09:40 06.02.2017

EU to provide EUR 1.5 mln to improve ombudsman work

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EU to provide EUR 1.5 mln to improve ombudsman work

The European Union will provide EUR 1.5 million for improvement of operations of the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli has said.

He said at a press conference in Kyiv last week that stepping up the rule of law in Ukraine is one of the important tasks and conditions for cooperation under the requirements of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement. Anti-corruption measures in Ukraine should be successful, judicial reform should be conducted, free mass media should develop and human rights should be protected, he said. The EU will further promote the strengthening of the institutional potential of the Ombudsman Office to protect human rights. The budget of the project is EUR 1.5 million for 24 months, he said.

He said that specialists from Lithuania and Austria were involved into the project.

In turn, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Valeria Lutkovska said that the project will be revised jointly with the Ombudsman Office of Lithuania and BoltzmannInstitute in Austria.

She said that the project is aimed at providing for effective prevention of violation of human rights via strengthening of the potential of the ombudsman institute and bringing the institutional structure of the Secretariat and its internal procedures in line with international practices.

Lutkovska said that the program includes seminars, training events, exchange of practice and joint work on legal documents.

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