Events

Internally displaced persons and other local residents of Chernihiv region can receive grant support for the development of their own business

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), with financial support from the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, acting through the Department for International Development (DFID), is launching a project to support self-employment of internally displaced persons and local communities in Ukraine.

The project includes a two-day training on career guidance, self-employment or small entrepreneurship, provision…

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The Ombudsman appealed to the Prosecutor General to investigate the facts of violations of children’s rights at the Horodnyansk boarding school

The appeal states that during a monitoring visit to the Gorodnyansk comprehensive boarding school of grades I-III of the Chernihiv region, the actions of the institution’s officials revealed signs of an offense under Article 166 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (malicious failure to fulfill obligations to care for a child or a person in respect of whom guardianship or…

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Should displaced people pay for utilities in abandoned homes?

Given the situation that has developed in recent years in the east of our country, as well as numerous requests from citizens for legal advice on issues of payment for utility services in the ATO zone and in the temporarily occupied territory, lawyers from the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and the project “Legal Protection of…

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Legal aid providers and officials in Volyn improve their skills in protecting the rights of refugees and asylum seekers

On December 7-9, 2016, a series of trainings “International and National Standards for the Protection of the Rights of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Ukraine” were held in Lutsk for representatives of centers for the provision of free secondary legal aid, lawyers, and employees of the migration and border services of the Volyn region.

The trainers of the events were…

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The 13th International Traveling Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights DocudaysUA has started in Chernihiv region

Traditionally, in December, the 13th Traveling International Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights Docudays UA starts in Chernihiv Oblast, and its program this year offers films whose topics raise issues common to both Ukraine and the world.

This was announced by the organizers of the festival in Chernihiv and Chernihiv Oblast, representatives of the NGO “MART” and the Chernihiv Public…

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Docudays UA in Chernihiv region: a journey through illusions

On December 1, 2016, at 11:00, in the conference hall of the Ukraine Hotel (Chernihiv, Myru Ave., 33, 4th floor), a press briefing will be held dedicated to the opening of the 13th International Traveling Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA in the Chernihiv region. The festival will travel through the Chernihiv region from December 1 to 16, 2016.…

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Unemployed migrants are being taught to fight for their rights

Responding to the demand for free legal aid for this category of persons, a seminar was held on October 24, 2016 at the Chernihiv City Employment Center on the topic: “Protection of Labor, Social, and Housing Rights of Internally Displaced Persons.”

The Advisor to the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine on IDP Issues in Chernihiv Oblast,

Nadiya Edieva

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