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OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Launches the Parliament–Civil Society Platform
Publishing date: 9 July 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law
KYIV, 9 July 2015 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) facilitated today the launch of the Parliament-Civil Society Platform – a forum for an inclusive national dialogue, public debate, and dissemination of information on Ukraine’s reform agenda...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator and Ukraine Parliament Committee on Judicial Policy and Justice agree to co-operate on legislation in justice and elections
Publishing date: 22 May 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law
Kyiv, 21 May 2015- OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Vaidotas Verba and Ruslan Kniazevych on behalf of Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Judicial Policy and Justice, signed a memorandum of co-operation on 21 May 2015. The document provides for the development and joint implementation of projects that would help parliamentarians draft and adopt laws, strengthening the rule of law in Ukraine.
OSCE supports discussions on the case-law of European Court of Human Rights among Ukrainian legal professionals
Publishing date: 24 November 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
More than a hundred legal professionals gathered in Lviv to participate in the International Forum on the application of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, organized jointly by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the law faculty of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv...
OSCE helps Ukrainian legal professionals to better protect human rights in times of crisis
Publishing date: 3 November 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
KYIV, 3 November 2014– Ukrainian legal professionals attended the first in a series of training courses, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, aimed to broaden their knowledge on international standards of human rights protection in crisis situations today in Kyiv...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator, Canada launch multi-year project to help Ukraine improve protection of human rights by courts
Publishing date: 16 September 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
KYIV, 16 September 2014 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the Government of Canada officially launched a € 2.2 million, four years project, which aims to enhance the functioning of the Ukrainian judiciary in line with international standards of human rights protection...
OSCE helps Ukraine to incorporate international mechanisms of human rights protection into education curriculum for judges
Publishing date: 4 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
A working group of professional legal trainers gathered on 3 September 2014 in Tatariv, in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region, to begin developing a national standard for judicial education on how to apply the European Convention on Human Rights and case-law of the Strasbourg Court in national legal practice...
OSCE-supported summer schools help Ukrainian judges improve knowledge of international mechanisms to protect human rights
Publishing date: 29 August 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
More than 60 judges of local and administrative courts, and legal professionals from across the country attended two summer schools held by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine during July and August 2014 on applying the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and case-law of the European Court (ECtHR) to uphold the rule of law and strengthening the protection of human rights...