People-centered Justice in Ukraine: Virtual Series

Building an understanding of people-centered justice across the justice sector in Ukraine and applying it to the Ukrainian context.

The first national consultation on people-centered justice took place on 17 November 2020. It was Convened by The Ukrainian Access to Justice School of Practice, the USAID Ukraine New Justice Program, the Legal Development Network and Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies.

Keynote Speaker: Allyson Maynard-Gibson, Former Attorney-General and Minister for Legal Affairs of the Bahamas, Member, Task Force on Justice

Discussion with international experts: Dmitry Foremnyi, Justice Accelerator Head, Ukraine, HiiL;Gustavo Maurino, former National Director of Access to Justice in Argentina and
Sherpa of Task Force on Justice;Maha Jweied, CIC NYU Fellow, Former Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Access to Justice; Yevgen Poltenko, Executive Director, Legal Development Network

The second national consultation took place on 15 July 2021 and was convened by the the USAID Ukraine New Justice Program and the Pathfinders.

Speakers included: Maaike de Langen, Program Lead on Justice for All, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies; Liudmyla Grytsenko, Attorney, Member of the Working Group on Developing a Roadmap Addressing the People-Centered Justice Application in Gender-Based and Domestic Violence Cases; Kateryna Levchenko, Government Commissioner for Gender Equality Policy; Yevgen Poltenko, Executive Director, Legal Development Network; Olena  Konovalova, Deputy Director of the Department of Labor of the State Labor Service of Ukraine; Gustavo Maurino, Center on International Cooperation New York University Fellow, former National Director of Access to Justice in Argentina and Sherpa of Task Force on Justice; Maha Jweied, Center on International Cooperation New York University Fellow, Former Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Access to Justice; Natalia Petrova, Deputy Chief of Party, USAID New Justice Program; Andrew Solomon, Senior Rule of Law Advisor, USAID.

Read the outcome document for this series here: https://s42831.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/03/6c192f_a77bb2d49a114f07be6dffaf274dc095.pdf.