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69 total results foundAuthor: Bochkor, N.P. Title: Status Report on Implementation of the State Programme on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for the period until 2010 in Ukraine: Results of the 2007-2008 Monitoring Summary: This report presents the results of monitoring over the implementation of the State Programme on Combating Trafficking in Human Rights for the period until 2010, which was initiated to study the problems and work out recommendations on the improvement of these activities. The report is intended for the representatives of public authorities, public and international organizations as well as for the general public. Details: Kyiv, Ukraine: Ministry of Ukraine on Family, Youth and Sports Affairs and the International Women's Rights Centre, 2009. 70 p. Source: Year: 2009 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Human Trafficking Shelf Number: 117714 |
Author: Winrock International Title: Winning Strategies: Trafficking Prevention Project in Ukraine, 1998-2004 Summary: This report presents a detailed picture of the benefits of sustainable employment opportunities to trafficking victims. Details: Kyiv, Ukraine: Winrock International, 2004. 57p. Source: Year: 2004 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Employment, Victims of Trafficking Shelf Number: 117750 |
Author: Fedkovych, Halyna Title: Combating Domestic Violence: Ukrainian and International Experience Summary: This publication summarizes basic achievements and results of a study and research on victim's experience in contacts with law enforcement and governmental institutions, media monitoring, research on prevalence of domestic violence, as well as legislative analysis, conducted in a frame of the project "Study and Incorporation of International Human Rights Standards for Solving Domestic Violence Problem in Ukraine". Details: Lviv, Ukraine: Publishing House of Lviv Polytechnic National University, 2007. 111p. Source: Year: 2007 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Domestic Violence (Ukraine) Shelf Number: 117665 |
Author: Solkner, Andrea Title: Needs Assessment of the National Referral Mechanism for Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings in Ukraine: Assessment Report Summary: This report assesses the situation of trafficking in human beings in Ukraine, in particular with regard to the identification, referral, assistance and protection of the rights of trafficked persons. It reviews the current responses by government and non-government institutions to the problems and needs of trafficked persons. Details: Kyiv: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, 2008. 113 p. Source: Year: 2008 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Human Rights (Ukraine) Shelf Number: 118314 |
Author: Beck, Adrian Title: Context Driven Community Policing in Ukraine: Final Report Summary: This is the final report to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the project on Introducing Context Specific Community Policing in Ukraine. This has been a three-year project focused on building a ‘model of best practice’ for improving the relationship between the police and the public in Ukraine and enhancing co-operation between them on crime prevention and community safety. With that purpose, the project introduced and evaluated a number of context-specific forms of community policing within limited geographical police areas in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The project had four distinct objectives: To identify and understand the context within which community policing might take place within Ukraine; To introduce a number of context-specific forms of community policing within limited geographical police areas; To evaluate the effect such schemes have on the relationship between the community and the police, and on the levels of reported and recorded crime; and To develop a new module to be taught at Kharkiv University of Internal Affairs on Understanding and Implementing Community Policing in Ukraine. Details: Leicester, UK: Scarman Centre, University of Leicester, 2003. 31p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 9, 2010 at: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/criminology/people/bna/ContextDrivenCommunityPolicinginUkrainepdf/view?searchterm=policing Year: 2003 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Community Policing Shelf Number: 119774 |
Author: Beck, Adrian Title: Crime and Policing in Ukraine: The Kharkiv Crime Survey 2000 Summary: This is the first report from the Introducing Context-Specific Community Policing into Ukraine project. The project seeks to utilise the experience of western countries on community policing and to work in close partnership with colleagues in Ukraine to develop a programme of reform for the police. The current project is part of a broad range of assistance being offered by a number European countries and the United States to the police forces of the former socialist states in recent years. This help has come in a number of different forms ranging from organising seminars on international topics such as organised crime to the provision of specific equipment such as forensic and investigative tools. This project attempts to assist/foster the process of democratic police reform in Ukraine by initiating the change ‘from within’, through experimental testing and identification of various forms of improved police practice and co-operation with the public in preventing and solving crime. Overall, the project is organised into three phases: understanding the context; implementing schemes; and evaluating the impact. It has four distinct aims: To identify and understand the context within which community policing might take place within Ukraine; To introduce a number of context-specific forms of community policing within limited geographical police areas; To