The Verkhovna Rada has adopted at first reading a bill introducing amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine on preventing and combating discrimination.
A total of 234 MPs out of the 294 registered in the session hall voted for the bill on Tuesday.
According to an explanatory note to the bill, it was drafted to
implement an action plan on visa liberalization between Ukraine and the
EU.
The bill takes into account international standards and
recommendations in the sphere of protecting human rights and freedoms,
as well as remarks to the Ukrainian law on the principles of preventing
and countering discrimination in Ukraine that were made by international
experts.
In particular, the bill proposes introducing respective amendments to
the laws of Ukraine on the principles of preventing and combating
discrimination in Ukraine, on ensuring equal rights and opportunities
for women and men, and to in the Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine.
The draft law proposes updating the terminology of the Ukrainian law
on the principles of preventing and combating discrimination in Ukraine,
in particular, supplementing this law with the definition of such terms
as aiding in discrimination and the stated intention of discrimination,
as well as stating in the new wording the definition of such terms as
discrimination and indirect discrimination.
