“Human Rights Protection in Ukraine: Current State and Prospects for Improvement”

On December 10, 2021, Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law hosted a scientific and practical round table entitled “Human Rights Protection in Ukraine: Current State and Prospects for Improvement,” dedicated to the 73rd anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The co-organizers of the round table were Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law; the Educational and Research Laboratory for the Study of Public Administration and Decentralization of Power at the Research Institute of State Building and Local Government of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; the Eurasian Association of Law Schools and Lawyers; and the Khmelnytskyi Regional Branch of the Ukrainian Bar Association.
The participants were welcomed by:
-    Iryna Bronislavivna Kovtun, First Vice-Rector of Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law, Candidate of Sciences in Public Administration, Associate Professor;
-    Viktor Ivanovych Kychun, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor;
-    Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Bukhanevych, Head of the Educational and Research Laboratory for the Study of Public Administration and Decentralization of Power at the Research Institute of State Building and Local Government of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Doctor of Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine;
-    Tetiana Viktorivna Spiridonova, President of the Khmelnytskyi Court of Appeal;
-    Olena Oleksandrivna Yakoviuk, Acting Head of the Central-Western Interregional Department of the Ministry of Justice, First Deputy Head of the Department and Representative of the Government Commissioner for the Affairs of the European Court of Human Rights.
The following speakers participated in the round table:
-    Viktor Ivanovych Kychun, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor;
-    Mykhailo Vasylovych Kostytskyi, Professor of the Department of Philosophy of Law and Legal Logic at the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Doctor of Law, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine;
-    Viktor Mykolaiovych Beschastnyi, Head of the Secretariat of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Doctor of Law, Doctor of Public Administration, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine;
-    Oksana Mykolaivna Kizaieva, Regional Representative of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in Khmelnytskyi Region;
-    Fedir Mykhailovych Medvid, Professor of the Department of Theory of State and Law and Constitutional Law at the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Doctor of Political Science, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor;
-    Olena Oleksandrivna Yakoviuk, Acting Head of the Central-Western Interregional Department of the Ministry of Justice (Khmelnytskyi), First Deputy Head of the Department and Representative of the Government Commissioner for the Affairs of the European Court of Human Rights;
-    Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Mykhailov, Deputy President of the Khmelnytskyi District Administrative Court, postgraduate student of the Department of Constitutional, Administrative and Financial Law of Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law;
-    Nadiia Leontiivna Bondarenko-Zelinska, Member of the Council of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Branch of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure at Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor;
-    Olha Anatoliivna Chorna, Acting Director of the Regional Center for the Provision of Free Secondary Legal Aid in Khmelnytskyi Region;
-    Yevhenii Yaroslavovych Martyniuk, Prosecutor of the Kirovohrad Regional Prosecutor’s Office, postgraduate student of the Department of Law and Law Enforcement Activities at Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University;
-    Andrii Mykolaiovych Zelinskyi, Chief Specialist of the Department of State Control over the Circulation of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices, Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors of the State Service of Ukraine on Medicines and Drugs Control in Khmelnytskyi Region.
The round table was also attended by representatives of state authorities and local self-government bodies, law enforcement agencies, the legal profession, and human rights organizations, as well as academic and teaching staff from higher education institutions and research institutions of Ukraine and the Republic of Poland.
We sincerely thank all participants for their insightful presentations and fruitful discussion!