On the eighth of December 2021 on the occasion of the All-Ukrainian Law Week, students and teaching staff of the Faculty of Law met with Olena Stepanenko, a representative of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights and a member of the Faculty's Employers' Council.
Opening the intervention, the Dean of the Faculty Iryna Sopilko congratulated its participants and paid tribute to the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for cooperation having mentioned that under the signed Memorandum of Cooperation at the Faculty the Information and Education Center will begin its work, the goal of which is to conducting law-education work among young people.
Representative of the Commissioner for Social and Economic Rights Olena Stepanenko told the participants about the work of the Ombudsman Institute, which main task is exercising parliamentary control over the observance of constitutional rights and freedoms man and citizen, revealed the specifics of the activity, revealed the specifics of the Secretariat, the procedure for submission appeals and the mechanism of their consideration by the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights. "For eleven months of work of the Office of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Rights we received 61,000 appeals from Ukrainian citizens about their violation constitutional rights, last year - 48 thousand, so public faith in us, however, the downside is that this figure is indicator of violation of citizens' rights by the judiciary, bodies local self-government, educational institutions, healthcare, employers, etc. " Mrs. Olena remarked.
At the end of the meeting, a representative of the Commissioner for Social and Economic Affairs rights asked research and teaching staff of the faculty to active lawmaking participation, with a goal of bringing the legislation of Ukraine on human rights and freedoms and citizen in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, international standards in this industry, and students before the internship on the basis of the Secretariat Commissioner.