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April – June 2015

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News bulletinof the Association of Ukrainian Human Rights

Monitors on Law Enforcement

Civil campaigns

A traditional campaign of the Asso-ciation UMDPL “Police under Control” has started

Awareness raising activity

On 6 April 2015 the Association UMDPL started a traditional monitoring campaign “Police under Control”. The first

stage of the campaign – monitoring of district inspectors activity.

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Reform of law enforcement authorities

Expert of the Association UMDPL Mary-na Tsapok about reforming of law enforce-ment authorities (VIDEO)

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A price of the unreformed prosecution authorities. Will we pay?

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Maryna Tsapok: How to replace cor-rupted prosecutors and provide for the in-dependent prosecution authorities?

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“Law enforcement authorities have to serve”, - expert of the Association UMDPL about the future of police.

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Police reform is imperfect and will keep corruption. Human rights defeders demand changes to the draft laws.

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A special training was held for the NPM monitors on conducting visits to MIA and the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine

On 29-31 May 2015 in Kyiv the As-sociation UMDPLheld a special training

Specialized trainingfor NPM monitors

“Monitoring places of detention of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine”. During the training its participants who had already taken part in monitoring vis-

its within the framework of the national preventive mechanism, improved the knowledge of peculiarities of monitoring these intstitutions.

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Awareness raising activity

Association UMDPL continues sharing knowledge with youth on cooperation with police

On 26 April 2015 in Kyiv a training was held for youth in the course of which its participants were taught how to behave themselves and talk with po-lice during peaceful demonstrations. The main task was to make participants perceive policemen not as a threat but as a customer service which helps in conducting peaceful demonstrations.

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A training “Rules on how to speak with police” – in your city!

During June 2015 the youth of Zhytomir, Vy-shgorod, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa and Kyiv al-ready attended the training “Rules on how to speak with police”. Participants if they wished could visit the local district police station with an excursion.

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A training was held on the topic of observance of the right to access public information

On 27-28 June 2015 in Odessa a first training was held on the topic “Public monitoring of ob-servance of a right to access public information in the activity of law enforcement authorities”. It was organized by the Association UMDPL in co-operation with the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights.

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Association UMDPL continues organiz-ing master-classes “You and Police”

Within the project “Strengthening the possibilities of youth to stay protected from law enforcement authorities arbi-trariness”, that is being realized with the financial support of the Charles Stewart

New people among monitors

On 5-7 June 2015 in Kyiv the Association UMDPL held a specialized training “Public monitoring of the activity of internal affairs officers of Ukraine”. Training was filled with both theoretical aspects of activity of internal affairs authorities and with practical knowledge which helped to effectively make use of the achieved knowledge and skills. Besides that, participants of the event learned the achieved experience of monitoring internal affairs authorities, results of such campaigns and problems that happened in practice.

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Mott Foundation, the Association UMDPL conducts master-classes “You and Police”.

In the second quarter of 2015 such events were conducted for pupils of fresh-men and senior classes of the Mykolaiv HS №5, as well as in the Mykolaiv secondary schools №3 and №51. In the course of the

event participants could discuss the issues of relations of population and police, how one should speak with a police officer, what are the legal guarantees that start acting when a persons gets under influ-ence of a police officer etc.

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Master-classes “You and Police” for pupils of Mykolaiv

New monitors of the activity of internal affairs

officers of Ukraine

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Cooperation with the Ombudsman

Officials of the Department for the realization of the national preventive mechanism of the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights together with the representatives of the Association UM-DPL conducted inspections of human rights observance in such institutions:

Association UMDPL continues the realiza-tion of the project on investigations of viola-tions of the rights of vulnerable groups of pop-ulation

In 2015 the Association UMDPL with the support of the International Renais-sance Foundation continues the realization of the started in 2013 project “Improve-ment and Further Implementation of the Mechanisms of Public Investigations of Vio-lations of Rights of Drug Users, Participants of the Substitution Therapy Programs in Cooperation with the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights”. Within the framewrok of the mentioned project a number of events were conducted for the activists and experts, who will further be taking part in civil investigations of vio-lations of the rights of vulnerable groups (drug-dependent persons and sex workers) by law enforcement authorities, to receive necessary knowledge.

