Lawyers of NGO "Skadovshchyna is my native land" help a resident of Kherson oblast obtain a passport of a citizen of Ukraine. A young woman has lived withoutidentity documentsfor 23 years. The article also provides the main legal points for registering the birth of a child and establishing the fact of birth through the court.
The situation that occurred in July in the village of Korsuntsi, Odesa oblast, had the risks of becoming a conflict on a multiethnic basis, such as last year's in Loshchynivka. Employees of Human Rights Roma Center went to the scene and managed to reconcile the parties.
People of different nationalities of different ages and professions came to the International Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day on August 2 to commemorate the Roma who were tortured in the beginning of the Second World War. The musical poetic composition "Babi Yar. Let's live, Roma!” was presented by Roma Academic Music and Drama Theater "Romance".
Nine young people worked as volunteers of the special "Roma (Unknown)" Program, which was first introduced at the VII Arsenal Book Festival in Kyiv this year. We talked to them and found at least 7 reasons why (especially for Roma youth) to become volunteers of Roma program.
In Berlin, on June 8, 2017, European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture started its work - the first institution to establish the cultural presence of about 12 million Roma in Europe.
From July 17, the second series of the educational video "Lessons of the Romani Language" is in public access. This is the second thematic cartoon, created by a team from Lviv led by a young Roma activist Oleksandr Grygorychenko. Legal Space waited for the premiere on YouTube and introduces viewers to the new animated video.
It was not a week since employees of Odessa Human Rights Roma Center decided to embody a new direction of work: to warn begging, especially among children. On July 1 they went to the first such raid around Odessa.
An annual conference of scholars and graduates of the program "Jurisprudence and Humanities" of the Roma Educational Fund took place in Kyiv on July 10 and 11. This year it gathered more than 50 scholars from Ukraine, Moldova and Russia.
Two legal lessons were held for adolescents by lawyers and volunteers from Cherkasy NGO "Law Center". Now, the students of the Cherkasy Physics and Mathematics Lyceum and the Smila Boarding School know about discrimination, in particular against the Roma minority, how to recognize and prevent manifestations of hostile attitude towards people on the grounds of "being different".
The tragedy in the village of Vilshany of the Kharkiv region, where the Roma were killed, gave rise to a press briefing on May 26 at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center. Human rights activists and a representative of the Ombudsman talk about the systematic manifestations of xenophobia, the inaction of the authorities and urge the National Police to investigate hate crimes.