evaluate the effect such schemes have on the relationship between the community and the police, and on the levels of reported and recorded crime, and the fear of crime; and To develop a new module to be taught at Kharkiv University of Internal Affairs on Understanding and Implementing Community Policing in Ukraine, and to introduce a short course variant delivered as part of in-service training to existing police officers. This report presents the findings from the first phase of the project that was designed to identify some of the important prerequisites for the development of various forms of community policing. Without a complete grasp of the context within which any form of police reorganisation might take place, changes are likely to be misconstrued, mismanaged and ultimately meaningless. The context also provides the bedrock on which the implementation phase will be built. A cornerstone of community policing is the relationship between the police and the community. It was important therefore to first accurately measure what the public currently thought about crime and policing in their area – how do they view the problems of crime, what do they think about the police, would they be interested in becoming involved in ‘community policing’ style activities? Similarly, it was as important to ascertain what police officers thought – how do they view the public, do they see themselves as servants of the people or the state, what do they see as their own and the state’s priorities for the police in the future? Finally, collecting data on the levels of reported and recorded crime within the research areas was important in order to provide a benchmark for the later evaluation phase of the project. Detailed here are the findings from extensive surveys of the public in the two areas in the city of Kharkiv chosen to take part in the project. Over two thousand members of the public were interviewed as part of the research phase. In addition, all the available police officers in the two areas were interviewed as well. The report is organised into 11 sections. The first 5 sections map out the extent of victimisation and the levels of concern about a range of crime and nuisance problems in the two areas. It then goes on to look at what the public do to try and protect themselves and their possessions from crime. This is followed by a consideration of the relationship between the police and the public, focusing on the nature of contacts in the past and how the police and the public view each other. The report then considers attitudes towards police/public co-operation in the past and more importantly, in the future. It concludes by bringing the main findings together and makes a series of recommendations about the types of schemes that are most suitable for the next phase of the project. Details: Leicester, UK: Scarman Centre, University of Leicester, 2001. 93p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 3, 2010 at: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/criminology/people/bna/CrimeandPolicinginUkrainetheKharkivCrimesurvey2000pdf Year: 2001 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Community Policing Shelf Number: 120178 |
Author: Amnesty International Title: No Evidence of a Crime: Paying the Price for Police Impunity in Ukraine Summary: Human rights abuses are practised systematically by the police in Ukraine, despite increasing efforts to combat the problem and growing public outrage. institutional failings and high levels of corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs mean that people who come into contact with the police are at risk of a wide range of abuses, from verbal attacks to torture and other ill-treatment, including fatal injuries. investigations into these events are often delayed, ineffective and biased, which only encourages the police in a culture of impunity. This report is a result of interviews carried out by Amnesty International in March and April 2011 with victims, lawyers and human rights defenders. It includes case histories, analyses the problem of torture and ill-treatment in Ukraine and makes recommendations to the government. Amnesty International makes a variety of recommendations which will help the government fulfil its international obligation to combat torture and other ill-treatment. These include: the establishment of a fully resourced, independent agency to investigate all allegations of human rights violations by law enforcement officers, including the police; better safeguards for detainees in police custody; and the establishment of an independent organization with powers to monitor places of detention. Details: London: Amnesty International, 2011. 53p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 18, 2011 at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR50/009/2011/en/8b104ee8-689f-4bc3-9fb2-2c68916be33b/eur500092011en.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Human Rights (Ukraine) Shelf Number: 123043 |
Author: Bezkorovainiy, Volodymyr Title: Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Disorder at Sea: The View from Ukraine Summary: This English version of the Ukrainian paper, offers data and analysis on the growth of piracy and maritime terrorism, with a special emphasis on the Ukranian perspective. Details: London: The Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, King's College London, 2012. 21p. Source: Corbett Paper No. 8: Internet Resource Accessed on January 29, 2012 at http://maritimesecurity.asia/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Corbett%20Paper%20No8%20MaritimeSecurity.Asia.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Maritime Crime Shelf Number: 123868 |
