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The €1.400 million Project is implemented in 2015-2016 under Programmatic Co-operation Framework between the European Union and the Council of Europe for the countries of Eastern Partnership: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.

Joint Programme between the EU and the CoE

The Project’s goal is to support the alignment of Human Rights policies and practices by ensuring compliance of legislative and regulatory frameworks with European standards and capacity-building activities for legal professionals and National Human Rights Institutions in Ukraine. The Project will cover the following directions:

a) Support to police reform and fight against ill-treatment and impunity

through provision of sufficient expertise to conduct police reform in line with European human rights standards and capacity-building activities to strengthen and implement tools of prevention and investigation ill-treatment cases;

b) Strengthening the Ombudsperson’s Office operational capacities in Ukraine (ill-treatment in places of deprivation of liberty, non-discrimination, data-protection)

through provision of expert support to the National Preventive Mechanism and raising public awareness of its capacities; provision of expertise and support to improve Ombudsperson’s Office staff knowledge on anti-discrimination and data protection standards, in order to further strengthen their ability to advocate cases of the indicated specifics;

c) Implementation of European Convention on Human Rights

through awareness raising activities on the ECHR standards and case-law of the European Court for 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).

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Project Coordinator in Strasbourg, Head of the Unit, Eastern Partnership:
Tigran Karapetyan
[email protected]
Tel: +33(0)390215930

 

Senior Project Officer:
Victoria Galperina
[email protected]
Tel: +38 044 3039914 (ext. 130)

 

Project Assistant:
Iryna Krutova
[email protected]
Tel: +38 044 3039914 (ext. 131)

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Back Continuation of the series of trainings “Identification and response to discrimination”

Continuation of the series of trainings “Identification and response to discrimination”

Uzhgorod, 19-20 April 2017

Dnipro, 17-18 May 2017

Council of Europe in the framework of the Joint EU/CoE Project “Strengthening Implementation of the European Human Rights Standards in Ukraine” continues fruitful cooperation with the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights strengthening its capacity in realization of non-discrimination advocacy and dissemination of information on non-discrimination issues.

Consequently, a series of trainings for public officials representing different state institutions and regions of Ukraine has been launched in 2017 to promote knowledge about non-discrimination issues and stimulate the discourse on equality, inequality and a need to achieve full equality in practice.

On 19-20 April 2017 the first training on non-discrimination was conducted in Uzhgorod with tailor-made sessions regarding the problems of this region. Aksana Filipishyna, Representative of the Commissioner, led a vivid discussion on a need to combat discrimination of Roma population in the region, including ensuring access to education and medical care. The positive feedback from the participants has proven the necessity of targeted capacity building activities, based on analysis of problems and needs of a specific group of professionals in different regions of Ukraine.

Another fruitful discussion was held during the training on non-discrimination in Dnipro on 17-18 May 2017. Participants have shown interest in antidiscrimination thematic highlighting an urgent need in combatting discrimination on the ground of age and eliminating discrimination in relation to children rights for education, which are spread in the region. The most part of the discussion on antidiscrimination legislation was supported by the role playing and ECHR case law related to noted cases on discrimination.

Trainings are organized as a part of activities planned jointly by the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights and the Joint EU/CoE Project “Strengthening Implementation of the European Human Rights Standards in Ukraine” within the plan of actions for 2017 with a next part of trainings on non-discrimination to be held in central regions of Ukraine in September-October 2017 and publication of Analytical research on international practices of antidiscrimination expertise of the legislative acts to be presented to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in October 2017.

Kyiv, Ukraine 07 August 2017
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