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OSCE Project Co-ordinator offers online training to election commissioners in preparation for local vote
Publishing date: 27 August 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Elections
As Ukraine prepares for local elections scheduled for 25 October this year, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator started to upload materials on the online system Vyborkom to provide training opportunities for people administering electoral process at various levels...
Ukraine introduces new Master of Law educational standard, developed with OSCE support
Publishing date: 21 August 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: Troika, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Education
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has approved new requirements for a Master’s degree programme in law, developed with the assistance of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. The order issued by the Ministry, on 17 August 2020, (link) enacts the use of the Standard of Higher Education for speciality no. 081 “Law” at Master’s degree level, making it applicable starting from the 2020/2021 academic year...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and partners campaign to raise awareness about human trafficking risks
Publishing date: 30 July 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
To mark the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on 30 July 2020, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine together with Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, the International Organisation for Migration’s Mission in Ukraine and the NGO A21 organized an open-air exhibition entitled “Expectations vs Reality” in Kyiv...
OSCE-supported report on civil society monitoring of children’s rights protection presented in Kyiv
Publishing date: 1 June 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights
A vast majority of Ukrainian civil and administrative court cases concerning the interests of a minor are being examined without involving the minor in question. This is one of the key findings of monitoring and research conducted by civil society on the initiative of Ukraine’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. The research was supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator supported Ukraine in its response to COVID-19
Publishing date: 30 April 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
In view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator provided assistance to Ukraine with a number of activities including handover of personal protective equipment (PPE) and awareness-raising.
OSCE SMM Chief Monitor Çevik and OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Villadsen reiterate need for mine action in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 4 April 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed), OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 4 April 2020 – As the world marks the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, Yaşar Halit Çevik, and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Henrik Villadsen, reiterated the importance and urgency of conducting mine action in eastern Ukraine.
OSCE promotes active role of Ukraine’s law enforcers in supporting women who have experienced violence
Publishing date: 6 March 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Gender equality
Ahead of International Women’s Day, the OSCE will have dispatched two-thousand posters highlighting the need to stop violence against women to police stations all over Ukraine by 6 March 2020. The posters stress the important role that the police play in supporting and protecting women who have experienced violence. The posters were produced as part of the “End the Silence” awareness-raising campaign which was implemented by the OSCE Secretariat’s Gender Section and supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the country’s National Police.