary legal aid and the selection commissions involving legal entities of private law to provide free primary legal aid.
On 29 December, a meeting of human rights organizations working in the field of documenting human rights violations in eastern Ukraine during the armed conflict was held in Kyiv.