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I need to contact a western ukranian woman
Hello, I need to contact a west ukranian woman to know well situation in this country. Western, because in eastern part of the country I know information is not free and true at all!Thank you
Tom
HRW
Anche voi in Bielorussia avete la vostra bella gatta da pelare. L'ultimo vero dittatore europeo. Uno che da 25 anni trucca le elezioni indisturbato e che, grazie anche al nostro rapporto, non ha nemmeno potuto presentarsi alle olimpiadi di Londra, perchè è un tipo davvero IMPRESENTABILE! Conosco il tuo paese quasi come il mio.
Ringrazio tutte le donne ucraine per le notizie e colgo l'occasione per dichiarare che sono vicino a tutti i dissidenti ucraini che lottano e si sacrificano per migliorare questo grande paese e liberarlo dal regime corrotto che ha. Questo è un paese molto amico dell'Italia e con persone dotate di un grande cuore e merita di piú.
Tommaso,i know what was here during period of Timoshenko,media can lie only people who never lived here.The best candidat for ukranien people(i don`t mean Timoshenko or Yanukovich) would barely satisfie other countries,because he would think about ukranien interests,not somebody else.
Tommaso,o visited many countries,including USA,France,German,about 10,whay at all you think,i didn`t?And i can tell a lot of people living in France,for example,absolutely insatisfied of their gouverment.And a lot men have in their profile desire to change countries.
Lascia perdere! Non paragonare quei paesi all'Ucraina, altrimenti devo fare un'articolo troppo lungo eh? Ti informo che io sono stato ben 4o giorni in Ucraina a parlare con la gente di vari posti e l'ho fatto per lavoro, non per divertimento! E per un lavoro dove nemmeno mi pagano, questo per farti capire qualcosa!
Le cose lì le vedono meglio le persone che stanno fuori, ricordalo!
A voi non dicono tutto quello che stanno rubando, perchè rubano a voi, non a noi!
Dá retta a me. Paragona il tu paese al Guatemala, al Marocco o al Perú. Lascia perdere Francia e Germania!
Tu parli di cose che nemmeno conosci e poi mi tocca farti fare una brutta figura e non voglio.
Un cittadino francese o tedesco ha un potere d'acquisto di beni e servizi che è di circa 4 volte quelo di un ucraino. Secondo: un cittadino tedesco e francese gode di una pensione e di una protezione sociale che un ucraino nemmeno riesce a sognarsi Terzo: un cittadino tedesco e francese gode di un controllo sulla spesa del governo che nemmeno ti sogni. Se un governo francese o tedesco mettesse in essere contratti pubblici del tipo di quelli che firmano in Ucraina, quei governanti sarebbero costretti a dimettersi nel giro di un giorno e verrebbero incriminati con un reato molto grave che comporta la prigione da 10 a 15 anni e questo reato si chiama PECULATO!
Quando voi avrete un potere d'acquisto come cittadini almeno decente e almeno un abbozzo di stato sociale, riuscendo a pagare le tasse per averlo, allora potrete anche parlare! E potrete parlare quando potrete andare a votare senza che vi trucchino le elezioni sotto il naso! Avez vous comrpis, madame?
A causa della detenzione inumana e vergognosa nelle modalitá della signora Yulia Tomoshenko, l'Ucraina ha rischiato di perdere i mondiali di calcio ed è stata condannata dalla corte Europea dei Diritti Umani! Ma stai scherzando, o parli seriamente?
Amnesty International - Ukraine
Torture and other ill-treatment remained widespread, and impunity for such acts continued. Failings in the criminal justice system led to lengthy periods of pre-trial detention, and a lack of safeguards for detainees. Refugees and asylum-seekers risked detention and forcible return to countries where they faced human rights violations. The rights of LGBTI individuals were at risk.
