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Legal aid for active individuals can really make a change in the society
 Digest Legal Space #47 (April 2017)
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The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine will hold a competition for the position of Director of the Coordinating center for legal aid providing. This was announced on April 24 by the Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko during a briefing at the Ukrainian crisis media center, said in the press center of the Coordinating center for legal aid providing.
Ukrainian CSOs will direct their efforts to reduce the financial barriers to filing lawsuits in cases of access to public information.
On March 31 Roma Youth Forum was launched in Kyiv. It will last three days. The first day was a meeting and determining priorities for future work.
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Legal aid in communities and to communities
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In February, the center to provide free primary legal aid started its work at a joint initiative of Kherson city government and IRC "Legal Space".
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Residents of the village of Fedorivka (Bilozerka district) appeared in a difficult situation. People were left without water for consecutive days as the water supply was blocked, allegedly because of the accident and debts. Human rights defenders, who came to Fedorivka for the field legal advice, found that the organization that provides water supply services improperly keeps records and contracts with consumers. Now the company will be revised and residents will restore the water supply.
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What is community policing? What are forms of interaction between police and community? How effective are they and how to implement them? These and other questions were included into the agenda of the training "Community policing: partnership between police and community", held on April 18 in Bila Tserkva office of the Legal Development Network.
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Success stories
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The woman lawyer who took the money from the disabled retiree, but did not provide the service. The lawyer did not want to repay the money. However, due to the lawyers of Kovel office of the Legal Development Network, she will be collected the necessary sum. The strategic case lasted more than six months and ended with the victory of the retiree in court.
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A resident of Kharkiv had no opportunity to provide her daughter with education independently and the girl's father did not support her financially. Lawyers of Dvorichna Office of the Legal Development Network helped the woman defend the girl's right to child support from the father after the age of majority in court.
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In the beginning of 2013 a resident of Bila Tserkva sold her house in the village. The customer immediately paid part of the money and promised to return the rest later. The agreement was confirmed by a receipt. However, three years passed and the debtor never gave the money. Maria* supported by a lawyer Bila Tserkva office of the Legal Development Network went to court, which ruled in her favor. However, she faced with the inaction of the state executor. The woman again had to go to the Office and ask for help from human rights defenders.
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Empowering Roma communities
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Human rights activists declared that the investigation on the arson of spontaneous settlements in Kyiv is not happening. The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said that law enforcement officers are waiting on a statement about the crime.
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On International Roma Day, April 8, an interethnic festive flashmob was held in Kharkiv for the first time. The surprise for holiday guests was a concert with the participation of Roma and Ukrainian artists, as well as performance of the Anthem of Ukraine in Romani and Ukrainian.
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Roma from the village of Korsuntsi, Odesa region, are threatened by cutting off water. The Vodokanal (the water supplier) motivated this decision by a statement that people do not want to install water meters at their own expense. The lawyers of Roma human rights centerpointed out the illegality of such threats and solved the situation in the legal field.
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Lawyer Consultation
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Kovel office of the Legal Development Network is often visited by elderly people who inherited houses without legal documents. Often these are pensioners who live in other districts of Volyn region. Lawyers of the Office explain in detail what to do in such situations and where to go. Based on their advice, we have identified 10 key steps that need to be done by heirs to submit the documents for the house and title.
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Looking for a better life and better earnings Ukrainians go abroad. However, not always meeting the desired conditions of labour and payment. Often people without bothering about their safety in advance become victims of human trafficking. In recent years, a number of complaints of labour exploitation abroad has increased. More than 80 Ukrainians suffered in labor slavery associated with the production and transportation of drugs in Russia.
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Legal aid to the IDPs
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In addition to IDPs, who fleeing from the consequences of conflict were forced to leave their native towns and villages, there are people, who moved within their home locality, in Ukraine. For example, a building was hit by a shell, so people moved in with relatives or friends. Human rights activists call this category of people affected by the conflict “displaced”, according to Right to Protection.
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Legal aid to the army
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Even leading lawyers saw no positive prospects in this case. But a unique example of our protagonist proves that integrity and professionalism overcome barriers of bureaucracy. His story is a model for many soldiers who got the disease in ATO zone, but failed to get documentary evidence of this fact from the military-medical Commission and state financial assistance for treatment.
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© 2013 Digest prepared by Informational resource center “Legal Space” with the support of “Human rights and justice programme initiative (International Renaissance Foundation) and Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Re-printing and publication of materials are permitted with reference to the “Legal Space” web-portal.
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