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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 Third Steering Committee Meeting of the Joint Programme between the European Union and the Council of Europe “Strengthening the Implementation of the European Human Rights Standards in Ukraine

Third Steering Committee Meeting of the Joint Programme between the European Union and the Council of Europe “Strengthening the Implementation of the European Human Rights Standards in Ukraine

Achievements and challenges of 2016, as well as plan of actions of the Joint EU/CoE project “Strengthening Implementation of the European Human Rights Standards in Ukraine” for the current 2017 year under the components:  support to the police reform; strengthening the Ombudsperson’s Office operational capacities; and implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in the legal practice and activity of the legal professionals in Ukraine have been discussed with the key stakeholders at the 3d Project’s Steering Committee Meeting on 17 February 2017.

Project has equally concentrated its efforts both on supporting development/adaptation of legal framework to bring it closer to the European Human Rights standards so as on enhancement of operational capacities of the key state institutions involved into the human rights protection activity.

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SCM 17 February 2017
Kyiv, Ukraine 17 March 2017
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