Torture and other ill-treatment
There were continuing reports of torture and other ill-treatment in police detention. In a report on a visit to Ukraine in 2011, published in November, the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture stated that it had been “inundated with allegations from detained persons” who had been subjected to physical or psychological ill-treatment by police officers. Shevchenkivskiy police station in Kyiv was singled out as being particularly “problematic”.
On 18 September, Parliament passed legislation allowing the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights’ Office to carry out the functions of a National Preventive Mechanism, in fulfilment of Ukraine’s obligations under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture.
Mikhail Belikov, a retired miner, was tortured by police officers from Petrovskiy District police station in Donetsk on 17 June. He was approached by three duty police officers in a park for drinking in public. He reported that he was beaten in the park and then taken to the Petrovskiy District sub-police station, where a fourth duty police officer raped him with a police baton while three other policemen held him down. A more senior officer told him to forget what had happened, and asked him to pay 1,500 hryvna (€144) to be released. He agreed to pay and was released without charge. That night his condition worsened considerably. He was taken to hospital where doctors found that he had suffered serious internal injuries, and he would require a temporary colostomy. At the end of the year, three police officers were on trial for five separate incidents of beating and extortion, going back to 2009, including the torture of Mikhail Belikov. Two of the officers were charged with torture, under Article 127 of the Criminal Code.
Impunity
In October, members of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Ukraine’s human rights situation recommended that Ukraine should create an independent body to investigate cases of torture and guarantee compensation to victims. Ukraine had not replied to this and the other 145 recommendations made to it by the Review before the end of the year. Victims of torture and other ill-treatment continued to experience difficulty in getting their complaints investigated. Punishments handed down by the courts often did not reflect the gravity of the crime.
On 5 January, police officer Serhiy Prikhodko received a five-year suspended sentence for abuse of office for causing the death of Ihor Indylo in police custody in Shevchenkivskiy police station in Kyiv in May 2010. A second police officer, Serhiy Kovalenko, had been amnestied in December 2011 on the basis that he had a young child. On 14 May, the Kyiv Appeal Court cancelled both the suspended sentence and the amnesty, and returned the case for further investigation. On 29 October the Kyiv Appeal Court again asked for additional investigation.
On 23 March, Ihor Zavadskiy, a celebrated accordion player, was detained in Kyiv and subjected to torture and other ill-treatment by police officers. He alleged that he was thrown to the ground outside his home and beaten by a group of plain-clothes police officers, who searched him, took his mobile phone, and searched his apartment without a warrant, and that he was then subjected to further torture and other ill-treatment at Shevchenkivskiy police station in Kyiv. Three police officers beat him and one of them squeezed his testicles causing extreme pain. At one point he lost consciousness when he was thrown to the ground, hitting his head on the floor. Police officers insisted on interrogating him without a lawyer; he did not see a lawyer until 27 March. He was subsequently charged with “violent unnatural gratification of sexual desire” and “debauchery of minors”. He lodged a complaint with the district prosecutor about the torture and other ill-treatment on 2 April. He was only informed on 3 July that a decision had been taken on 6 April not to start a criminal investigation into the torture allegations. The Shevchenkivskiy District Court overturned the prosecutor’s decision on 31 July, and returned the case for additional investigation. At the end of the year there was no information about the progress of the investigation. The case against Ihor Zavadskiy was ongoing.
Refugees and asylum-seekers
Ukraine continued to breach its international human rights obligations under the UN Refugee Convention by complying with extradition requests even in cases where the individuals concerned were recognized refugees or asylum-seekers.
On 20 September, the Ukrainian authorities returned Ruslan Suleymanov to Uzbekistan, in violation of Ukraine’s obligations under the UN Convention against Torture, and the UN Refugee Convention. He remained in pre-trial detention in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, at the end of the year. Ruslan Suleymanov had moved to Ukraine in November 2010, fearing an unfair trial, torture and other ill-treatment in Uzbekistan, after the construction company he worked for was targeted by rival business interests. He was detained in Ukraine on 25 February 2011, and in May 2011 the General Prosecutor’s Office confirmed his extradition to Uzbekistan to stand trial for alleged economic crimes. Although his application for asylum in Ukraine was rejected, he had been recognized by UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, as a refugee, and they were actively seeking his resettlement.
