On April 15 at 15:30 we invite you to the webinar “How to ensure a fair trial in a war?” in partnership with the Media Initiative for Human Rights, USAID Ukraine – USAID Ukraine Human Rights in Action Program, Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union – UHHRU.

The speakers will analyse:

• the difficulties of ensuring equal access to justice of all participants of armed conflicts;
• the use of open source evidence in atrocities proceedings;
• the role of “judgments” rendered in non-recognised territories;
• other issues, which will help better understand not only how to guaranty fair trials in armed conflict but also how to make such proceedings an integral component of reconciliation.

Speakers:

• Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees, Swansea University;
• Dr. Gaiane Nuridzhanian, senior lecturer at Faculty of Law, NaUKMA;
• Judge Arkadiy Bushchenko, Criminal Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

Moderators:

• Maria Tomak, Coordinator, Media Initiative for Human Rights;
• Dr Kateryna Busol, Lawyer, Centre for Defence Strategies.

          REGISTRATION:

The event will be held in English and through the Zoom platform, simultaneous translation into Ukrainian will be provided.

If you would like to participate in the discussion and/or send your questions and comments to the Zoom chat, please register here: https://forms.gle/iezuUfFxGLNEsr7y5.

You can also follow the webinar on other platforms. The original English discussion will be broadcasted on the YouTube page of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union: https://cutt.ly/JcVI3Nc. 

The Ukrainian translation of the discussion will be broadcasted on the Facebook pages of the organisers: https://cutt.ly/3cVIDXI, https://cutt.ly/ecVIXiN.

For more information please contact Ms. Tamara Kharchylava, 068 515 33 80, [email protected].