Category: Europe
Yanina Hrabova: Criminal Offenses Related to the Misuse Of Humanitarian Aid (Ukrainian Context)
Any crisis, particularly armed conflict, is inevitably accompanied by rising levels of poverty and increased societal demand for both material and financial humanitarian assistance. Following the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine became a hub for the operational activity of various humanitarian organizations – both international and domestic. The unprecedented volume of aid flowing into the…
ProtectEU: a European Internal Security Strategy
Security is the bedrock upon which all our freedoms are built. Democracy, the rule of law, fundamental rights, the wellbeing of Europeans, competitiveness and prosperity – all hinge on our ability to provide a basic security guarantee. In the new era of security threats that we now live in, EU Member States’ ability to guarantee…
Dmytro Yagunov: How to Return Trust to the Police in Postwar Ukraine
During the war, the Government had the priority to combat against Russian occupiers, where a traditional peace-time issue of human rights approach has been replaced with humanitarian law. There are grounds to believe that Ukraine will have a generation of police officers grown up on the long distance from procedural justice and human rights. We can also presume…
Maryna Demura: The State of Compliance with Fundamental Human Rights Guarantees in Criminal Proceedings Under Martial Law
Access to a lawyer is an important guarantee of the right to a fair trial, the right to defence, the presumption of innocence and other fundamental rights. In Ukraine, representation in courts and public authorities is carried out exclusively by lawyers (advocates)[1]. Article 213 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine (CPC) obliges the official who carried out…
Dmytro Yagunov, Maryna Demura: Domestic Violence in Ukraine. Policing and the Impact of the War
Recently, domestic violence has become an object of special attention by the Parliament, the Government, and the society in general. Therefore, domestic violence could be an attractive object for criminological research in the context of the impact of the War on the society. In 2017, the Criminal Code was supplemented by Article 126-1 according to…
Albert Yezerov: The Impact of War on Human Rights: Restrictions and Derogations
krainian statehood has existed and transformed for more than ten years in conditions of the Russian armed aggression. Although Ukraine’s institutional system has been constantly tested by political crises and corruption, and traditions of constitutionalism were not well established before the War, the State is a developing constitutional democracy. The political and legal reality that…
Khatia Dekanoidze: Police Reform in Ukraine: Achievements and Failures
The Soviet Union established a deeply corrupt and flawed criminal justice system designed to protect itself. Infiltrated by organised crime, it essentially functioned as a criminal body. Following the Soviet collapse, except for the Baltic states, corruption, clan-based structures, nepotism, and human rights violations persisted in the newly independent republics, mirroring the Soviet framework. It…
Clemens Lorei, Kerstin Kocab: De-Escalation in Everyday Police Operations
Everyday police work encompasses any kind of deployment that police officers handle daily. These tasks include, for example, interventions in cases of domestic violence, handling of traffic crashes and offenses, and various forms of conflict resolution. Violence may be a part of these routine operations: police officers, when necessary, use varying levels of force to…