The father of the lost ATO combatant addressed Chuhuiv human rights group with a request to help establish the fact of his son’s participation in military operations when being in ATO zone, and also the fact of his death during combats in the temporarily occupied territory when performing a combat mission.

In August the Legal Space published the story of the serviceman Victor Nazarenko who was fighting for reinstatement in work.

Valery Holodnyak, resident of Golopristansky district in Kherson region fails to issue the ATO combatant status for several months. The reason is the military units where he served do not send necessary references. They were not done in time, and now the soldier feels like everyone just forgot about him.

In November lawyers of the All-Ukrainian Charity Foundation "GORENIE" provided 9823 free consultations to internally displaced persons. The aid was rendered in five regions: Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Poltava, Zakarpattya and on the liberated territory of Donetsk region.

Since the beginning of November in Slovyansk, Artemivsk, Kramatorsk, Chervonyi Lyman, Konstantynivka and Druzhkova psychotherapeutic groups that hold weekly events for adults and children are organized. Groups work has two streams: art therapy and edutaining classes.

Iryna is a yoga master from Luhansk with 10 years' experience and a set of her own programs. Having gone to spiritual travel across Tibet with a suitcase and two hammocks, she never came back home. Now she has a small yoga studio in Dnipropetrovsk that is never empty and provides happiness to guests. This is not just yoga, but the "flying" one. CF "Gorenie" web portal talked to Iryna about events that brought her to Dnipropetrovsk, why she decided to inspire people and why she was grateful to All-Ukrainian charity foundation "Gorenie".

The woman with disability lost a lot of important documents, money and personal belongings in the train. The young mother who alone raises two children could not suffer poverty any more. In Chop Law Community Center the Roma women received both free legal aid and moral support.

Lawyers from Rivne region managed to get the verdict of not guilty for a group of Roma women who were accused upon five Articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. They proved that provocation from policemen took place; therefore, the evidence obtained this way was inadmissible.

Within civil society advocacy campaign for elimination of legislative disagreements in issuing identity documents to members of Roma minority that started in October, 2015 employees of CF “Rozvytok” developed social advertizing to draw attention of citizens and especially authorities to problems of Roma who have no identity documents. Since December 9, 2015 advertizing is placed in three cities of Zakarpattya area: Mukachevo, Uzhgorod and Svalyava.

Ukraine celebrated the Human Rights Day, on December 10, through big actions, events, discussions live and online. Many human rights activists, experts, representatives of CSOs expressed their opinions on this holiday, congratulated colleagues on their social media pages.

Thousands of people from generation to generation live in this country without documents and nationality for over 20 years. They are absent in official databases and remain absolutely invisible to the state, deprived of all rights and often being on the verge of survival.

Next year the system of providing free legal aid will be expanded and will receive functions of judicial authorities at local level. The Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko reported about it on December 21, 2015 during visit to the First Kyiv Center for providing free secondary legal aid.

The pensioner Galyna Brazhnik from the village of Kamenka in Kharkiv region couldn't rent the land plot owned by her long enough. The reason was officials wrote the wrong surname of the woman in the State Certificate On Land Ownership. Lawyers of the Dvorichansky Law Community Center helped Galyna correct the error in the Certificate through court.

The lawyer Olena Storozhuk achieved a not-guilty verdict for her client Nazar*. The guy was accused of illegal purchase, storage and transfer of methadone.

The pensioner Galyna Brazhnik from the village of Kamenka in Kharkiv region couldn't rent the land plot owned by her long enough. The reason was officials wrote the wrong surname of the woman in the State Certificate On Land Ownership. Lawyers of the Dvorichansky Law Community Center helped Galyna correct the error in the Certificate through court.