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REPORT 2017 CONTENTS About the Organization ........................................................................ 4 Our Team .................................................................................... 6 Strategic Directions of Organizational Activities .................................................. 10 1. COMMUNITY SAFETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS .................................................. 12 2. PREVENTION AND INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ........................... 18 2.1. Introduction of mechanisms for civic engagement in the prevention and investigation of human rights violations .....................................................................18 2.2. Enhancement of the capacity of public institutions in the prevention of human rights violations ..... 30 3. INVESTIGATION OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES AND HUMAN RIGHTS .............................. 36 4. HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PENITENTIARY SECTOR ............................................. 40 Our Partners ................................................................................ 44 Appendix 1. Financial report .................................................................. 46 3 Expert Centre for Human Rights is an NGO By criminal justice, we mean the activities founded in 2015 whose core activities include related to the making and implementation of complex sociological and legal research public policy in prevention and investigation of in the area of criminal justice, as well as offences, holding the perpetrators accountable, ABOUT THE development and promotion of effective sentencing, correction and resocialization of mechanisms of functioning of criminal justice persons who have committed offences. according to the best global practices and ORGANIZATION international standards. Our mission is to make the criminal justice Контакти: system in Ukraine fair and efficient in its strict м. Київ, вул. І. Мазепи, буд. 3, оф. 170 observance of human rights. www.ecpl.com.ua +38 095 39 300 39 [email protected] www.facebook.com/ExpertCenterForHumanRights/ 5 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Volodymyr SUSHCHENKO Tetyana PECHONCHYK Chairman of the Board Head of the Human Rights PhD in Law, Assistant Professor, Information Centre OUR TEAM Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine Mykola GNATOVSKYY Sergiy SHVETS Chairman of the European Committee Co-Founder, Honorary Member For the Prevention of Torture of Expert Centre for Human Rights 7 TEAM TEAM Yuri BYELOUSOV Ulyana SHADSKA Zlata SHVETS Andriy ORLEAN Executive Director Programme Manager, Project Manager, Programme Manager, Lawyer Sociologist Doctor of Law, Assistant Professor Viktor CHUPROV Viktoriya UNICHENKO Anastasiya APETYK Diana POLADOVA Programme Manager, Chief Accountant Project Manager, Lawyer Information Manager Lawyer 8 9 2 PREVENTION AND 1 INVESTIGATION OF STRATEGIC HUMAN RIGHTS 3 COMMUNITY SAFETY VIOLATIONS DIRECTIONS OF AND HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATION OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES AND HUMAN ORGANIZATIONAL 4 RIGHTS ACTIVITIES HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PENITENTIARY SECTOR 11 PROGRAM 1: COMMUNITY SAFETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS Program Manager – Uliana Shadska In September 2017, the International Renaissance 1 Foundation supported the launch of the project “The “Community Safety and Human Rights” Program Development of Institutional Capacity of Community Exposure to Security at Their Place of Residence.” The goal of the program is to strengthen the community’s As part of the project, a study was conducted on the ability to form and influence security policies at their powers of key stakeholders responsible for the security place of residence. at the local level, as well as international practices of In 2017, Center experts participated in the comprehensive COMMUNITY SAFETY analysis of interaction practices between the police, local self-government bodies, and the public to develop AND HUMAN RIGHTS initiatives in the field of security at the community level. This research was aimed at the subsequent development of tools for strengthening communicative and institutional capacities of these actors. It was conducted with the support of International Renaissance Foundation within the framework of the activities of the expert group on community policing concept development. This expert group also includes representatives of the Public Organization “Human Rights Information Center”, Public Union “Legal Development Network”, and NGO “Institute for Peace and Common Ground”. 13 Uliana Shadska, the specialist of the Expert Center community influence on the security at their place of for Human Rights, participated in the development residence were analyzed. The obtained analysis will of the toolkit used to monitor the state of territorial form the basis for a practical manual on the safety of communities’ safety - a Local Human Rights Index. Using communities. this toolkit, it is possible to assess how the authorities In the course of the year, meetings with the exercise human rights and analyze if the local program representatives of local authorities, law enforcement, and for enhancing community safety and order is effective, the public were held in Kyiv, Lviv, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, whether the population opinion is accounted for in the Rivne, and Irpin communities. During these meetings, course of local program development, and if modern the actual state of population security arrangements and technologically informative systems are being was discussed, as well as the community readiness for implemented. The concept of the Local Human Rights the implementation of threat prevention measures and Index was developed by the Helsinki Committee for response to them. In addition, the level of community Human Rights in league with the Ombudsman’s Office engagement in the formation of and influence on the and other state and public institutions. policies at their place of residence was analyzed. Expert Center for Human Rights has been implementing Among other things, Center experts studied the a number of initiatives designed to enhance the development of the territorial security infrastructure, in enforcement of rights of the vulnerable population particular, intellectual control system, which monitors, groups since 2016. Quite often, drug addicts and people timely informs, and coordinates all units responsible engaged in sex business who are unable to effectively for the security in case of threats. They analyzed the resist unlawful actions of the law enforcement officers experience of video surveillance systems operation or protect and restore their rights in case of violations in the Situation Centers on City Safety, as well as the are subjected to right and freedoms violations due to process of cooperation with other services responsible their vulnerable situation. Vulnerability in this context for the population protection. means the condition, in which individuals are deprived of or limited in their ability to resist violent or other illegal acts due to their physical or mental qualities or other 14 15 circumstances caused by drug use or involvement in Awareness raising and educational events (trainings, the sex business (for more details on the Expert Center seminars) related to community safety enhancement for Human Rights initiative in this field, see Chapter 2 of for representatives of the police, local self-government the report). bodies, public organizations in Ukrainian regions, constitute an essential component of the Expert Center In November 2017, Uliana Shadska, the specialist of the for Human Rights activities in the field of safety. In Expert Center for Human Rights, participated in the joint addition, Center specialists participate in international event held by non-governmental organizations dealing events both in Ukraine and abroad as trainers and with vulnerable groups, during which the idea to involve speakers. these groups in the implementation of security initiatives within communities appeared. In March, Uliana Shadska, a specialist of the Expert Center for Human Rights, delivered a speech at Based on the discussion results, Expert Center for the Community Policing international conference in Human Rights introduced a new course for its activities Moldova, which was dedicated to the best practices aimed at the development of effective initiatives related of police activities. The event was organized by the to the integration of vulnerable groups, including drug Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova in addicts, into the community life. For this purpose, the partnership with the Institute for Public Policy. The aim of following measures are planned in 2018: the Conference is to represent international examples of implementation of the police activities concept based − Comprehensive analysis of the conditions and on the partnership with the community (community factors that may affect the process of integration of policing), representatives of the Ministry of Internal drug-addicted individuals into the community life Affairs, General Police Inspection, local self-government − Development (based on the analysis conducted) of bodies and civil society organizations in the Republic of the action plan, which will include specific community Moldova. policing-based security initiative adapted to the Invited participants included international experts from conditions of specific community initiative on the the OSCE, Albania, Estonia, Belgium, Latvia, Ukraine, integration of vulnerable groups. and the European Union Advisory Mission. 16 17 PROGRAM 2: PREVENTION AND INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS 2 Program Manager