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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
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Tel: +33(0)390215930

 

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

 

Project Assistant:
Iryna Krutova
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Tel: +38 044 3039914 (ext. 131)

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Back Improving situation with the prevention of ill-treatment cases in the police activities

Improving situation with the prevention of ill-treatment cases in the police activities

Kyiv, 23 June 2017

Supporting the National police of Ukraine in implementation of the reform with an emphasis made on principles of rule of law and respect for human rights and freedoms, the Joint EU/CoE Project “Strengthening Implementation of the European Human Rights Standards in Ukraine” is providing technical assistance via different human rights trainings specifically focusing on prevention of torture and ill-treatment in police activities.

The recent report of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on its November 2016 visit to Ukraine, published on 09 June 2017, expresses serious concern about the frequency of allegations of ill-treatment by police officers. The results of the report stipulated the Project to organise on 23 June 2017 in the aftermath a round table on standards of ill-treatment prevention for the staff of the Human Rights Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine (NPU) to discuss various aspects of the application of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as regards prohibition of torture.

For this reason Dmytro Tretyakov, lawyer of the Registry of the European Court for Human Rights was invited to provide an overview of the general principles of Article 3 of the ECHR, key issues which are usually examined by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the cases under Article 3 in relation to the police activities and to present a review of the recent judgments of the ECtHR that demonstrate the application of Article 3 and important developments in its use. Latest tendencies in the ECtHR case-law and procedures in general were also discussed.

Series of similar seminars and trainings on a specific for police activity topics are planned to be carried out for the staff members of the Human Rights Directorate of the NPU as well as academicians of the National Academy of Internal Affairs to spread as more as possible the information on crucial aspects of human rights protection and promotion of a policy of “zero tolerance” to ill-treatment among the police officers.

Kyiv, Ukraine 08 August 2017
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