On 19 October, Leonid Razvozzhayev, a Russian citizen and aide to Russian opposition MP Ilya Ponomaryov, was reportedly abducted by Russian law enforcement officers in Kyiv from outside the offices of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society, where he had gone for legal assistance and advice in order to apply for asylum in Ukraine. On 22 October, Leonid Razvozzhayev alleged that he was subjected to torture or other ill-treatment upon his return to Russia to force him to incriminate himself and other opposition activists in planning mass disorder. On 25 October, a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that Leonid Razvozzhayev had been abducted “by law enforcement officers or law enforcement officers of another state”. He stated that this was not a criminal matter, but “a matter of co-operation between law enforcement agencies, about which I know nothing.”
In June, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, noted that, despite the new 2011 Refugee Law, procedures and legislation still fell short of international standards. In particular, asylum-seekers, who are frequently undocumented, risked detention for up to 12 months for illegally staying in Ukrainian territory.
In January, 81 people detained in two migrant accommodation centres, the majority of whom were Somali nationals, declared a hunger strike to protest against their detention. They had been detained and sentenced to up to 12 months “for the purposes of deportation”, following a police action to control “illegal immigration” at the end of December 2011. No Somali nationals had ever been returned from Ukraine, and forcible returns to Somalia would have been unlawful in all but exceptional circumstances. At least one detainee was registered with the UNHCR as an asylum-seeker, but many more had been unable to apply for asylum as the Regional Migration Services offices in many parts of Ukraine had not functioned for most of 2011. The detainees ended the hunger strike on 17 February, after the State Migration Service assured them that it would re-open its regional offices in Volyn district, in western Ukraine, and start accepting applications for refugee status and related protection. By November 2012, 53 of the detainees had been released.
Justice system
A new Criminal Procedural Code, with significant improvements on the previous one, was given Presidential assent on 14 May. It clarified that detention starts from the moment of apprehension by the police; that detainees have the right to a lawyer and to an independent medical expert from that moment; and clearly stated that pre-trial detention should only be applied in exceptional circumstances, in line with Council of Europe recommendations. It also provided for automatic review of the continuing justification for pre-trial detention at two-monthly intervals. Concerns remained that a lawyer was only mandatory in cases of especially grave crimes that entail a penalty of more than 10 years in prison, and that free legal aid was also only available in cases where a lawyer was mandatory.
On 27 February, Yuriy Lutsenko, former Minister of Internal Affairs and leader of the People’s Self Defence opposition political party, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and a fine of 643,982 hryvna (€61,621) for misappropriation of state property and abuse of office. Yuriy Lutsenko had been held in pre-trial detention since 26 December 2010. On 3 July the European Court of Human Rights found that Yuriy Lutsenko’s pre-trial detention had violated his right to liberty, as well as having been ordered for political reasons in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. On 17 August, he was found guilty additionally for professional negligence for ordering illegal surveillance of a driver while investigating the poisoning of former President Yushchenko. His sentence remained unchanged.
A new trial against former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko for tax evasion was due to start in April, but was postponed for health reasons. The new charges, which were made in October 2011, related to her activities as president of the energy trading company United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) from 1995 to 1997. She continued to serve a seven-year sentence under politically motivated charges of abuse of office for signing a multi-million dollar energy contract with Russia in January 2009, while she was Prime Minister.
Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people
In October, Parliament passed the second reading of a draft law “On amendments to some legislative acts (to protect the right of children to a safe information environment)”. The Law proposed to ban the production, importation or distribution of publications, film or video materials promoting homosexuality. If enacted, the law would severely restrict the right to freedom of expression of LGBTI individuals.