Author: Surtees, Rebecca Title: Trafficked at Sea. The exploitation of Ukrainian seafarers and fishers Summary: The blight of slavery continues to afflict our world today, on a far greater scale and in far more insidious forms than many of us realise. This paper addresses a manifestation of human trafficking that has yet to receive the attention it deserves from policymakers, practitioners or prosecutors around the world: seafarers and fishermen trapped for their labour at sea. The men interviewed for this report, young and old, experienced and novice, were led through a calculated maze into a world of imprisonment at sea, backbreaking labour, sleep deprivation, crippling and untreated illness, and, for the least fortunate, death. These men, seeking honest work at sea, ended up on slave ships without means of escape or reasonable prospects for rescue. Their unsettling stories are echoed by the experience of men in a number of countries around the world. Countries must find new ways to end the impunity of these floating safe havens for traffickers. This report also shines a bright light on the role played by unscrupulous labour recruiters, who repeatedly spin their deceptions to lure these men into the trap that waits for them at sea. In such cases, the recruiters are an integral part of a trafficking scheme under international instruments such as the UN Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons and the governments of the countries in which they operate – in most cases in the home countries where the men are citizens and live – need to investigate and prosecute these recruiters, and the agencies they work for, as traffickers. Trafficking for forced labour has historically received less recognition than the more sensational sex trafficking cases. But as the groundbreaking research that forms the basis for this paper reveals, labour trafficking at sea is every bit as inhumane, and in dire need of a solution, as any form of slavery practiced today. This paper attempts to lay the groundwork for that solution by providing insight into the nature of this form of trafficking, analysis of its causes and patterns and recommendations for how to move forward. This report represents some of the very first in-depth research on the issue of seafarers and fishers as victims of trafficking. The importance of increasing popular awareness of this phenomenon and of encouraging governments, organisations, and individuals to take action on it, cannot be overemphasised. It was in that light that the NEXUS Institute, with support from IOM, was inspired to dig deeper into this understudied yet critical issue. The challenges confronting the international community in addressing trafficking at sea are not few and they do not lend themselves to easy solutions. The very nature of trafficking at sea—the mobility of the vessels used, its camouflage within the traditional seafaring industry and the illegal fishing market that funds it, among other characteristics —make it one of the most challenging forms of human trafficking to seek out and eradicate. But that eradication remains, as ever, our goal. Details: Geneva, SWIT: International Organization for Migration; Washington, DC: NEXUS Institute, 2012. 140p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 2, 2013 at: http://www.nexusinstitute.net/publications/pdfs/Trafficked%20at%20sea%20web.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Fishermen Shelf Number: 128602 |
Author: Human Rights Watch Title: Studying Under Fire: Attacks on Schools, Military Use of Schools During the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine Summary: The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russia-backed militants has led to widespread damage and destruction of hundreds of kindergartens and schools. All sides carried out indiscriminate or deliberate attacks on schools using heavy artillery, mortar, and in some cases unguided rockets. They have also used schools for military purposes, deploying military forces in and near schools. In most cases investigated by Human Rights Watch, schools that were used by fighters remain unsafe because troops left behind heavy artillery or unused munitions. Military use of a school can turn it into a legitimate military target and put students at risk. Deploying military in and near schools exposes important education infrastructure to damage and destruction. Based on 62 interviews, this report documents attacks on schools on both sides of the line of contact that separates areas held by Ukrainian government forces from those held by rebels. It also documents the use of schools by both sides for military purposes. The report examines some of the negative impacts of the armed conflict on the right to quality education for Ukrainian children. It describes obstacles children face in accessing schools due to hostilities, government-imposed travel restrictions, and lack of transportation. Human Rights Watch urges both Ukrainian authorities and Russia-backed militants to cease all attacks against schools that do not constitute military objectives and avoid deploying inside or adjacent to schools and kindergartens. Ukrainian authorities should deter the military use of schools by, among other things, endorsing the UN Safe Schools Declaration. Details: New York: HRW, 2016. 83p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 25, 2016 at: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/ukraine0216_web.pdf Year: 2016 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Militias Shelf Number: 137965 |
