Since 2007, Oleksandra Matviychuk has been Head of the Board of the Centre for Civil Liberties, a human rights NGO whose activities include the OZON volunteer movement to monitor law enforcement institutions. All around Ukraine, those volunteers follow peaceful assemblies and courts – they are easily identifiable with their yellow jackets. Their task? Observing how the police fulfil their duty of protection towards protestors, and courts abide by rule of law standards.

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Enhancing cooperation between the police, local authorities and civil society is the key objective for a series of 9 workshops on community policing and community safety organised this summer by the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM Ukraine) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) within the ‘Pravo Police’ support package. Delivered in the regions of Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Kirovograd, Chernivtsi and Khmelnytsky, these awareness workshops ensure the inclusiveness for all groups of community members, including women, men, boys and girls, adolescents, youth, disabled, internally displaced persons (IDPs), elderly and others.

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