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Legal aid for active individuals can really make a change in the society
Digest Legal Space #44 (January 2017)
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Ukrainian children got the opportunity to send to the UN Committee on the rights of the child complaints of grave or systematic violations by a state of rights under the Convention on the rights of the child or the optional protocols thereto, if the national protection have been exhausted, according to LEAGUE LAW.
The lawyer, head of the Roma Human Rights Center Volodymyr Kondur told about the first victory in the criminal case on antiRoma pogroms in the village of Loshchynivka, Odesa region, on 18 January 2016. The court reversed the decision of the investigator of Prosecutor's office on non-recognition of the Roma as victims.
On January 3, 2017 Petro Poroshenko signed Law of Ukraine "On High Council of Justice" according to official Internet representation of the President of Ukraine. This document, in particular, changes in the Law of Ukraine "On free legal aid" in terms of expanding the circle of persons entitled to free secondary legal aid. On 4 January Voice of Ukraine published the Law of Ukraine "On High Council of Justice", therefore these changes take effect from 5 January 2017.
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Legal aid in communities and to communities
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Continuing the practice of community policing, on January 6, 2017 in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi a regular joint advanced reception of citizens was held, in which the head of Kamyanets-Podilskyi Police Department Borys Sushytskyi and his deputies, the head of the Investigation Department Volodymyr Neguliaev, chief inspectors Valeryi Fridrich, Serhyi Prybaten, as well as the lawyer of Kamianets-Podilskyi office of the Legal Development Network Maksym Romaniuk participated.
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Success stories
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Lawyers of Kovel Office of Legal Development Network help the pensioner pursue justice for the years of problems, which the woman suffered through the fault of two municipal agencies. The first victory is a moral compensation in the amount of 7 thousand UAH.
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The deceived inhabitant of the Carpathian region managed to recover the funds he had paid the fraudulent organization allegedly for the purchase of a tractor on credit only in the court.
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Within 5 years the specialists of Chuhuiv human rights group provided legal aid to a man of venerable age, who fought for his right to preferential pension.
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Empowering Roma communities
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On December 17, 2016 the delegation of human rights defenders visited the city of Zmiyiv and Shelud'kivka village, Kharkiv region. The visit was planned and focused on the detailed study of the situation around one of the Roma families, which the local residents threatened with eviction
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The staff of the Center for legal aid to Roma*, which operates in Pervomaisk Charity Fund "Nivo Drom" helped the family with many children obtain a birth certificate of a little boy, to make the adoption process by his father and undergo treatment.
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Mediation or non-judicial dispute resolution
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OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine will present the first in the state public online course "How to effectively plan and conduct a dialogue". A course is developed with the support of donor governments of the project "Dialogue for reforms and social cohesion in Ukraine".
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Kovel students received the necessary knowledge and motivation to resolve conflicts between students in a nonviolent way and improve the atmosphere in schools in the framework of the training "School Agreement Service". Participants received basic skills of mediation and prepared to resolve disputes in an academic environment.
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Disputes over land boundaries between neighbours are one of the most difficult to resolve, because the parties to the conflict primarily are guided by emotions. Therefore, in resolving such situations lawyers of Legal Development Network prefer tre-trial method - mediation.
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Legal aid to the army and IDPs
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Payment of cost of training for the ATO participants is carried out according to the Program 2505170 "Activities for social and professional adaptation of the participants of the antiterrorist operation (except for the military men transferred to the reserve or resignation)" and the order of use of funds is envisaged in the state budget for implementation of measures for social and professional adaptation of the participants of the antiterrorist operation (except for the military men transferred to the reserve or resignation), the approved resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from 31.03.2015, No. 179.
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On January 25, 2017 in Bila Tserkva a training for employees of local centers providing free secondary legal aid and Legal Aid Bureau office in Kyiv region on the theme: "Providing legal aid to ATO participants and their families: current issues, problems and ways of their solution" was held.
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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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