From the beginning of the year rep-resentatives of the civil society upon the materials of civil investigations in coop-eration with the Ombudsman inspected the state of observance of rights of per-sons sick of drug-dependency in the ac-tivity of law enforcement authorities in Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Sumy and Kherson regions. Read more

From 24 to 27 February a visit was con-ducted to the Dnipropetrovsk region. Read more

From 7 to 9 April 2015 an inspection was conducted in Fastiv of the Kyiv region. Read more

From 27 to 29 April 2015 conducted was a visit to the city of Odessa with the aim to learn the state of observance of the rights of drug-dependent persons and sex workers in the activity of law enforcement authorities in Odessa region. Read more

On 16 June 2015 such a visit was con-ducted to the city of Sumy. Read more

From 11 to 13 May 2015 a visit was conducted to the Mykolaiv region. Read more

From 16 to 18 June 2015 an inspec-tion of observance of rights of the sub-stitution therapy patients in the activ-ity of law enforcement authorities in Kherson region was conducted. Read more

• Dniprovskiy Regional Department of DGMIA of Ukraine in Kyiv. Read more

• Fastiv city police unit of DGMIA of Ukraine in the Kyiv re-gion. Read more

• authorities and special institutions of the Department of MIA of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk region: temporary holding facility, Kolomiusk city unit and Tismenitsk district police unit of the Department of MIA of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk re-gion, the state of special trucks for transporting detainees and the special room for treatment of detained and arrested persons in the Kolomiusk central district hospital. Read more

• authorities and special institutions of the Mariupol city de-partment of the DGMIA of Ukraine in Donetsk region, namely the temporary holding facility and the Zhovtneviy district police unit of the Mariupol city department of DGMIA of Ukraine in Donetsk region. Read more

• Mariupol penitentiary center (№138) and the Priazov peni-tentiary colony №107. Read more

• Kriviy Rih penitentiary colony № 80 Read more

Civil and parliamentary investigation in Sumy region

NPM monitors in Ivano-Frankivsk region

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Regional coordinators of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights

Regional coordinators of the Ombudsman were taught to prevent and combat dicrimination

On 30-31 March and 28-29 April 2015 trainings were held on the topic of European standards in the sphere of prevention and com-bating discrimination for regional representatives and coordinators of the Ukrainian Parliament Com-missioner for Human Rights.

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Kharkiv

Regional coordinator on public rela-tions of the Ukrainian Parliament Com-missioner for Human Rights in Kharkiv region Yuriy Chumak:

• became a member of clusters on edu-cation and child protection. Read more

• acted as a “live book” during the Docudays UA. Read more

• held a reception of military service-men on legal issues and gave booklets with legal information, as well as pre-sented the stand with the legal informa-tion to military servicemen. Read more

• visited a seminar-meeting with vil-lage councils, village chairmen, secretar-ies of local councils, leaders of communal enterprises, institutions and establish-ments of the district. Read more

With the support of the United Nations Development Program the Association UMDPL introduces the network of regional coordinators on public relations of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights fulfill-ing a range of tasks: monitoring visits to places of detention, inspection and reaction on certain facts of human rights violations, consulting citizens, establishing the cooperation with civil sector etc.

• took part in the meeting of the Kharkiv regional headquarters on IDPs from the Anti-terrorist operation zone. Read more

• took part in the presentation of ad-vocacy campaign “Initiative 11” aimed at strengthening the protection of those opening the socially important informa-tion in Ukraine. Read more

• conducted a reception on legal issues for persons registered in the criminal ex-ecutive inspection. Read more

• during the meeting of the Department of Health Care of Kharkiv Regional State Ad-ministration with the chief physicians of dis-trict hospitals of Kharkiv region presented the

“Booklet on receiving medical treatment by IDPs residing in the Kharkiv region”. Read more

• conducted a meeting with local civil activists. Read more

• conducted a visit to the 3046 Central base of engineer ammunition of the Di-rectorate General of the Operative Pro-vision of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during which he held legal consultations for the participants of the Anti-terrorist operation zone. Read more

• took part in the informational and advocacy meeting on the rights of vul-nerable groups of convicted and freed persons. Read more

• conducted a monitoring visit to the Interregional multidisciplinary hospi-tal under Temnivsk penitentiary colony (№100) of the department of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region. Read more

Cherkassy

Regional coordinator of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in Cherkassy region Volodymir Batchaev:

• appealed to prosecutor’s office and initited addiitonal inspection upon facts of illegal actions of law enforcement officers after which the prosecutor’s office opened criminal proceedings upon facts of abuse of authority by a police officer. Read more

• at the collegium of the Department of MIA of Ukraine in Cherkassy region wanted the chiefs of the city district units to raise the quality of control over the ob-servance of the rights of citizens by their subordinates. Read more

