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| Founded | April 2004 |
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| Focus | Protecting human rights |
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Area served | Ukraine |
Key people | Yevgen Zakharov [1] and Volodymyr Yavorskyy |
| Website | helsinki.org.ua |
All-Ukrainian Association of Public Organizations Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU) was founded by 15 public human rights organizations on 1 April 2004. UHHRU is a non-profit and non-partisan organization.
Realization and protection of rights and freedoms by promoting practical implementation of humanitarian articles of the Helsinki Final Act (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) adopted in 1975, other international laws based on it and all other obligations accepted by Ukraine in human rights and freedoms sphere.
On the Supervisory Board are prominent members of the Ukrainian Helsinki group of 1960-80s:
Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union is a member of the Coalition "Justice for Peace in Donbas".
Since 2005, UHHRU in cooperation with the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group and other human rights organizations publishes a yearbook Human Rights in Ukraine: Report by Human Rights Organisations (in Ukrainian and English). These reports analyze the observation of fundamental rights; social, economic and cultural rights; human rights in "closed" communities; collective and environmental rights and offer recommendations for corrective actions in each area of human rights. To date, two yearbooks (2004 and 2006) have been published. Their English versions are freely accessible from UHHRU's web-site. [14]
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