UKRAINE

Overview

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. According to official data, it has a population of about 42,500,000 inhabitants. Its area is 603,549 square kilometres, making it the largest country in Europe in terms of area.

The capital: Kyiv

The official state language: Ukrainian. Russian is also widely spoken.

Information about the ISHR Ukrainian Section

On December 10, 1993, 25 Ukrainian human rights defenders, mostly they were former Soviet civil rights activists, founded the Ukrainian Section of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR Ukrainian Section). Today the Ukrainian Section has 3,500 registered members in all regions of Ukraine, most of whom have formed working groups.

ISHR-Ukraine promotes and supports measures and efforts aimed at the recognition and implementation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 10, 1948. ISHR-Ukraine’s main principle is to support only those individuals and associations that do not use weapon or other means of violence in their struggle for human rights. ISHR does not support individuals and associations that advocate a totalitarian form of government or call for the use of violence.

Since its foundation, the organization has, on the one hand, provided individual legal assistance and, on the other hand, monitored trials, promoted the rule of law, as well as educated universities and colleges and influenced the enforcement of sentences in accordance with human rights and the humanization of the system as a whole. It promotes practical steps towards solving the problem of “street children” and has been providing humanitarian assistance to children in need since its foundation. Since 2022, IAC-ISHR, the section’s working group, which consists exclusively of lawyers and law interns, has been providing humanitarian help to refugees and other victims of the Russian armed invasion to Ukraine in the field of WASH (water, sanitation, hygiene) cluster under the mandate of the UN Refugee Agency.

News

Ukraine: Russian troops exploded Hydroelectric Power Plant in Kherson Region

Ukraine: Russian troops exploded Hydroelectric Power Plant in Kherson Region

Ecocide in Ukraine. Up to 80 settlements at risk of flooding On June 6, Operational Command "South" reported that Russian troops had exploded the Kakhovska Hydroelectric Power Plant located in ...
ISHR helps Ukrainian schools and communities

ISHR helps Ukrainian schools and communities

ISHR team provides humanitarian aid in Poltava and Sumy regions On April 20, 2023, 3 boilers and 3 sanitary kits were donated to the Sahaydatsky school in Shyshaky territorial community, ...
ISHR team continues to help Ukrainian territorial communities

ISHR team continues to help Ukrainian territorial communities

ISHR team provides humanitarian aid in Ukrainian territorial communities ISHR supports medical institutions in different regions of Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia. During our work in Zaporizhzhia region, ISHR team visited five ...
OHCHR: Treatment of prisoners of war (24 February 2022 - 23 February 2023)

OHCHR: Treatment of prisoners of war (24 February 2022 – 23 February 2023)

OHCHR: Treatment of Prisoners of War and Persons Hors de Combat in the Context of the Armed Attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine (24 February 2022 - 23 February ...
OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August 2022 - 31 January 2023)

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August 2022 – 31 January 2023)

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August 2022 - 31 January 2023) The thirty-fifth report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) ...
ISHR team distributes warming and hygiene kits

ISHR team distributes warming and hygiene kits

February 26 - March 6, 2023. ISHR team provides humanitarian aid in Sumy and Poltava regions Help from the ISHR team is very welcomed in the border regions! On February ...
Meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Ignalina

Meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Ignalina

Meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Ignalina The Lithuanian section of the International Society for Human Rights has been supporting Ukrainian refugees on an ongoing basis since the beginning of the ...
Beds for the Kherson Military Hospital

Beds for the Kherson Military Hospital

Beds for the Kherson Military Hospital IGFM-Wittlich and the International Society for Human Rights handed over another batch of humanitarian aid to the Belarusian organisation "Nash Dom" in Lithuania. This ...