• took part in the discussion of prob-lems of reforming police. Read more

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• as a participant of NPM monitor-ing group visited Kamiansk District Po-lice Unit of the Department of MIA in Cherkassy region and the temporary holding facility of the mentioned unit. Read more

Rivne

Regional coordinator on public re-lation of the Secretariat of the Ukrain-ian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in Rivne region Vyacheslav Svirets:

• visited the health care and social protection of population establishments. Read more

• gave a speech during the training for law enforcement officers on questioning of kids who became victims or witnesses of violence as well as conducted violence. Read more

Regional coordinators of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights

Poltava

Coordinator on public relation of the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in Pol-tava region Vira Yakovenko:

• conducted a planned visit to the Komsomol penitentiary center № 136 in Poltava region for detention of men convicted to imprisonment. Read more

Odessa

Regional coordinator on Public Rela-tions of the Ukrainian Parliament Com-missioner for Human Rights in Odessa region Andriy Tolopilo:

• conducted a monitoring visit to Odessa Specialized Secondary Board-ing School № 93  for blind children –

an educational institution for visually impaired children needing oversight, medical, educational and rehabilitation services from the side of the state. Read more

Chernihiv

Regional coordinator on public of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in Chernihiv region Alla Lepekha:

• visited Ripkinskiy District Po-lice Unit of the Department of MIA of Ukraine in Chernihiv region, temporary holding facility of the mentioned dis-trict police unit, special room of the communal establishment of the Rip-kinskiy central district hospital and the special truck for transporting detainees. Read more

Access to Information

Electronic office to every district police inspector. The development of the institute of “public assistants” of the district police inspector.

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A meeting was held to focus efforts in the sphere of observance of informational rights of a person in the activity of law en-forcement authorities

Civil society presented the initiative “Electronic of-fice of a district police inspec-tor”

On 28 April 2015 in Kyiv held was a presentation of the initiative “Electronic office of a district police inspector” – a communica-tions platform aimed to build partner relations of police officers and com-munities, strengthen the effectiveness of the work of a district police inspector, optimize the process of co-operation with applicants and decrease the work load.

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On 9 April 2015 in the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commis-sioner for Human Rights a working meeting was held with the aim to dis-cuss how to fully focus general efforts to promote the observance of informa-tional rights of a person in the activ-ity of law enforcement authorities of Ukraine.

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Uliana Shadska: Electronic office of a district police inspector – what is it and with which proposals we addressed the MIA of Ukraine

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We continue working on the issue of fi-nancial transparency of the activity of MIA of Ukraine

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Activity of the Association UMDPL is supported by:International Renaissance Foundation and other institutions of the Open Society Founda-

tion network; National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (USA); UNDP in Ukraine; Council of Europe and European Council; Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

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Analytics, useful materials

Annual report of the Association UMDPL for 2014

Association UMDPL published an annual report on the activity of organization for 2014. This report covers the most important mo-ments of the activity of the Association UMDPL that happened during the year. There you can find information on the main activities, pro-jects and financing of the organization.

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A human rights defender Yuriy Chumak held trainings on the rights of journalists.

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Representative of the Association UMD-PL took part in the press-briefing on places of detention in the Anti-terrorist operation zone

On 13 May 2015 in the Crisis Media Center held was a press-briefing “Places of detention in the Anti-terrorist opera-tion zone: problems with evacuation and security of population in the near-front city of Mariupol”. Among the participants of the event was the program assistant of the Association UMDPL Serhiy Pernikoza.

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Human rights have to be observed in any situation in the country – say human rights defenders

On 28 May 2015, in the press-center of the informational and analytical agency “Glavkom” there was a press-conference on the topic:

“Narrowing human rights in Ukraine: threaten-ing tendencies?”. Vadym Pyvovariv, the execu-tive director of the Association UMDPL, Arkadiy Bushenko, the executive director of the Ukrain-ian Helsinki Human Rights Union, as well as Dmytro Karp, the coordinator of the civil or-ganization “Automaidan - Kyiv” answered to the questions.

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Yuriy Chumak spoke live in the program “Evening of a hard day”.

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Docudays UA in Kharkiv – ClubUkrCin-ema

During the show of the best movies of the International documentary hu-man rights film festival “Docudays UA” in Kharkiv in the Club of Ukrainian Movies, Yuriy Chumak, a member of the Asso-ciation UMDPL, told the audience more about the festival and the processes of global human rights protection.

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