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.
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.
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.
During the occupation, the scale of the abduction and torture of people in the north of Luhansk region was similar to the situation in Slovyansk. This conclusion was made by the mobile monitoring group of the Center for Civil Liberties that visited Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, and Rubizhne in December last year.
On 26 December, the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights held a roundtable to discuss the results of submitting shadow reports on Ukraine's implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to the UN Committee against Torture.
On 25 December, the Best Annual Report award ceremony was organized by CCC Creative Center in cooperation with UNDP within the Democratization, Human rights and Civil Society Development Programme funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
On 27-28 November, UNDP project "Democratization and Human Rights in Ukraine" presented a training to build dialogue facilitation skills for restoration of life and protection of human rights in post-conflict areas in Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Women's role and performance in politics has been a heated topic for many years, and was revisited on 26 October 2014 when parliamentary elections took place in Ukraine. Statistics shows that the new Verkhovna Rada has the largest number of women MPs in the history of independent Ukraine.
18-20 November, Tbilisi, Georgia - Representatives of state authorities visited Tbilisi to examine the development and implementation of the Geaorgian National Human Rights Strategy and Action Plan.
As announced at a press conference on 14 November, human rights groups asked the court to abolish unlawful provisions of the National Bank of Ukraine Decree №699 as of 03.11.2014 that discriminate against Ukrainian citizens residing or registered in Crimea. Currently, Crimeans have limited access to basic banking services, including opening of accounts, currency exchange, payments, etc.
On 12 November, a joint roundtable of Ukrainian Bar Association and Strategic Litigations Platform was held in Kyiv. There was a discussion with the judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Stanislav Shevchuk and Executive Director of Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union Arkadiy Bushchenko.