Author: Amnesty International Title: "You Don't Exist": Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances, and Torture in Eastern Ukraine Summary: Both the Ukrainian government authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have held civilians in prolonged, arbitrary detention, without any contact with the outside world, including with their lawyers or families. In some cases, the detentions constituted enforced disappearances, meaning that the authorities in question refused to acknowledge the detention of the person or refused to provide any information on their whereabouts or fate. Most of those detained suffered torture or other forms of ill-treatment. Several were denied needed medical attention for the injuries they sustained in detention. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch investigated in detail nine cases of arbitrary, prolonged detention of civilians by the Ukrainian authorities in informal detention sites and nine cases of arbitrary, prolonged detention of civilians by Russia-backed separatists. This report details cases that took place mostly in 2015 and the first half of 2016. Details: London: AI; New York; HRW, 2016. 42p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 21, 2016 at: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur50/4455/2016/en/ Year: 2016 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Arbitrary Detentions Shelf Number: 139785 |
Author: Bochkor, N.P. Title: Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism. County-Specific Report: Ukraine Summary: How did Ukraine appear in the list of countries where commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is common? It is difficult to answer, because the problem is hidden and its reasons are comprehensive. Ukraine does not have a chance to solve the problem before it is thoroughly studied. The study "Sexual exploitation of children in Ukraine: situation and counteraction" was conducted by the authors of International Women's Rights Center "La Strada-Ukraine". This work is a part of a global study on sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism in 15 countries within the framework of the project initiated by ECPAT - Netherlands. The aim of the study is to analyze the current situation with sexual exploitation and violence against children, especially in tourism, pornography, prostitution, trafficking and early marriages, and also develop recommendations to improve it. The study used a variety of methods, such as statistical, sociological, comparative and legal study, empirical methods. One of the basic principles of the study is the respect to children's rights according to the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Despite the fact that children at first sight often seem to provide sex-services voluntarily, the responsibility lies on the adult who exploits a child by engaging in sexual activities and violates child rights. Other important principles of the study are non-discrimination, equality, human rights approach, and child and youth participation. The research uses the following sources of information: content analysis of the web sites, analysis of legislation and administrative documents of state authorities, secondary analysis of information, desk-research of the related studies conducted in Ukraine. For example, data used for the content analysis consists of different texts obtained online by establishing specific searching parameters. The sample included texts that are topically related to combinations of the following key words: "Ukraine," "sex," "tourism," "women," "dating," "tour," "children," "girls." Furthermore, snowball sampling was used to obtain relevant texts; hypertext links provided access to related articles and comments. The vast majority of studied texts are in English. Publications and reports which were prepared in Ukraine during the last five years were analyzed. Among them - Annual Human Rights Report "Human rights in Ukraine" in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 prepared by nongovernmental organizations; researches conducted by different institutions on the request of UNICEF Ukraine; reports of the Ombudsman for Children under the President of Ukraine etc. Special attention was paid to the desk research of the materials and texts of sociological and criminological studies such as "Child sex tourism in Ukraine: attempt of situational analysis", "Where and how can be assisted victims of domestic abuse? Results of the monitoring of special institutions", "Legal Study to identify inconsistencies between Ukraine national legislation and provisions of the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child", publications of ECPAT International etc. The research uses findings of the following publications: "Scientific and practical comment to the Law of Ukraine on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings", "Correspondence of Ukrainian legislation to the provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings". Moreover, the research analyzes anti-trafficking legislation and experience of its implementation, as well as the legislation against sexual exploitation of children and experience of its practical implementation. Analysis also focused at activities against sexual exploitation of children and assistance to them initiated by civil society and international organizations. The study was conducted when Ukraine was facing the difficult times. Hostile aggression against Ukraine took place immediately after the Revolution of Dignity, and the East of the country is in the state of undeclared war actively supported by the Russian Federation. The deterioration of the social and economic status, activity of illegal armed groups, destroyed system of social protection in Donets and Luhansk oblasts, including protection of children, lead to the increasing problem with sexual exploitation of children. The survey among experts allows assuming that in current social and political situation CSEC might become more urgent, and estimating the impact of the military conflict and its consequences. At the end, there are some recommendations to legislation, activities of related state agencies and local authorities, international and civil society organizations. Details: La Strada Ukraine, 2015. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 15, 2016 at: http://globalstudysectt.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/3.-SECTT-UKRAINE.pdf Year: 2015 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Child Pornography Shelf Number: 147885 |