On 20 May, the Kyiv Pride march was called off just 30 minutes before it was due to begin after police warned that a large number of nationalist and religious protesters had threatened to interrupt the march. One of the organizers was beaten by a gang of youths and another was sprayed with mace.
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International justice
On 24 October, the government stated that Ukraine remained committed to the idea of the establishment of an International Criminal Court. However, no steps were taken to make the necessary legislative changes to implement the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities to which Ukraine acceded on 20 January 2000 and 29 January 2007 respectively.
Puoi anche andare in Lettonia a Riga. Vá davanti al Parlamento quando c'è una riunione dello stesso Parlamento Lettone e chiedi a un parlamentare quanto guadagna e come si reca in Parlamento. Capirai molte cose!
Te lo dico io. Il parlamentare o qualsiasi membro del governo si reca in parlamento o a piedi o con mezzi pubblici e tutto quello che decide il governo, qualsiasi contratto subisce il controllo della Corte Dei Conti. Se qualcosa non va o ci sono irregolaritá il contratto non viene approvato e il governante o il ministro che l'ha promosso deve dimettersi e viene subito denunciato!
Questo avviene in Lettonia, ma anche in Germania, Francia, Italia e Danimarca ad esempio!
Не пишите то , в чем вы не можете быть уверены , выглядит по меньшей мере не серьезно ...
Boris
Dear Tommaso, please stop with this "regime change" madness. No one of us is entitled to tell the people anywhere in the world how to live. You want to "export democracy"? The US-Americans exported it to Iraq and Afghanistan, there was the "Arab Spring" in Egypt, Tunesia, Lybia... Should I tell you about the results? Please go to a political forum and discuss that stuff there.
Tommaso,let`s tell the truth-good politic for other country-is who give up interests of his own country,Eltzin was perfect for the western world,and bad for Russia,it was not only corruption,but banditry-and selling wealth of country and secrets abroade-and nobody against!In Saudi Arabi rights of women almost doesn`t exist-"who cares,they are our supporeters".Even comfortable-in the right time(when supporter became unnecessary),one can say-'o,we didn`t know,let`s bomb them"(and place on the throne somebody else who will be our puppet).So,Syrie,like Kongo and Alger before,however they call fascist actions-it`s stay the same.By the way Internet full of stories children who called some organisation who "protect their right"fascistic,too,especially one,who managed to run away from his foster family and illegally cross the border.
Tommaso ,i appreciate your efforts and work)), talking about the purchasing power of the average citizen, it's like talking about the average temperature in the hospital. If you really think somebody give to foreign organizations what they really gets, if this information sometimes hidden from own gouverment?)))The same person can live good in Ukraine , and bad in Norway ,USA,well,maybe Marocco is better, I don`t know))).At least Agradir good city ,my friends worked there. If women come in western country and see she can`t even have a warm place (a lot of complaints about heatings)or afford a warm shower daily, all these figures won`t work. She won`t think-o, I feel bad, frozen, but, it`s ok, I am freezing in very developed country, at least, according to “Human rights watch”))).Or i can`t hire repairman and I have “bricoler” (very popular word in France, isn`t it?) so make it myself. My colleague from Donetsk, who worked about 6 month in one English town, left that, having good work and guy from there, she had more in her city.
Norway's child protection services
Always new stories about the norwegian child protection services' (from now called CPS) increasing use of illegal methods, threats and lies - totally ignoring human rights.
ECHR have on several occations critizised norwegian authorities for violating norwegian and international laws and regulations, including UN-regulations, but nothing seems to change the fatal direction the CPS have taken the past 30 years.
This happens to thousands of norwegian families. The CPS removes thousands of children, and less than two percent are returned to their families. Many parents never meet their children again, many get to meet their children as little as four hours every second month - on a place away from home, under strict supervision from the CPS.
