http://khisr.kharkov.ua/ KHARKIV INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL RESEARCHES en http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1337003614 Children held in small, stuffy rooms at airport for hours, often sharing space with adults they are not related to, watchdog finds Mon, 14 May 2012 08:53:34 +0300 http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1332512913 A community order providing an alternative to short-term custodial sentences, which was piloted in Bradford, has been praised for helping to cut reoffending rates in the district. Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:28:33 +0300 http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1332254600 Some results of the monitoring survey of year 2011 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:43:20 +0300 http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1321868958 On November 10-11th, 2011 the global Forum of the Association for Prevention of Torture “Preventing Torture, Upholding Dignity: from Pledges to Actions” held in Geneva. Kharkiv Institute for Social Researches represented Ukrainian experience in this sphere due to invitation of event arranging committee. We should thank the organizers of the Forum and highly appreciate the enormous work, which they have done, gathering over 300 participants from all over the world. Organizers of the Forum have successfully solved all logistical issues and allowed participants to meet, to speak out and to discuss issues about visiting of custodial institutions. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:49:18 +0300 http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1320076971 The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment appeals to establish a system of regular visits undertaken by independent international and national bodies to places where people are deprived of their liberty, in order to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. For the purposes of the Protocol, deprivation of liberty means any form of detention or imprisonment or the placement of a person in a public or private custodial setting which that person is not permitted to leave at will by order of any judicial, administrative or other authority. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:02:51 +0300 http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1317647334 Today, according to the official statistics, there is about half a million of registered unemployed in Ukraine, a total number of unemployed amount to 1.9 million people, among which one-third are 45-59 years old. Representatives of this age group have the biggest living and professional experience, but because of number of reasons they are outside of labor market. One of the reasons is age discrimination. Just therefore in 2010-2011 the Kharkiv Institute for Social Researches held the social survey, dedicated to employment discrimination of seniors (people in age of 45-59 years old). Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:08:54 +0300 http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1314706564 Sociological surveys 2004 – 2010 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:16:04 +0300 http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1313755433 Access to a doctor, to include the one, which is alternative to the doctor offered by law enforcement authorities, is a part of so called “good treatment minimal standard”, which was set and is supported by the European Committee for Prevention of Tortures and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The importance of the right to medical assistance and possible ways of its implementation are really topical for the contemporaneous law enforcement practices of Ukrainian militia. Unfortunately, numerous examples provided by interviewed victims of tortures and ill-treatment confirm these facts. Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:03:53 +0300 http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1313580453 Five years ago, on 21th of July 2006 Ukraine ratified the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). This day was supposed to become the beginning of designating or establishing of the national preventive mechanism (NPM) – independent body, aimed on monitoring places of detention and combating torture and ill-treatment. It was supposed to become, but unfortunately it did not. As it often happens, the State didn’t go further declarations about intentions. Although specialists at enough high level were discussing a necessity of creating such body, its model, after all time spent on the establishment of the NPM, representatives of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture visited our country and stated failure by Ukraine its obligations. At the same time, debates over the necessity and form of the National Preventive Mechanism continues, and key issues still haven’t clear answer and appear at almost every working meeting dedicated on the realization of the Optional Protocol in Ukraine. The traditional question is: “How could we determine that an institution is a subject to independent monitoring?”. In other words – what is the criterion, which allow us to separate people who really are in situation of detention from those who can manage themselves? Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:27:33 +0300 http://khisr.kharkov.ua/index.php?id=1312374084 On invitation of International Organization for Migration representatives of KhISR took a part in monitoring visit to temporary holding facilities of Chop and Mukachevo Border Detachments on 19-20 July 2011 within the project “Support to implementation of the EC readmission agreement with the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine: facilitation of assisted voluntary return and reintegration” (SIREADA). Monitoring places of detention and combating ill-treatment and torture in places of detention of irregular migrants became the main accent of our participation. The delegation is also included representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, General Consulate of Hungary in Uzhgorod, Embassy of Canada, British Embassy, the State Migration Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) of Ukraine, Transcarpathian Regional Administrative Court, the Prosecutors’ Office of Transcarpathian Region, Charitable Foundation "Caritas", NGO “Nika”. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:21:24 +0300