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.

Statutory mission

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.

Supervisory Board of the Union

On the Supervisory Board are prominent members of the Ukrainian Helsinki group of 1960-80s:

Members

Alliances

Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union is a member of the Coalition "Justice for Peace in Donbas".

Major activities

Recent projects

Annual reports "Human rights in Ukraine"

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.

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