Author: Oliker, Olga Title: Security Sector Reform in Ukraine Summary: The Maidan Revolution in Ukraine created an opportunity for change and reforms in a system that had resisted them for the past quarter century. This report examines Ukraine's security sector, assessing what different institutions need to do and evaluating where gaps exist that preclude these institutions from being effective, efficient, transparent, and accountable. The report's recommendations for reforms in Ukraine's security sector suggest changes to fill those gaps in ways that align with Euro-Atlantic standards and approaches. These include clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the President, Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Defense, and the General Staff; improving coordination and transparency among the security sector ministries and agencies; reorganizing and empowering the Ministry of Defense; and improving Ukraine's capabilities for warfighting. Key Findings Roles and Responsibilities Are Unclear The roles and responsibilities of the President and Cabinet of Ministers are ambiguous and relationships with the Cabinet of Ministers are unwieldy. There are gaps and overlaps in the functions performed by the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff. Civilian control remains weak below the President and Cabinet of Ministers. Regulations and organizational culture tend to push routine decisions upward to at least the Deputy Minister level, contributing to a culture of avoiding responsibility. Coordination Is Lacking Across the Sector In Ukraine, ministries and agencies operate independently, with little accountability and coordination. They have their own resources, make their own decisions, and set their own tasks. Sharing of information is inconsistent. Individual ministries or agencies fail to specialize and instead invest in broad ranges of capabilities. Decision-making is often taken to the highest levels, overwhelming senior officials. Organizations designed to coordinate ministries and agencies are weak or ineffective. Recommendations Define responsibilities and authorities of the security-sector leadership. The President should have responsibility for the defense of Ukraine against threats to its sovereignty and independence. Presidential responsibilities extend to the command and control of military operations and to policy control over the Ministry of Defence and General Staff. The Minister of Defense should be the senior official charged with making and carrying out the Ukrainian government's policy on defense; the chain of command should run from the President to the Minister of Defense, to the Chief of Defense Force, to the Joint Operational Command. Improve coordination across the government by expanding the responsibilities of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to include implementation of the President's decisions, expanding of the role of the Joint Committee on Intelligence, creating a new cybersecurity and defense structure under a Joint Committee on Cyber Security, and creating a committee to coordinate foreign defense assistance. Reduce the size of the Security Service of Ukraine and clarify and narrow its authorities as a domestic intelligence organization, while retaining its responsibility for some law enforcement activities in coordination with other agencies. Empower the Minister of Defense as senior civilian adviser to the President, Prime Minister, and Ukraine's parliament on defense policies; reorganize the Ministry of Defense into new departments aligned with roles to avoid the inefficiencies, establish the Chief of the Defense Forces as primary military adviser to the Minister and the President; and create a Joint Operational Command to centralize responsibilities for ongoing military operations. Details: Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2016. 136p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 10, 2016 at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1475-1.html Year: 2016 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Cybersecurity Shelf Number: 141085 |
Author: Martyniuk, Anton Title: Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Ukraine Summary: Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Ukraine is the fourth case study in a series examining the measurement of illicit arms flows in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 16. Based on interviews carried out in Kiev in addition to desk research , this analysis outlines the sources of illicit arms flows in Ukraine and the status of government plans or action to counter the problem, the trafficking routes used to smuggle weapons, and key indicators of illicit arms flows in the period 2010-2016. Key findings: Ukrainian civilians possess large numbers of unregistered small arms. The conflict in the east has contributed to significant diversion and losses from national stockpiles and the proliferation of a wider array of weapons types. The conflict and the concomitant increase in insecurity correlate with increased seizures from 2013 to 2014, although efforts to stem the proliferation of weapons have recovered only a modest number of illicit firearms. Ukraine still has no primary law regulating the manufacture, purchase, and possession of firearms and no central state register of civilian-held firearms. This makes it difficult even to differentiate between legal and illegal firearms in the country - and, by extension, complicates efforts to monitor and address illicit arms flows. Details: Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 2017. 8p. Source: Internet Resource: Briefing Paper: Accessed May 3, 2017 at: http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/T-Briefing-Papers/SAS-BP3-Ukraine.pdf Year: 2017 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Firearms Trafficking Shelf Number: 145253 |
