А вот и на английском

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На эстонском я уже давал ссылку. 

IInterview with the head of the council of EHRC – Evhen Tsybulenko

1. You are the head of the council of the Estonian Human Rights Centre since the beginning. Tell us a little about how and why you became a member of the council as well as your connection with human rights in general.

Before my academic career I worked at the International Committee of the Red Cross as an officer responsible for promotion and implementation of International Humanitarian Law (also known as Law of Armed Conflicts). My Ph.D. thesis was also dedicated to IHL. Sure, IHL and Human Rights are not exactly the same branches of law, but they have a lot of common features. The goal is also the same – to protect people. Fortunately, Estonia is a peaceful country and my involvement in IHL is mostly limited to teaching it at TUT and periodically at Baltic Defense College. Human Rights is a branch of law, which is mostly applicable at peace time (even if hard core human rights could not be derogated even at war time), that’s why in Estonia Human Rights are more relevant.

I was a founder and first director of the International University Audentes’s Human Rights Centre. After the merger of Audentes with TUT the centre was divided for two independent parts – Tallinn Law School’s Human Rights Centre at the Tallinn University of Technology, which is mainly responsible for scientific aspects of Human Rights and EHRC, which is more involved in solving of practical problems. Naturally two centers are working in close co-operation and I am involved in both – as the Director of the first and the Head of the Council of the second.

2. How do you see the future of EHRC – which direction should the centre be heading and how do you think the centre has done so far?

The EHCR is a young institution, but it is already well known in Estonia. I believe that the progress is very good. Currently the centre is involved in research and monitoring of HR and has possibility and recourses to provide assistance to people in two very important areas – equal treatment and refugees. Meanwhile the Human Rights are much broader and I am sure that in the future EHRC will help to in other areas as well.

3. You are also a professor of law and a professor at Kyiv International University. In your opinion, should human rights be taught/dealt with more in universities? Why?

I believe that in TLS TUT Human Rights are covered properly. We have compulsory courses on HR for Bachelor and Master students, furthermore HR are briefly covered at the Public International Law courses. Meanwhile I think that HR should be taught not only at law departments because all people are beneficiaries of HR. Respectively all people should be familiar with human rights.

4. How do you see the general situation of human rights in Estonia? Are there some areas that should be dealt with more? Or should some issues be discussed more?

There are no ideal countries in terms of human rights. There are some problems everywhere. I believe that in Estonia the situation is more or less average comparing to other EU countries. I can’t see any serious violations of basic human rights in Estonia. Furthermore the situation is improving. While Estonia is one of the Europe’s leaders in the field of freedom of speech and freedom of expression in a broader sense, this includes the freedom of press and freedom of internet. From the other hand there are a lot of minor issues which could be improved and we are trying to do it.

5. During the past few years the human rights situation in Ukraine has gone worse. In which direction would you predict the situation going f.e in the next 10 years? Why?

It’s not an easy question for a short answer. We should have a look to a history. At time of Soviet occupation a lot of people were heavily assimilated in Ukraine, especially in Eastern parts of the country. Many people were killed directly or by several artificial famines, which were organized by criminal soviet regime. Furthermore a lot of Russians were relocated to Ukrainian territory from other parts of Soviet Union. As a result a big part of Ukrainian population has lost Ukrainian identity. Instead they have received a soviet mentality. They don’t speak Ukrainian, do not familiar with Ukrainian history and culture.

Political process in Ukraine nowadays is an epic fight between Ukrainian pro-western mentality and Soviet mentality. Naturally I hope that Ukrainian mentality will be more successful in nearest future, but it is hard to predict.

http://humanrights.ee/en/2012/11/interview-with-the-head-of-the-council-of-ehrc-evhen-tsybulenko/

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