This can start with something as stupid as your neighbour disliking you. He/she calles anonymous to the CPS and tells whatever about you. The CPS rush in and take your child and then they use practically anything against you. You will never see your mother again," officers of Norwegian child protection agencies (barnevern) told a 13-year-old boy when they were taking him away from his home. The boy is currently living with a foster family. His biggest dream now is to get back to his mother as soon as possible. Seeking help, the boy wrote several emails to the Russian embassy, in which he told his story. Local social services took the woman's two children away from her. The younger son, Misha, a citizen of Norway, was delivered to his father. The elder son, Sasha, 13, a Russian citizen, was settled in a foster family.
Ma stai scherzando? Questa è Amnesty International, non una buffonata!
Scusa Boris ma cosa c'entra Amnesty International con gli americani?
Cosa c'entra Eltzin con i ladri che avete voi e che vi stanno affamando?
Senti Yana con te è impossibile discutere di fatti oggettivi. Vivi in una cittá orribile con un'aria irrespirabile (la piú sporca e inquinata dell'Ucraina ed una delle piú inquinate al mondo) e un'acqua imbevibile, con stipendi da fame con un tenore di vita orribile e vuoi venire qui a dissertare di Francia, Germania e Norvegia! Ma non ti rendi conto che questo è ridicolo?
Guarda che questo forum lo leggono anche uomini europei di Olanda, Germania, Francia e Norvegia! Guarrda che in questi paesi chi va in pensione prende l'80% dell'ultimo stipendio e questo stipendio non è lo stipendio da fame medio ucraino! La sanitá è di altissimo livello e totalmente gratuita, così come gli asili per i bambini! Le lezioni sono regolari e chi ruba va in galera! Se ti ammali in Ucraina e non hai i soldi, ti lasciano crepare! Ma cosa vieni qui a scrivere?
Ma non capisci che dove stai ad ogni contratto pubblico ti rubano miliardi di hrvinas da sotto il muso? Datti una regolata, va!
La politica non c'entra assolutamente nulla con la difesa dei diritti umani. La politica dovrebbe essere un servizio per la gente, non un occasione per rubare a chi amministri, per giunta pagato per farlo! Se per poter amministrare un popolo devi tortuare i dissidenti, tu non fai politica! Sei solo un criminale!
Boris tu confondi la politica con la difesa dei diritti umani. Io mi guardo bene dal far politica, ma se un prigioniero viene torturato o un oppositore viene imprigionato per le sue idee, io combatto! Se un governante ladro affama il suo popolo rubando sui contratti pubblici, io lo denuncio. Chi ruba al popolo non fa politica: è un ladro, un criminale!
Tu vivi nel paese meno corrotto del mondo! Dovresti sapere che se in Svizzera un govenante ruba solo un franco finisce in galera e buttano via le chiavi!
Boris
Tommaso....try first with Italian, Greek etc. prisons...they are no Kindergarten as well....
Boris
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, you name it...they are AMERICAN....
Boris
I've born and was raised in former Yugoslavia...I know the positives and negatives of western democracies, totalitarian regimes and the shades between. EU is developing towards EUDSSR....look how they handle smaller countries (Ireland, Iceland, Greece)
No!!! Sono organizzazioni mondiali affiliate all'ONU. L'ONU non è degli USA
L'Islanda non ha problemi dopo essere uscita dall'euro. Il problema è che l'Europa non è stata fatta. Si sono fermati a metá del guado e molti rischiano d'essere portati via dalla corrente! Vedi Grecia. Prima si fa l'unione politica e poi quella monetaria, altrimenti certe economie l'euro non possono reggerlo!
Stiamo parlando di diritti umani e di ladri al governo! L'argomento è un altro.
Verissimo. L'Italia ha una situazione carceraria disastrosa con sovraffollamento e non rispetto dei diritti umani. Credi che non ci siano rapporti molto negativi sull'Italia per questo e per altre cose? Ci sono eccome!
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