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Bibliography and references for the Dossier on 'Human Rights in Ukraine'

Legal framework:

Constitution of Ukraine of 1995
https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/ukr127467E.pdf

Constitution of Ukraine with the amendments and supplements of December, 8, 2004
https://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/country/foreign_law/ukraine/constitution.pdf

United Nations: The ratification status of the treaties by Ukraine
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?CountryID=183&Lang=EN

Council of Europe: list of the Human Rights Treaties
https://conventions.coe.int/treaty/Commun/ListeTraites.asp?CM=7&MA=44&CL=ENG

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: Laws adopted on January 16, 2014
https://rada.gov.ua/en/news/News/News/87088.html

Brief legal analysis of the human rights violations of the bills adopted on January 16, 2014
https://www.civicsolidarity.org/sites/default/files/ukraine_legal_analysis.pdf


Infrastructure of human rights:

Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VII convocation
https://static.rada.gov.ua/site/eng2/committees.htm

Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
https://www.ombudsman.gov.ua/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=54


Human rights NGOs:

Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
https://www.khpg.org/en/

Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
https://helsinki.org.ua/en/

Association of Ukrainian Human Rights Monitors on Law Enforcement
https://umdpl.info

International Women’s Rights Center “La Strada Ukraine”
https://www.la-strada.org.ua/

Social Action Center – No Borders Project
https://noborders.org.ua/

Institute of Mass Information
https://imi.org.ua/en/


Freedom of media:

Committee to Protect Journalists: Journalists killed in Ukraine
https://cpj.org/killed/europe/ukraine/

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media: situation in Ukraine between 28 November 2013 and 23 May 2014
https://www.osce.org/fom/118990?download=true

OSCE: Observations and recommendations of the Representative on Freedom of the Media: Ukraine, 2004
https://www.osce.org/fom/33440?download=true

OSCE: Representative on Freedom of the Media: Reviews and analysis of Laws of Ukraine
https://www.osce.org/fom/25432?download=true

OSCE: Representative on Freedom of the Media: situation in Ukraine, 1999
https://www.osce.org/fom/25461?download=true


Children’s rights:

United Nations: Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Ukraine, 1995
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2fC%2f15%2fAdd.42&Lang=en

United Nations: Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Ukraine, 2002
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2fC%2f15%2fAdd.191&Lang=en

United Nations: Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Ukraine, 2011
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2fC%2fUKR%2fCO%2f3-4&Lang=en

UNICEF: Humanitarian situation report: Ukraine, 2014
https://www.unicef.org/ukraine/Ukraine_SitRep_18_19_September_2014_EN.pdf

UNICEF: Convention on the Right of the Child
https://www.unicef.org/crc/


Minority rights

World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples: Ukraine overview
https://www.minorityrights.org/5053/ukraine/ukraine-overview.html

Council of Europe: Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: opinion on Ukraine, 1999
https://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/minorities/3_FCNMdocs/PDF_1st_OP_Ukraine_en.pdf

Council of Europe: Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: opinion on Ukraine, 2008
https://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/minorities/3_FCNMdocs/PDF_2nd_OP_Ukraine_en.pdf

Council of Europe: Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: opinion on Ukraine, 2012
https://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/minorities/3_FCNMdocs/PDF_3rd_OP_Ukraine_en.pdf

Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights: Ukraine, 2007
https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1190727&Site=COE&BackColorInternet=B9BDEE&BackColorIntranet=FFCD4F&BackColorLogged=FFC679

Council of Europe: concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : Ukraine, 2008
https://www.refworld.org/topic,50ffbce582,50ffbce5a3,478632472,0,CESCR,,UKR.html

OSCE: Human right and minority rights situation in Ukraine, 2014
https://www.osce.org/odihr/118476?download=true

Last update

9/12/2014