Human Dignity as a Constitutional Value. Open Online Training on Practical and Gender Aspect of Constitutional Complaint

The training aims at raising awareness of civil society about access to the constitutional complaint and gender issues in constitutional jurisprudence. It will also be useful for legal aid clinics and human rights NGOs, who can further use the knowledge gained to protect rights of members of vulnerable groups.

The training will cover the following topics:

Part I. Human dignity and gender equality: constitutional metamorphoses

• Gender, dignity and the constitution: origin and meaning in modern constitutionalism
• Constitutional jurisprudence of human dignity and gender equality
• National and international legal climate for gender sensitivity and anti-discrimination
• Human dignity and gender equality in the structure of legal argumentation 

Part II. Human dignity as a paradigm of social rights

• Human dignity in the systematics of constitutional values: between mondialism and relativism, hierarchy and horizontal action
• Human dignity in focus: principles of interpretation and legal argumentation
• How to write constitutional complaints so that human dignity is respected?
• Health care rights in the focus of human dignity
• Human dignity concepts: issues of practical application in the argumentation of constitutional complaints
• The concept of human dignity in constitutional jurisprudence with regard to social rights
• Human dignity and protection of social rights via constitutional complaint mechanism: the right for social protection
• Human dignity and the protection of social rights via constitutional complaint mechanism: the right for an adequate standard of living

Training participants will obtain certificates in case they attend 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/g8C1q5j6Jue1aXjd6

Deadline for applications: November 05, 2020

Contact information

Should you have any questions, please contact us at: Dmytro.Melnyk@osce.org.

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