Kyiv, 16 June 2015 - The Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights hosted a meeting for civic activists and human rights defenders interested in preparing alternative reports to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The kick-off meeting was supported within the framework of UNDP's Democratization and Human Rights in Ukraine programme.

The Crimean Human Rights Field Mission and the Human Rights Information Centre introduce the overview of the situation of freedom of speech in Crimea as of May 2015.

Euromaidan SOS introduced a monthly report "Crimea. Chronicles of Occupation" with chronological description of arrests, attacks, interrogations, and fabricated court hearings. The first edition of the Chronicles presents a rather gloomy situation of residents of the peninsula who remained one-on-one with the occupation authorities in the spring.

9 June 2015, Kyiv – More than a hundred of civic activists, governmental officials, and representatives of international organizations gathered at the roundtable to discuss the progress in implementing the 2014-2015 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan approved by the Government in November last year.

Kyiv, 8 June 2015 – A working group of experts from civil society, academia, and government gathered to conduct an inventory of today's Ukrainian civil society for the upcoming National Strategy for Support of Civil Society Development in Ukraine.

Kyiv, 8 June 2015 – The Office of the Ombudsperson held an interview with the pre-selected candidates for the positions of Regional Coordinators for public relations of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsperson) in Zakarpattia, Zhytomyr, and Kherson regions. Now, the 11-strong network of regional coordinators has expanded by 3 additional regions in Ukraine.