Events

Lawyers of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights provide free legal support to internally displaced persons and victims of military operations in the Chernihiv region. As part of the project, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and victims are informed about their legal rights, legal remedies, and the availability of legal services.

Qualified lawyers provide comprehensive free legal…

Continuing our work with communities, on August 11, we visited the city of Nizhyn and held a working meeting with representatives of the Nizhyn City Center for Social Services.

Together with our colleagues, we discussed the needs of the local population, the possibilities of attracting resources from the region and international organizations.

Separately, we talked about the need to provide…

A family of displaced people – a son and a mother, who is a person with a disability of group II, were forced to leave their place of residence in Severodonetsk in April 2022 and urgently move to the village of Berestivka, Sumy region.

Their housing in the administrative center of Luhansk region was completely destroyed along with their property…

On December 23, representatives of the Main Police Department in Chernihiv Oblast, the Patrol Police Department, the Human Rights Department, the Regional Prosecutor’s Office, regional coordinators of the VRU Commissioner for Human Rights, and representatives of the public discussed problems with identifying and responding to cases of domestic violence and other challenges in the area of ​​human rights in the…

Representatives of courts, police, probation, free legal aid, territorial communities, experts and public activists from Odessa, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi and Kherson regions discussed on December 17, 2021 the experience and prospects of implementing people-centered (friendly) justice in communities.

The main conclusion of the discussion is that in territorial communities there is a certain imbalance in local government and justice sector reforms,…

On December 9, 2021, the training “Effective mechanism of interaction of subjects in the field of prevention and counteraction to domestic violence at the level of territorial communities” was held in Chernihiv.

The participants in the training were employees of local Centers of Social Services of the Chernihiv region.

The head of programs of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the…

Today, the legislation clearly defines the Procedure for interaction between entities implementing measures to prevent and combat domestic violence and gender-based violence. The main goal of this interaction is the effective implementation of the rights of a person affected by domestic violence. However, despite this, problems with domestic violence do not decrease at the level of the Chernihiv region.

That…