Author: Lutsenko, Yevhenia Title: Trafficking in Ukraine: An Assessment of Current Responses Summary: This study was commissioned by the Kyiv representative missions of UNICEF, OSCE, USAID and the British Council, with the support of the Ministry of Family, Children and Youth Affairs of Ukraine.1 This report on the results of the research presents an overview of the current situation with trafficking in Ukraine and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of programmes aimed at combating trafficking. This paper focuses on the wider context of trafficking in persons from Ukraine. One of the key points in this report is that, despite a number of very effective programmes conducted within the current notions of what is popularly understood as trafficking in persons, there remain identifiable gaps in the understanding of this phenomenon. This has resulted in the exclusion of certain groups that were not traditionally viewed as being at risk of being trafficked, including men and older women. As such, the current strategies do not necessarily tackle all the issues pertinent to these groups, nor the actual situations that may confront them. Thus, the report explores this criminal phenomenon in all its aspects and provides a situation analysis of trafficking in Ukraine. Overview of Findings and Recommendations The analysis of preventive activities focuses on the vast and diverse range of programmes conducted to address vulnerability issues such as unemployment, poverty, discrimination, domestic violence, and the violation of human rights The strengths of some of the current programmes are several: • Trafficking awareness-raising activities, such as workshops and conferences, have proven their overall effectiveness, success in reaching target groups, and longerterm sustainability – in particular, job skills training and economic empowerment. These help to tackle root “push” factors, but should be extended to additional target groups, including the work of lecture groups in isolated regions. • Educational, media and other informational campaigns remain important outreach tools and are still in high demand. • The multi-dimensional benefits of trafficking hotlines have demonstrated that this outreach service warrants continued support: they provide concrete answers and referral information to specific questions posed by callers, and they contribute to invaluable data collection. • Ukraine’s participation as both teacher and student in the exchange of international experience has broadened its government’s understanding and handling of the trafficking problem. In addition to presenting the actual roles of international, government and non-government organizations, this report explores alternative outreach mechanisms, such as working through youth groups and faith-based organizations. Additional focus areas include: • The need to emphasize the responsibilities and obligations of destination countries in tackling the trafficking problem by offering migrant workers legal and transparent employment opportunities and protecting their rights as workers. • The importance of amending domestic legislation to include internal trafficking. In studying the effectiveness of the prosecution process and each of the roles performed by different law enforcement agencies, this report identifies specific areas where progress has been made: • The number of trafficking cases has increased. • Capacity among law enforcement agencies is growing. • In recent years, cooperation has emerged between NGOs and law enforcement agencies, particularly with regard to witness protection. • The UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime and the UN Protocol which adds to the Convention, have been ratified and the appropriate changes in domestic legislation initiated. However, serious obstacles to conducting a complete and successful investigation and seeing it through to a conviction remain, and they require action: • Implementing a functional witness protection programme. • Introducing specialised training and support for the State Border Service • Getting the Supreme Court to hand down guidelines on handling trafficking cases, so that the lower courts might more effectively apply legislation that may be unclear, especially as regards heavier sentences against those convicted of trafficking crimes. The issues of protection and assistance for trafficked persons have taken on particular significance in more recent programmes. Findings show that various types of assistance are available, including medical, psychological, legal, and job skills training, job placement and other reintegration assistance, such as micro-crediting. However: • While psychological assistance is widely available through state institutions, medical assistance, due to the high costs involved, is only available through shelters funded by international organizations and is therefore not necessarily sustainable. • Legal assistance is critical in the protection of the rights of trafficked persons, but at this time, it is not fully provided in all cases. The shelters currently available to trafficked persons fulfil a much-needed function for short-term rehabilitation and reintegration. However, there is a lack of resources to support drop-in crisis centres that could provide long-term reintegration support for the majority of trafficked persons who prefer to live at home upon their return to Ukraine but need access to professionals such as psychologists and social workers. This report places particular emphasis on: • The concept of compensation to trafficked persons for moral and material damages. • The process of identifying trafficked persons. Considering Ukraine’s multi-faceted and long-term approach to programmes combating trafficking in persons, the issues of coordination and cooperation on the national and regional level are of utmost importance. Currently, degrees of cooperation tend to shift at the