Issue: Anti-discrimination law and other and legal developments in this area
Submitted by: “No Borders” Project/Social Action Centre (Ukraine)
This is the rewiew of situation with the detention of migrants in Ukraine, prepared by the inter-disciplinary research initiative "Global Detention Project".
Source: here
KYIV, Ukraine, 5 April 2013 - UNHCR welcomes that Mr. Abdoumalik Abdoulladjanov, a US recognized refugee, is in good health upon his release from detention since February 5, 2013.
The Regional Representation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees encourages the Ukrainian authorities to extend protection to a US recognized refugee who has been detained at Boryspil airport on February 5, 2013, in response to an Interpol red flag. The person is currently being held under temporary arrest while the General Prosecutor’s Office is considering the request for his extradition.
UNHCR welcomes the fact the Ukrainian authorities are continuing their efforts to improve the quality and harmony of legislation in the area of asylum. As the Visa Liberalization Action Plan between the Ukraine and the European Union stipulates that such legislation should meet both international and European standards, UNHCR continues to support the authorities in understanding and applying these standards. In this regard, we note that the Law on amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine in connection with adoption of the Law of the Law of Ukraine on the Legal Status of Foreigners and Stateless Persons came into power on 15 November 2012.
Kyiv (Ukraine) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is deeply concerned about the disappearance of Leonid Razvozzhaev from Kyiv, Ukraine on 19 October 2012.
Statement on behalf of the Coalition for combating discrimination in Ukraine - Human Dimension Implementation meeting, 03/10/2012
For years on Ukraine had been recommended to develop and adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation. Such recommendations were part of the review mechanisms, came from international human rights bodies and experts. These also became one of a long list of points within the EU-Ukraine Action Plan on visa liberalisation regime. This was the final push for the Ukrainian authorities to start working on the anti-discrimination legislation. But this was also a reason why such work was done in a hurry and without consultations with civil society. This is a reason why Ukraine now has weak and full of gaps anti-discrimination law and many NGOs including the Coalition are campaigning to immediately start work on its amendments. This is also a reason why other openly discriminatory acts are registered at the Parliament and accepted by the society.
Kyiv (Ukraine) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is deeply concerned about the serious risk of refoulement of another refugee facing extradition in spite of a well-founded fear of persecution in his country of origin.
September 10, 2012
On August 31, 2012, Social Action Centre made a statement on behalf of the Coalition of NGOs at the pre-session for the UPR in Geneva (see full text of the statement here). Within 10 days that passed since the pre-session, the situation dramatically changed – Ukrainian Parliament adopted the anti-discrimination law. Now this document awaits the President to sign it before it will enter into full force.
GENERAL FUNCTION:
Within the framework of one of its core initiatives Combating hate crime in Ukraine through legal action supported by the EVZ Foundation (Germany) the Social Action Centre/No Borders Project is looking for a Project Lawyer. The Project Lawyer will be based in Kyiv, however, frequent travel within Ukraine may also be required. The Project lawyer will be hired on the full time basis to perform the following duties under the supervision of the Project Coordinator and with the support of the Project Assistant:
This is the rewiew of situation with the detention of migrants in Ukraine, prepared by the inter-disciplinary research initiative "Global Detention Project".
Source: here
KYIV, Ukraine, 5 April 2013 - UNHCR welcomes that Mr. Abdoumalik Abdoulladjanov, a US recognized refugee, is in good health upon his release from detention since February 5, 2013.
The Regional Representation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees encourages the Ukrainian authorities to extend protection to a US recognized refugee who has been detained at Boryspil airport on February 5, 2013, in response to an Interpol red flag. The person is currently being held under temporary arrest while the General Prosecutor’s Office is considering the request for his extradition.
10 December 2012
The Supreme Court of Hungary (Kúria) issued an official opinion on 10 December 2012 in order to promote a harmonised practice at Hungarian courts regarding the application of the safe third country concept in asylum cases. The concrete reason for issuing such a guidance document was that in recent years, different Hungarian regional courts applied different approaches upon reviewing administrative decisions which deny admission to the in-merit asylum procedure based on the fact that the asylum-seeker arrived in Hungary from a safe third country. This also meant a diverging evaluation of the asylum situation in Serbia (the target country of most safe third country returns of asylum-seekers from Hungary).
UNHCR welcomes the fact the Ukrainian authorities are continuing their efforts to improve the quality and harmony of legislation in the area of asylum. As the Visa Liberalization Action Plan between the Ukraine and the European Union stipulates that such legislation should meet both international and European standards, UNHCR continues to support the authorities in understanding and applying these standards. In this regard, we note that the Law on amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine in connection with adoption of the Law of the Law of Ukraine on the Legal Status of Foreigners and Stateless Persons came into power on 15 November 2012.
September 10, 2012
On August 31, 2012, Social Action Centre made a statement on behalf of the Coalition of NGOs at the pre-session for the UPR in Geneva (see full text of the statement here). Within 10 days that passed since the pre-session, the situation dramatically changed – Ukrainian Parliament adopted the anti-discrimination law. Now this document awaits the President to sign it before it will enter into full force.
The informal coalition of 4 NGOs - Social Action Centre (SAC), Association of Ukrainian Human Rights Monitors on Law-enforcement (UMDPL), Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) and The Gay Forum of Ukraine (GFU) got together to prepare the following submission(1). All member participants have a long history of cooperation in past and are expert in the topic of the discrimination in Ukraine. Main goal of this coalition submission is to draw attention to the problem of discrimination in Ukraine. Despite many previous recommendations from treaty bodies, including recommendations received and accepted by Ukraine within first cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, no significant changes were introduced into legal system in Ukraine to effectively ban discrimination and provide protection to victims of discriminatory acts and practices.
Official Journal L 204 , 26/07/2006 P. 0023 - 0036
Source: link
Official Journal L 373 , 21/12/2004 P. 0037 - 0043
Source: link
Official Journal L 303 , 02/12/2000 P. 0016 - 0022
Source: link
Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.