The new project that will be implemented by several partner NGOs aims to enable ATO combatants and their families to learn how to defend their rights independently and address psychological problems. The project will also contribute to the effective integration of servicemen at the community level.
Lawyers of NGO "Skadovshchyna is my native land" help a resident of Kherson oblast obtain a passport of a citizen of Ukraine. A young woman has lived withoutidentity documentsfor 23 years. The article also provides the main legal points for registering the birth of a child and establishing the fact of birth through the court.
In the School of Roma Activist, which will be held in Lviv in the fall of 2017, young Roma activists will receive practical skills and knowledge that will enable them to rally the team and implement initiatives that address Roma issues throughout Ukraine. The best participants in the School will be able to join the organization and holding the Roma Youth Forum 2018.
The situation that occurred in July in the village of Korsuntsi, Odesa oblast, had the risks of becoming a conflict on a multiethnic basis, such as last year's in Loshchynivka. Employees of Human Rights Roma Center went to the scene and managed to reconcile the parties.
People of different nationalities of different ages and professions came to the International Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day on August 2 to commemorate the Roma who were tortured in the beginning of the Second World War. The musical poetic composition "Babi Yar. Let's live, Roma!” was presented by Roma Academic Music and Drama Theater "Romance".
On June 9, representatives of the Board, expert councils of program initiatives and regional representations of International Renaissance Foundation, together with the heads of program initiatives and the Foundation Administration, held a strategic planning meeting.
From July 17, the second series of the educational video "Lessons of the Romani Language" is in public access. This is the second thematic cartoon, created by a team from Lviv led by a young Roma activist Oleksandr Grygorychenko. Legal Space waited for the premiere on YouTube and introduces viewers to the new animated video.
An annual conference of scholars and graduates of the program "Jurisprudence and Humanities" of the Roma Educational Fund took place in Kyiv on July 10 and 11. This year it gathered more than 50 scholars from Ukraine, Moldova and Russia.
Representatives of Legal Development Network offices that work with civil society organizations travel to other countries in order to take advantage of the positive experience of work of foreign NGOs and implement it on the territory of our state. Activists are getting acquainted with the results of reforms that are being implemented in other countries. Thus, guests from Ukraine have already had time to visit Denmark, Poland, Sweden. And recently they returned from Georgia, where they studied at the International School of Municipal Policy in Tbilisi, organized by the International Center for Municipal Democracy in partnership with the Legal Development Network with the support of International Renaissance Foundation.
The tragedy in the village of Vilshany of the Kharkiv region, where the Roma were killed, gave rise to a press briefing on May 26 at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center. Human rights activists and a representative of the Ombudsman talk about the systematic manifestations of xenophobia, the inaction of the authorities and urge the National Police to investigate hate crimes.