international, national and regional levels. An analysis of mechanisms that have been effective and areas of activity that need to be improved, in terms of greater cohesion, impact and sustainability, shows that: • The Comprehensive Anti-Trafficking Programme needs to be more task-oriented and specific in establishing the role of government institutions designated as executors, and should include time frames and benchmarks. • The Inter-Agency Coordinating Council for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons needs to demonstrate leadership and commitment to the Comprehensive Programme by meeting more often and regularly, and taking the initiative in coordinating anti-trafficking activities in Ukraine. • Cooperation between government and non-government organizations should be based on mutual respect and understanding of each other’s strengths and resources. • The cooperation of law enforcement both internally and internationally will contribute to the successful conclusion of cases involving trafficking in persons. • The diversity of organizations involved in anti-trafficking activities will contribute greatly to the successful creation of innovative, complementary programming through the specific experience and background that each of these organizations brings into its work. We hope that this report will help promote further constructive dialogue between government and non-government organizations, both in Ukraine and abroad, as well as better cooperation in counteracting the trafficking of persons from Ukraine. Details: Kyiv: UNICEF, OSCE, USAID, British Council, 2005. 220p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 17, 2018 at: https://www.unicef.org/ukraine/trafficking(1).pdf Year: 2005 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Border Security Shelf Number: 117116 |
Author: Cherepakha, Kateryna Title: Criminal Justice Practice and Violence Against Women: Assessment of the Readiness of the Ukrainian Criminal Justice System to Implement the Principles of the Istanbul Convention Summary: The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and La Strada-Ukraine (LSU) collaborated to assess the current practices of the Ukrainian criminal justice system response to violence against women and domestic violence. The aim of the assessment was to identify the readiness of the criminal justice system to implement the principles and obligations associated with the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. Ukraine signed the Istanbul Convention in 2011 and is expected to ratify it in 2017. This assessment report, with recommendations, is intended to serve as a baseline for the development of policies and projects to improve the criminal justice system response to violence against women and domestic violence. Details: Geneva, SWIT: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), 2017. 73p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 6, 2018 at: https://www.dcaf.ch/sites/default/files/publications/documents/Criminal%20justice%20practice%20and%20violence%20against%20women_engl.pdf Year: 2017 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Domestic Violence Shelf Number: 151023 |
Author: Wallace, Tom Title: The Odessa Network: Mapping Facilitators of Russian and Ukrainian Arms Transfers Summary: A network of Ukraine-based individuals and logistics companies-referred to herein as the "Odessa Network" due to its key leadership being located in Odessa, Ukraine—is responsible for transporting weapons out of Russia and Ukraine on behalf of government sellers. Evidence suggests that some of these companies may transport weapons to the Assad regime in Syria, among other notorious violators of human rights. The Odessa Network is a loose collection of logistics contractors for the governments of Russia and Ukraine, not independent arms dealers. Key companies and figures in Odessa include Kaalbye Group, Phoenix Trans-Servis, and their high-level political connections via key facilitators such as Boris Kogan. The companies work with state weapons export agencies such as Rosoboron export and Ukrspets export. Odessa Network company leaders have personal and financial relationships with cabinet level officials in the Russian and Ukrainian governments, including a personal advisor to Putin and senior Russian military industrial figures. The Odessa Network centers on a group of Odessa-based private companies that regularly move large arms shipments. Affiliated EU and Russian shipping firms such as Briese Schiffahrts (and its subsidiary BBC Chartering) and Balchart play an important specialized role in transporting particularly large or sensitive shipments. The network is deeply interconnected. Personnel and equipment frequently cycle between different companies, and many network members are family members, close friends, former classmates, etc. The vast majority of weapons shipments leave from the Ukrainian port of Oktyabrsk, which was specially built by the USSR to move weapons (for example, this was the point of origin for Cuba-bound missiles in 1963). Despite being located in Ukraine, Oktyabrsk is functionally controlled by Russia-the port manager is a former Russian navy captain, and the port owner is a Kremlin-linked oligarch. Russian state weapons export agencies and Odessa Network firms maintain offices and personnel in Oktyabrsk. The Ukrainian firms also engage in non-weapons business-freight brokering, crewing, chartering, etc.