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CSO nomination meeting to pick 4 Selection Panel members for NAPC scheduled 17th May

As discussed at the meeting on 24 April, the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) leadership is to be selected soon. Five members of the collegiate NAPC are to be picked through a participatory and transparent processthat will incorporate civic voices on the Selection Panel.

Property and land issues in occupied Crimea: human rights deficit

7 May, Kyiv - The issue of illegal nationalization by self-proclaimed Crimean authorities and the Russian government was discussed at a roundtable on "Property and land issues in occupied Crimea: human rights deficit" with MP Heorhiy Lohvynskyy, Chairman of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov, and Crimea experts.

Compliance Committee of the Aarhus Convention considered the case on production sharing agreements

EPL's communication to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee with regard to product sharing agreements was found admissible.

New study on rural women rights reveals gaps and challenges

30 April 2015, Kyiv – UNDP and the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights hosted a presentation of the comprehensive study on the status of rights of women living in the rural areas of Ukraine.

"Cauldron" for civilians? How to organize an effective evacuation

30 April 2015, Kyiv – The Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights and human rights CSOs with the support of UNDP jointly held a roundtable on devising and ensuring an effective civilians' evacuation plan for representatives of government, international organizations, civil society, and volunteer community, as well as human rights activists and journalists.

New viz tool helps citizens control city budgets

29 April 2015, Lviv – "So, you mean all data? All in this graph?" – Lviv journalists did not believe their eyes, whilst going through the budget visualization tool presented in the municipality. Today, city budget data in Lviv was morphed into interactive infographics: a fruit of work done by the Lviv municipality and UNDP through the Open Budget tool designed to make understanding of a complex city budget data easier by the common citizenry.