Sievierodonetsk, 15 September 2015 – UNDP's Democracy University (DemoVersity) attracted over 50 students and civic activists from eastern Ukraine to celebrate the United Nations International Day of Democracy.

7 May, Kyiv - The issue of illegal nationalization by self-proclaimed Crimean authorities and the Russian government was discussed at a roundtable on "Property and land issues in occupied Crimea: human rights deficit" with MP Heorhiy Lohvynskyy, Chairman of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov, and Crimea experts.

On 13 February 2015, the Coalition "Justice for Peace in Donbas," comprising 14 Ukrainian human rights organizations, hosted the information session on "Human Rights in the East of Ukraine: Hostages, Tortures, Extra-judicial Executions" with support of UNDP "Democratization, Human Rights and Civil Society Development" programme funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.

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. 

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.

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 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.

On 5 November, diplomats, representatives of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and international experts on human rights gathered in Geneva to hear the assessment of Ukrainian human rights defenders of the human rights situation in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

On 1 November, Chasopys Creative Space hosted the final meeting of grantee organizations in the thematic area "Support of civil society as the engine of democracy and good governance," organized by CCC Creative Center in the framework of UNDP project "Democratization and human rights in Ukraine," funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.

On October 30-31 in Kyiv a training for lawyers and managers of Centers of Legal Information and Consultation that provide free legal aid with the support of UNDP and International Fund "Renaissance", as well as for the representatives of municipal authorities, where the participants told about their success, shared their experiences and received new knowledge and skills.

Ukrainian human rights activists, Alexandra Matviychuk, Center for Civil Liberties, and Vadim Pyvovarov, Association of Ukrainian Human Rights Monitors on Law Enforcement, participated in an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on the situation in Ukraine.

An initiative group comprising of residents from various parts of Ukraine and in Kyiv shortly formed of artists, actors, writers, cameramen, critics, educators and other representatives of creative professions, decided to devote part of their time and by means of culture, art, and good will start restoring trust and reinstating social cohesion that got broken in times of military conflict.