Public statement of the legal aid system team on violation of basic principles during the competition for the position of the Director of the Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Respect for dignity, transparency and accountability and nonpartisanship are the values that the legal aid system has been fighting for over last five years. We have won public trust and the right to exist during the Revolution of Dignity when we were practically the only public institution protecting the rights of civil activists.

We believe that the way the competition for the selection of the new Director of the Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision was held undermines basic principles underlying our work, ruins trust in the system and ultimately deprives hundreds of thousands of people, our customers, of the right to justice. This is an outrage upon dignity and human rights.

The legal aid system in Ukraine is an institution that serves citizens of Ukraine. It is financed by taxpayers and is accountable primarily to society. We do not have the right to allow for even the slightest doubt in our values and cannot let ruin something that took arduous work and a lot of efforts to build trust for. We consider this fight our personal Revolution of Dignity for millions of citizens we serve.

We appeal to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with a proposal concerning:

- cancellation of the results of the competition;

- change of the procedure of appointment of the Director of the Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision to the transfer appropriate powers to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;

- a new objective and transparent competition with the balanced participation of human rights organizations and international partners, in particular, using an already existing practice of public competitions in the legal aid system;

- professional public discussions to enhance the independence of the legal aid system and minimize political influence on it, which should be followed by decision making by the Government of Ukraine.

We turn to the public with a call to protect and preserve the system of legal aid in Ukraine.

For the day (04 June 2017) 222 team members of the Centre, 64 Centres for Free Secondary Legal Aid Provision, and 52 non-governmental and human rights organisations supported the free legal aid system in Ukraine.

The Public statement was supported by the staff members of the Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision and free secondary legal aid centers (by name):

Nadiia Kyzytska - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Nataliia Kostyshyn - Chervonograd Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olena Poloz - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Svitlana Klishyna - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Odessa Oblast Olena Yalova - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Liudmyla Yatsuba - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Yaroslav Hetmanskyi - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Nataliia Marchuk - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Vita Feshchenko - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Andrii Onishchenko - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Maryna Luhynia - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Oleh Aliekseev - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Anastasiia Chychkan - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Oleh Antonets - Second Mykolaiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Yurii Antoniuk - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Andrii Arkhipov - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Anastasiia Artsymovych - Second Odessa Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olena Babych - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oksana Bankova - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Oleksandr Baranov - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Olha Berezovska - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Yevhenii Blashchuk - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Volyn Oblast

Yana Bohdanova - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Luhansk and Kharkiv Oblasts

Yuliia Bolhak - Second Mykolaiv Center for Local Free Secondary Legal Aid

Liudmyla Bondar - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Iryna Bondarenko - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Mariia Bondarenko-Tsymerman - Beryslav Local Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Anatolii Borodavka - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Luhansk and Kharkiv Oblasts

Lesia Burchak - First Kyiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Valentyna Verbytska - Kremenets Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Vasyl Kovalchuk - Kovel Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Yana Velhan - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Aliona Vynohradets - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olena Vovniuk - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Volodymyr Koval - Bohodukhiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleh Vrublevskyi - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Svitlana Haievska - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleksandr Harbovskyi - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Olena Herasymenko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Oleksandr Herbeda - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Valentyna Honcharuk - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Liudmyla Honcharuk - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Tetiana Hordiienko - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Tetiana Horodenska - Second Kyiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Volodymyr Hoshovskyi - Second Lviv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Tetiana Hryshchenko - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Yurii Husarevych - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Yulia Daniuk - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oksana Dziubenko - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Dmytro Krasovskyi - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Tetiana Dmukhovska - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Vadym Domanskyi - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Dubchak - Khust Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Mykhailo Yevchuk - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Inha Yehorova - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Maryna Yelysieieva - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Kherson Oblast

Mariia Yemelianenko - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Oksana Yermakova - Beryslav Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Iryna Zavatska - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Maksym Zavirskyi - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Zaitseva - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Svitlana Zdryliuk - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Olena Zubko - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Diana Zubrytska - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Maksym Ilchyshen - Kamianets-Podilskyi Local Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Ruslana Ilchuk - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Olena Ipatenko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Kherson Oblast

Barbara Kaliuzhna - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Olha Kysil-Hevorhian - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleksandr Koval - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Volodymyr Kovalchuk - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Maryna Kovalchuk - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Kovalchuk - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Svitlana Kovtun - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Nataliia Kozhemiaka - First Kryvyi Rih Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Yuliia Kozachenko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Poltava Oblast

