Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
FoundedNovember 1992
Location
  • Kharkiv, Ukraine
Area served
Ukraine
Key people
Yevgen Zakharov and Irina Rapp
Websitekhpg.org

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG) is one of the oldest and most active Ukrainian human rights organizations. As a legal entity, it was established in 1992, but it has been working as a human rights protection group in the Ukrainian SSR since 1988 under the Society "Memorial". It was the first official human rights organization in the former USSR. Many members of the organization took part in a human rights movement of the 1960s – 1980s.