Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union


All-Ukrainian Association of Public Organizations Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union was founded by 15 public human rights organizations on 1 April 2004. UHHRU is a non-profit and non-partisan organization.

Statutory mission

Realization and protection of rights and freedoms by promoting practical implementation of humanitarian articles of the Helsinki Final Act adopted in 1975, other international laws based on it and all other obligations accepted by Ukraine in human rights and freedoms sphere.

Supervisory Board of the Union

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".

Major activities

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. 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 have been published. Their English versions are freely accessible from UHHRU's web-site.

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