-and operate in global shipping centers such as Hamburg, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, and Dubai. To protect their weapons shipments, some of the Ukrainian and Russian firms own or contract with multiple private maritime security companies, who also operate in African conflict zones. Weapons and non-weapons shipping activities generate large profits for Odessa Network leaders. They put their money in both legitimate ventures and a well-known network of Panamamian shell companies and Latvian banks that have been used for money laundering by other entities, including the Sinaloa Cartel and Hezbollah. They also are active users of US and EU financial institutions. Understanding and tracking Odessa Network activities is valuable in several ways. Since the Odessa Network consists of the prime transportation contractors for Russian and Ukrainian weapons export agencies, tracking their ship movements is an efficient way of determining weapon destinations. This is particularly helpful because Russia and Ukraine are the main weapons suppliers to countries such as Syria and the DRC. This report identifies over 20 previously undiscovered shipments of unknown cargo by Odessa Network-linked shipping companies from Oktyabrsk to Syria in 2012 and 2013. Finally, our report proposes an alternative hypothesis that examines the high volume of Syrian ships moving unknown cargo between Oktyabrsk and the Eastern Mediterranean in 2012. The inclusion of any company in this report is not intended to imply participation in illegal activity, and a judgment as such is far beyond the purview of this research. Indeed, most of the activity described herein is perfectly legal. Rather, the goal of the report is simply to bring some measure of transparency to an otherwise opaque industry. Details: Washington, DC: C4ADS, 2013. 83p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 9, 2018 at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/56af8a2dd210b86520934e62/1454344757606/The+Odessa+Network.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Arms Transfers Shelf Number: 151093 |
Author: Earthsight Title: Complicit in Corruption: How billion-dollar firms and EU governments are failing Ukraine's forests Summary: - For the last two years, Earthsight has been investigating illegal logging and timber corruption in Ukraine, and tracking connections to overseas markets. Our findings reveal an industry steeped in illegality, with the biggest problems involving corruption among the state enterprises that do most of the logging, and their superiors within the country's forest administration. This corruption is threatening Ukraine's forests - home to lynx, bear and wolves - and also undermining wider governance in a fragile state suffering from armed conflict. - Earthsight's field studies revealed multiple breaches of regulations governing harvesting in every logging enterprise visited. The most destructive is the systematic abuse of loopholes allowing trees to be harvested to prevent the spread of disease. - We reveal how a previous national forestry chief is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation for having creamed off over L30 million into Swiss bank accounts in bribes from overseas timber importers, in exchange for access to wood at discounted prices. Our evidence indicates that similar high‐level corruption has continued since his downfall. - There are major ongoing province‐wide criminal corruption investigations relating to two of the three largest timber producing regions. The head of forestry in another province, in the Ukrainian Carpathians, was caught red‐handed in a sting operation in October 2017 trying to bribe police to turn a blind eye to widespread illegalities. Corruption at the district level in sales of timber for domestic processing, meanwhile, is feeding a growing 'shadow lumber' industry of over 12,000 illegal sawmills. - The EU is by far the largest destination for Ukrainian wood exports, representing 70 per cent of the total. EU purchases have been rising rapidly, breaking L1 billion in 2017. Our findings suggest that at least 40 per cent of this wood was harvested or traded illegally, with the aid of corruption. They also indicate that Ukraine is the largest single supplier of such high‐risk wood to the EU, exceeding all of the tropical countries of Latin America, Africa and SE Asia combined. > The EU buyers of Ukrainian wood include many of the world’s largest multinational wood processing companies. We found many of these companies are mentioned in ongoing criminal investigations relating to illegal logging, illegal wood exports and related corruption. One has even been specifically implicated in the corrupt scheme masterminded by the former forest chief. All of them continue to import large volumes of wood from state logging enterprises which are the subject of such investigations. - Products produced by these companies, potentially tainted with Ukrainian wood of illegal origin, are to be found on sale throughout the EU, including in branches of the largest DIY, furniture and supermarket chains on the continent. - The EU has long recognised that its huge demand for cheap wood has in the past helped drive illegality in the forests of supplier countries. As a result, since 2013, it has had a law in place which is meant to prevent wood imports of likely illegal origin. But our findings reveal that for Ukraine this law is not working. Authorities in key Member States are failing to meaningfully enforce it. Its impact is also being undermined by false confidence being placed by buyers and authorities in the independent 'certification' of forests by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). - Brave activists in Ukraine are battling timber corruption at significant personal risk, as are progressive elements within the government. Some European officials are making real efforts to help. But under pressure from the giant firms dependent on steady supplies of cheap Ukrainian wood, the EU has used its greatest leverage to push the Ukrainian government to overturn its ban on exports of raw logs. Details: London: Earthsight, 2018. 63p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed Dec. 7, 2018 at: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/624187_b18651c93cce4e1d8fce83e9b922c871.pdf Year: 2018 Country: Ukraine Keywords: Environmental Crime Shelf Number: 153941 |