As part of the initiative "Police-Community Interaction in Ukraine: Building Stakeholder Dialogue and Synergy" and at the invitation of Canada-Ukraine Police Development Project CUPDP, on December 3, 2021, research and teaching staff of the Faculty of Law took part in an online discussion "Combating Domestic Violence: interaction with different groups of the population ".
Speakers from Ukraine, Canada and the EU discussed Ukrainian and international experience in combating and preventing violence among vulnerable groups, told how to protect and ensure the safety of victims, invent new solutions for community safety to act to prevent violence, shared experiences mobile groups to respond to cases of domestic violence, etc.
Iryna Litvinova, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, made a report on the goals and objectives of the State Social Program for Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence and Gender-Based Violence until 2025, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on February 24, 2021.
“The program envisages improving the system of preventing and combating domestic and gender-based violence, introducing a systematic response to violence, providing victims with access to comprehensive services focused on their needs, and providing quality social services to victims of violence. It also envisages the formation of an intolerant attitude to violence in society, raising public awareness of the forms, manifestations, causes and consequences of domestic violence, providing each victim with information about his rights and opportunities to exercise such rights, "said the speaker.
Summing up, the participants concluded that one of the ways to improve the mechanism of preventing and combating domestic and gender-based violence in decentralization in Ukraine is to increase effective cooperation between central and local executive bodies, local governments and the public.