Ukraine citizens rights
Ukraine is a democratic republic. Country citizens elect their president, parliament (Verkhovna Rada), city mayors and deputies of local regional and city councils by means of direct ballot vote.
Constitution of Ukraine sets 40 hours working week, and also guarantees the right to annual vacation to its citizens. Ukrainian Constitution and laws warrant Ukrainian citizens can not be disadvantaged or prosecuted for their political convictions or nationality.
Also the citizens of Ukraine are guaranteed freedom of belief. Constitution of Ukraine assures lodgement and property immunity. Citizen of Ukraine can not be taken in custody or arrested other than by the court decision or sentence. Legislation guarantees and practically assures freedom of speech and press.
Constitution of Ukraine
According to majority of analysts and human rights defenders some laws, decrees and instructions regarding Mass Media, education and culture passed since 2004 and until now are discriminating Russian language and Russian-speaking citizens, which make up about 50% of Ukraine country population according to different polls.
Ukrainian protests against discrimination of Russian language (the poster says “We are for Russian language”)
Ukraine children rights
Free school education is provided free to children under the Constitution of Ukraine, regardless citizenship and parents’ income. Together with free public schools there also exist fee-paying gymnasiums and lyceums, where parents pay for education of their children.
Government subsidizes day-nurseries and kindergartens where kids stay at the day time while their parents are working. Thanks to such budget funding most of the families can afford to pay the stay of their kids there (with the food price included).
According to the legislation children reach their full-age at 18 in Ukraine. Since this age they possess all civil rights: vote at elections, commit any transactions, contract marriage without parents’ permission. Juvenile labor is under legislation ban in Ukraine.
Ukraine companies have right to employ children 16-18 years old only if they provide him/her with such conditions as shortened working day and annual vacation longer than usual. Juvenile labor at hard, dangerous and harmful factories is banned. Employers breaking this norm are the subject to criminal responsibility.
