Article 6. The prohibition of discrimination

1. According to the Constitution of Ukraine, the generally recognized principles and norms of international law and international treaties of Ukraine everyone regardless of their certain features has equal rights and freedoms, and equal opportunities to implement them .

2. Forms of discrimination by state authorities, authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, local governments and their officials, entities of public and private law and individuals defined by the Article 5 of this Law shall be prohibited.

3. Actions do not constitute discrimination if they do not restrict the rights and freedoms of individuals, do not create obstacles for their exercise, and do not provide unfounded advantages to individual and/or a group of individuals based on certain features, towards whom positive actions are taken, such as:

Special protection on behalf of the state for specific groups (verbatim translation - “categories of people”) of people in need of such protection;

Measures aimed at preserving the identity of specific groups of people, if such measures are necessary;

Providing reliefs or compensations to specific groups of people in cases provided for by the law;

Establishing state social guarantees for specific groups of people;

Specific requirements to exercise certain human rights, as provided for by the law.

Article 7. Main directions of state policy to prevent and combat discrimination

1. State policy to prevent and combat discrimination aimed at the following:

Non-discrimination;

Affirmative action application;

Creating conditions to detect instances of discrimination and to ensure effective protection of individuals and/or a group of individuals who have been discriminated against;

Education and advocacy campaigns among the population of Ukraine on the matter of mutual respect regardless of people’s certain features, distribution of educational activities in this field.

Article 8. The conduct of the anti-discrimination expert analysis in the rulemaking

1. Drafting of legal acts shall be carried out in accordance with the principle of non-discrimination.

2. In order to discover the norms with the signs of discrimination in drafts of the legal acts, drafts of the legal acts are subjected to anti-discrimination expert analysis.

3. The result of anti-discrimination expert analysis of legal acts must be reviewed during the making of the decision to issue (adopt) the respective normative legal act.

4. Drafts of the Laws of Ukraine, acts of the President of Ukraine, and other legal acts made by the ministries and other central executive bodies, public collegial bodies, authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regional state administrations, Kyiv and Sevastopol city state administrations are subject to mandatory anti-discrimination expert analysis.

Section II. Mechanisms for ensuring Prevention and Combating Discrimination

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