Poll: Most Ukrainians find out about their rights from TV and relatives

Poll: Most Ukrainians find out about their rights from TV and relatives

Ukrinform
The television, relatives and friends, Internet sites are the main sources of information about human rights for Ukrainians.

Chairwoman of the Human Rights Information Centre Tetiana Pechonchyk made public such results of the sociological research at the press conference, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"The poll results showed that people find out about their rights mostly from the programs on TV, Internet sites, relatives and friends. Only 15% of respondents say they learnt about their rights and methods of their protection at school and higher education institutions," she said.

Pechonchyk specified that respondents could choose several options. In particular, 75% of people called TV programs the source of information about human rights, 41% - relatives and friends, 30% - Internet sites, 26% - personal experience, 23% - newspapers.

The poll was conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation together with the Office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights with the support of the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine. A total of 2,002 citizens from all the regions of Ukraine took part in the survey, except for the residents of the occupied areas of Donbas and Crimea.

ol

While citing and using any materials on the Internet, links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory. In addition, citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and to the website of a foreign media outlet. Citing and using materials in offline media, mobile apps, Smart TV are allowed only with written permission from Ukrinform. News and publications marked as "Advertisement" and "PR" and articles in the section "Releases" include promoted content, and an advertiser is responsible for the content.

© 2015-2024 Ukrinform. All rights reserved.

Website design Studio Laconica

Extended searchHide extended search
By period:
-