Thirty years ago, on December 10, 1989, nearly 10,000 people gathered for a commemoration of International Human Rights Day in Lviv to mark the first ever officially sanctioned meeting of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UHU).
Led by Lviv UHU Vice-President Volodymyr Yavorsky, the meeting was addressed by a number of speakers, representing mostly informal public organizations, including Rukh (the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova), the Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Association of Independent Ukrainian Youth as well as a Georgia unofficial group.