Project objective is to support the alignment of Human Rights policies and practices by ensuring the compliance of the legislative and regulatory framework with the European standards and capacity-building for legal professionals and National Human Rights Institutions in Ukraine.

The Project will focus on three main pillars:

• Support to the law-enforcement reform, namely establishment of the State Bureau of Inestigation (SBI) through provision of sufficient legal and technical expertise to adhere the operational work of the institution to the European Human Rights standards as well as to strengthen and implement tools for prevention and effective investigation of ill-treatment cases
• Strengthening Ombudsperson’s Office operational capacities through proision of expert support in further development of the National Preventive Mechanism and data protection advocacy
• Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights through capacity building and awareness raising activities on ECHR and case law of the European Court of Human Rights for different groups of legal professionals with extensive use of tools and materials of the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals – the HELP Programme.

• The State Bureau of Inestigation is established and operates in line with the European standards and best practices
• National capacities to effectiely protect against serious human rights violations, investigate and bring perpetrators to justice are strengthened with a relevant rehabilitation services provided to the victims of torture
• Data protection legal framework and practice is in line with the European standards.
• Ukrainian legal professionals (judges, lawyers, prosecutors, and SBI investigators and police officers) have stronger capacity to deliver effective, qualitative and gender-sensitive justice functions that are served in an equitable and coherent manner based on common understanding of national law and European standards

• Parliament of Ukraine
• Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
• Ministry of Interior of Ukraine
• National Police of Ukraine
• State Bureau of Investigation
• Ministry of Health of Ukraine
• National School of Judges of Ukraine
• National Academy of Prosecutors of Ukraine
• Ukrainian National Bar Association