Hanna Sokolova

Hanna Sokolova is an Ukrainian freelance journalist working on human rights. She has previously worked for MediaPort news agency, as well as Ukrainska Pravda, Current Time, Focus and Left Bank.

Quiet amnesty: why Ukraine needs real war crime legislation

Nearly seven years after the start of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, we speak to one of the human rights activists calling for new legislation on war crimes.

By Hanna Sokolova

/ 4 Jan 2021

Quiet amnesty: why Ukraine needs real war crime legislation

“Be like Nina”: how a Ukrainian nurse organised a protest movement

Low wages, stressful conditions and little hope in the future of Ukraine’s healthcare system – this is what Nina Kozlovska, a nurse at a Kyiv regional hospital, is campaigning against.

By Hanna Sokolova

/ 15 Dec 2020

“Be like Nina”: how a Ukrainian nurse organised a protest movement

How Ukraine’s gender quotas work in practice

In a political culture associated with sexism, Ukraine’s gender quotas for political participation often come up against insider manoeuvring and bureaucratic indifference.

By Hanna Sokolova

/ 25 Nov 2020

How Ukraine’s gender quotas work in practice

How the pandemic has changed the lives of homeless people in Ukraine

Since the start of COVID-19, homeless people’s access to food, healthcare, temporary housing and medical needs has become more limited

By Hanna Sokolova and Pavlo Stekh

/ 21 Sep 2020

How the pandemic has changed the lives of homeless people in Ukraine

Being Trans in Ukraine

The processes for gender transition and sexual reassignment in Ukraine may have been simplified, but transgender people still lack their full rights.

By Hanna Sokolova

/ 8 Nov 2019

“A strike isn’t a goal in itself”: defending labour rights in Ukraine’s gig economy

Recent signs of mobilisation by precarious workers in Ukraine have refocused public attention on labour rights. But with prevailing public conditions opposing worker mobilisation, how far will this movement go?

By Hanna Sokolova

/ 26 Sep 2019

“A strike isn’t a goal in itself”: defending labour rights in Ukraine’s gig economy

“When we compromise, it’s as if we admit we’re not equal”: Anna Sharyhina on feminism and LGBT rights in Ukraine

One of the founders of the feminist and LGBT movement in Kharkiv, Ukraine speaks on violence, tolerance and the struggle for equal rights.

By Hanna Sokolova

/ 22 May 2019

“When we compromise, it’s as if we admit we’re not equal”: Anna Sharyhina on feminism and LGBT rights in Ukraine

Fighting for a thousand euros in Ukraine’s metal industry

Workers at metallurgical and mining companies in Kryvyi Rih, one of Ukraine’s largest industrial cities, have been holding mass protests since 2017.

By Hanna Sokolova

/ 16 May 2019

Fighting for a thousand euros in Ukraine’s metal industry

In Ukraine’s Donbas, mines are facing flooding — and environmental disaster

In Ukraine’s once proud mining region of Donbas, war, mismanagement and a stretched economy are combining to create an environmental catastrophe in the coal mining industry.

By Hanna Sokolova

/ 12 Mar 2019

In Ukraine’s Donbas, mines are facing flooding — and environmental disaster

Temporarily displaced pensions: how pensioners in Ukraine’s occupied territories survive against all odds

The Ukrainian state still lacks a mechanism for paying pensions to citizens who live in occupied terroritories. RU

By Hanna Sokolova

/ 24 Jul 2018