In November 2011 the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Fighting Organized Crime and Corruption issued printed copies of the new Law of Ukraine “On Trafficking in Persons” which went into effect on October 15, 2011 as well as related revised articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and the Code of Administrative Violations.

The e-version of the printed law is on the Committee’s website.

Download this publication 2011 Law of Ukraine “On Trafficking in Persons”  (Please, see the LAW OF UKRAINE. On Combating Trafficking in Human Beings On Page # 43)

Razumkov Centre’s National Security and Defence Magazine Issue 7-8/2011: Opposition and authorities in Ukraine:

• Opposition in Ukraine: status and conditions of activity in 2005–2011

• Dividing lines between the authorities and the opposition, normalisation of the relations: expert opinions

• Opposition and its relations with the authorities: Razumkov Centre’s sociological and expert poll

Please, see the full text of the Magazine On the Razumkov Centre’s web-site here: http://www.razumkov.org.ua/eng/journal.php?y=2011&cat=162

The Project "Opposition in Ukraine: new conditions of activity, problems, challenges" presented in this publication was supported by the Parliamentary Development Project II: Legislative Policy Development Program

The Secretariat of the Cabinet Ministers of Ukraine with support of the Parliamentary Development Project for Ukraine launched a bulletin for civic councils. The first issue was presented to representatives of civic councils in Kiev, in the Club of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, July 5.

DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE number 548/2011

On immediate measures to ensure access to public information in subsidiary organs formed by the President of Ukraine

To ensure the implementation of the Law of Ukraine "On access to public information" and guided by the second paragraph of Article 102 of the Constitution of Ukraine, resolve:

DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE number 547/2011

The issue of access of executive agencies to public information

To ensure unconditional fulfillment by bodies of the executive branch of the Law of Ukraine "On access to public information”, fulfillment of the constitutional right of individuals to freely collect, store, use and disseminate information, and following the second paragraph of Article 102 of the Constitution of Ukraine, I resolve:

The main theme of the first issue in 2011 of the magazine "PERIODICAL PARLIAMENT” - regulation of the legislative process. The article outlines the main approaches to the regulation of certain important aspects for Ukraine's legislative process in EU member states, and the main problems of domestic lawmaking are described and recommendations provided for overcoming them.

THE AUTHORITIES AND SOCIETY: Dialog through community councils (February 2011, New Publication Issued with the assistance of PDP II)

In January 2011, the VR ARC Secretariat with the PDP II’s assistance has created a special excursion program for different groups of visitors (official delegations, Crimean students and pupils, etc.). Helen Tamashova - one of the ten interns supported by USAID’s Parliamentary Development Project - has been instrumental in developing the tours conducted for 1.5 hours for groups of up to 15 persons.