Human Rights First Calls on European Officials to Raise Concern on Escalating Hate Crimes in Ukraine

Posted August 25th, 2008 by Anna Zhuravleva

The Fighting Discrimination Program has urged high-ranking European officials to use a September 9 summit meeting with Ukrainian officials to address substantively the precipitous rise in racially-motivated violent hate crimes in Ukraine.

In letters to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in his capacity as president of the EU Council, and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, as well as other senior EU officials, Human Rights First urges the European delegation to the upcoming E.U.- Ukraine Summit to discuss the recent increase in racist and related violence and put forward specific recommendations on how to strengthen the Ukrainian government’s response to the problem.

Read the letter to the EU Council:

http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/pdf/080819-FD-sarkozy-eu-ukraine-summit....

Read the letter to the European Commission:

http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/pdf/080819-FD-barroso-eu-ukraine-summit....