OSCE helps Ukraine to incorporate international mechanisms of human rights protection into education curriculum for judges

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.

The group will develop a one-day training programme, which will form part of a ten-day standard education course that newly-appointed judges of local courts of first instance and administrative courts will be completing  as an induction to their new professional capacity.    

The courses and programmes will be designed to incorporate new learning and teaching methodologies to ensure the most effective and sustainable judicial human rights education. It is also planned to be supplemented with online courses, combining texts with multimedia and videos.

This assistance is provided as part of a project aimed at increasing the protection of human rights of Ukrainian citizens in the courts.

The project is being implemented by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine upon the request of the National School of Judges of Ukraine together with the Supreme Court of Ukraine and the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine, with support from the Canadian Government.