OSCE Project Co-ordinator conducts seminars on international human rights law in Ukraine
A series of seminars for judges and lawyers on international human rights law in several regions of Ukraine, supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU), started on 7 July 2011 in Lutsk.
The two-day seminars focus on the application of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the implementation of Ukraine’s OSCE and international human rights commitments.
The seminars will provide methodological support for the proper implementation of international human rights commitments, in particular the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case law, and will help foster coherence of national jurisprudence.
Participants will focus on the role of ECtHR judgements in domestic adjudication, general principles of ECtHR case-law application, and its conceptual underpinning. Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Ukraine related to the application of the European Convention and ECtHR case law will also be discussed.
A second seminar will be held on 14-15 July in Zaporizhya.
The seminar series forms part of an OSCE PCU project to strengthen human rights and the rule of law in legislative and judicial practices in Ukraine.