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Ukraine recently included a chapter on BHR as part of its National Human Rights Strategy.
For more information on BHR in Ukraine, contact Olena Uvarova (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University) or Ella Skybenko (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre): uvarova.info@gmail.com, skybenko@business-humanrights.org
Recent Posts
The draft law, which must still be signed by Zelenskiy, would introduce a legal definition for an oligarch, create a register of tycoons, and impose limitations on their activities such as blocking them from financing political parties.
The European Investment Bank has financed a series of damaging hydropower projects since 2010 which underline the need to tighten its environmental and social standards, according to a new report published by CEE Bankwatch Network and EuroNatur.
Due diligence and other risk-based approaches are not alien to Ukrainian legislation. The anti-corruption and anti-money laundering due diligence is particularly closely comparable by its constitutive elements to HRDD and may become a foundation for the latter’s introduction in Ukraine.
The world’s costliest Olympic Games, held in Russia in February 2014, were built on widespread and well-documented human rights abuses. This is just one example of the adverse impacts, when governments systematically fail to act to protect human rights in the face of business activities.
This study examines State obligations to prevent and redress corporate-related human rights violations under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
There are places in Europe today where environmental human rights defenders are beaten, threatened, verbally abused, intimidated, or otherwise prevented from carrying out their legitimate activities in a safe and free manner.
Changing the law in favour of investors, sudden approval of controversial projects, unlawful construction of hydropower plants, illegal logging, or persecution of activists. These are some of the cases of accelerated undermining of human rights and destruction of the environment during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Sep 30, 2020
This due diligence guidance is currently available in English and Ukrainian.
Analysis of Ukraine’s National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights, courtesy of the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
