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…
Category: Standards
Lawmakers in the Brazilian State of Rio De Janeiro Approved Bonuses for Police Officers Who Kill “Criminals”
Lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro have approved a bonus for police officers who kill “criminals,” a move that sparked outrage among rights defenders who fear a “massacre”. A similar measure, nicknamed the “Wild West Bonus”, was in effect from 1995 to 1998 when it was scrapped due to a sharp rise…
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…
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…
Andrii Chernousov: Children in War, or How Russia Kills the Childhood
The Russian Federation continues to involve Ukrainian children in the War violating numerous international standards and treaties. Forced displacement of Ukrainian children remains widespread in territories that are temporarily occupied or under constant shelling. At the same time, there is still no single transparent algorithm or mechanism that allows Ukrainian children deported to Russia to…
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…
Detective Superintendent Asbjorn Rachlew: A Real Alternative to Police Interrogation
Detective Superintendent, Asbjorn Rachlew (PhD) is one of the most famous personalities among police officers in Europe. He combines his excessive practical experience with an academic approach to implement the technique of the Investigative Interviewing into the practices of the police services across the world. We had an excellent opportunity to ask him several short questions about…
Supreme Court (Ukraine): Artificial Intelligence Responses Are Not Recognised as a Source of Reliable, Acientifically Proven Information
Artificial intelligence can be a useful and helpful informative tool in the field of justice, but it cannot replace either a judge or the principles of relevance, admissibility and reliability of evidence provided for in Chapter 5 ‘Evidence and Proof’ of the Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine. This conclusion was reached by a panel of…