Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) has been registered as a legal entity since Nov. 10, 1992, although it had existed as the human rights protection wing of the Kharkiv office of ‘Memorial’ from 1988, and some members of the group had been active in the human rights movement from the 1960s through to the 1980s.
In 1998 the Group received the EU/USA ‘Award for Democracy and Civil Society’.
At the present time, the organization has more than fifty members – journalists, historians, linguists, lawyers, mathematicians, physicists, programmers, teachers, engineers, students.
