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The month of September meant an intensive development of the Council of Europe’s Programme Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) in Ukraine.

On 13-15 September, a joint ToT for the HELP courses on Child Friendly Justice and Violence against Women was held in Kiev, in collaboration with the National School of Judges of Ukraine and the National Academy of Prosecution of Ukraine. The event, organised under an initiative of the Council of Europe project on Combating violence against women and children in Ukraine, reunited members of the judiciary and the prosecutorial service as well as lawyers interested in and knowledgeable on the topics of VAW and CFJ with the aim to create a pool of certified HELP trainers able to tutor the two online courses to be launched in Ukraine by the end of the year. 

The course on Violence Against Women has been developed jointly by the HELP Programme and the Human Dignity and Gender Equality Department, Violence Against Women Division of the Council of Europe while the course on Child Friendly Justice was a joint initiative of the HELP Programme and the Children’s Rights Division of the Council of Europe.

Ukraine will be the first country to adapt the HELP courses on Child-Friendly Justice and Violence against Women and Domestic Violence thus leading the way for other countries to follow.

A second ToT, held in Odesa on 25-28 September, reunited a group of 26 lawyers, representatives of the National Academy of Interior and the National Prosecutors Academy of Ukraine in a 4-day event rich in content, methodology and technical training. The activity was organised under the joint EU/Council of Europe project on Strengthening the implementation of European Human Rights Standards in Ukraine.

The HELP training on technical aspects and methodology for education of legal professionals was complemented by thematic presentations on discrimination in the light of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Sessions were led by European experts in the field, who provided presentations on recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on discrimination and best practices of non-discrimination advocacy, including case studies and a moot court exercise.

The participants who have taken part in these training sessions and completed their assignment will become HELP certified trainers, allowing them to use the resources and the platform for tutoring HELP courses. They will be added to the pool of HELP certified trainers, publicly available on the HELP platform. The two ToT sessions come to consolidate a rich network of HELP certified trainers in Ukraine and thus contribute to the enhancement of the HELP Programme and the use of HELP courses at national level for the training of Ukrainian legal professionals.

Kiev 16 October 2017
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