Constitutional complaint: practical application and gender aspects

The event is organised to help the country’s civil society to better understand the practical aspects of use of constitutional complaint, as well as raise awareness of gender dimension of constitutional justice. It will be particularly useful for legal aid clinics and human rights NGOs, who can further use the gained knowledge to provide adequate assistance to members of vulnerable groups on effective access to a constitutional complaint.

The training will cover the following topics:

Part I. Social rights in constitutional complaint adjudication

• constitutional principles in constitutional complaints’ argumentation;
• due process of law and the practice of constitutional complaints consideration;
• formal requirements to constitutional complaints;
• compliance with the complaint’s content requirements: creating conditions for success;
• methodology of constitutional argumentation;
• sources of constitutional arguments: practical aspects in substantiating unconstitutionality of law;

Part II. Gender-sensitive constitutionalism 

• sex and constitution: gender and social revolutions
• value based vision of gender equality, its constitutional foundation, international standards and best practices;
• practical skills in identifying gender discrimination in legislation and in legal practice;
• legal argumentation to appeal discrimination in constitutional complaints;
• gender sensitivity in constitutional jurisprudence.

Certificates will be provided to participants who attended at least 90% of the training.

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports diversity and inclusiveness, and thus encourages interested women and men candidates from all national, religious, ethnic and social groups to participate in this training.

How to apply: To participate in the training, please register at the link: https://forms.gle/yDvzN41jbQHcbtdb8.

Deadline for applications: July 26, 2020

Contact information:  Should you have any questions, please contact us by sending an e-mail to Dmytro.Melnyk@osce.org.

The initiative is part of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine project "Support to Ukraine’s Human Rights Protection by Enhancing Accessibility of Constitutional Justice" implemented with the financial support of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.