Faina Kozyreva - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Olena Kozlovska - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Iryna Kolesnyk - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Mykhailo Konoz - Bohodukhiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Korkach - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Yaroslav Korol - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oksana Kosonog - Pavlograd Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Kateryna Kryvoshei - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Svitlana Kryzhanivska - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Kropyvnytska - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olha Kudrytska - Lutsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Vadym Kulybaba - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Maryna Kuratova - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Mariia Kurdysh - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Viktor Kusiak - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Bohdan Kushnir - Second Kyiv Local Centre for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleksandr Levchenko - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Lytvynenko - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Liliia Tsupiak - Ivano-Frankivsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Lina Serhiieva - First Dnipropetrovsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Maryna Lukiianova - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Vinnytsia Oblast

Oleksii Liutyk - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Chernivtsi Oblast

Vitalii Liamichev - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Maksym Magda - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Kherson Oblast

Svitlana Malinovska - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Maryna Hrusha - Beryslav Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Mariia Hambal - Chortkiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleh Matviienko - First Mykolaiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Liudmyla Matsiuk - Vyzhnytsia Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Melnyk - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oksana Melnyk - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleksandra Melnyk - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Hanna Meredova - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Serhii Merzliakov - Kotovsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Ihor Mykytyn - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Lviv Oblast

Arkadii Muntianu - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Chernivtsi Oblast

Uliana Matsko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Lviv Oblast

Mykola Osmak - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Mykola Pavliuk - Sarny Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Denys Mylokostyi - Kherson Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Myroslav Lavrinok - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Olha Mohylevets - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Kostryba - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Nataliia Smoliarchuk - Volodymyr-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleksandr Nevdovychenko - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleksii Nevmerzhytskyi - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Anna Nekrut - Third Kharkiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Viacheslav Novikov - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Yurii Obodzinskyi - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oksana Vasyliaka - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in the City of Kyiv

Iryna Radchenko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in the City of Kyiv

Oksana Kosonog - Pavlohrad Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleh Matvienko - First Mykolaiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleksandr Hryb - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Olena Shliker - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Mykolaiv Oblast

Vitalii Olifer - Second Dnipropetrovsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olha Sokolenko - Beryslav Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olha Borodina - First Zaporizhia Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Serhii Orliuk - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Inesa Mkhitarian - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Odessa Oblast

Yevheniia Titomer - First Odessa Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Maksym Ilchyshen - Kamianets-Podilskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nelia Osauliuk - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Daryna Pavlova - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid Zoia Parii - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Yuliia Pariichuk - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Vadym Tverdokhlib - Second Odessa Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Zhanna Pasenko - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Viktoriia Dobrianska - Beryslav Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Petro Peleshok - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Alla Peretiatko - Second Odessa Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Viktor Pivtorak - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Larysa Pikanovska - Vinnytsia Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Povarchuk - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Polishchuk - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olena Poloz - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Yaroslav Protsenko - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Aliona Piatnytska - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Vitalii Radzyvil - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Radushynska - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Olha Rybak - Holovanivsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Serhii Rovnenko - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Rostyslav Rosolovskyi - First Kharkiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Artem Rossokha - Lubny Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Rostyslav Rudenko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Volyn Oblast

Yurii Rudykh - Third Kyiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Yaroslav Savchuk - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Alla Sadurska - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Ihor Sapatsinskyi - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Olha Saskina - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Yana Sauliak - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Vinnytsia Oblast

Oksana Serhiienko - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Serhii Breus - Fourth Kyiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Serhii Lysak - Dniprodzerzhynsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Serhii Lysak - Dniprodzerzhynsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olha Sikorska - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olena Sinchuk - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Anton Skyba - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Stanislav Skits - Cherkasy Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Zosia Slavytska - Ismail Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Victoriia Smerek - Kolomyia Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid Olha Solomka - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Anastasiia Stepanenko - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Stets - Vinnytsia Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olena Tarasenko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Yanina Tarasova - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Oleksii Tertyshnyi - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Yurii Tychyna - Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Artem Tkachenko - Starobilsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Victoriia Tohunova - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Serhii Trotsenko - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Valentyna Troshechko - Sumy Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Faina Kozyrieva - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Fedir Lysetskyi - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Tamara Kozyr - Okhtyrka Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Iryna Voloshyna - Beryslav Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Larysa Fuchko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zakarpattia Oblast

Yurii Kharchuk - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Mariia Khomenko - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Tetiana Tsalko - Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Inna Tsyhanok - Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Olesia Chavurska - Kakhovka Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Andrii Cheshkov - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast

Aliona Chyzhevska - Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Valentyn Chystyi - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Mykolaiv Oblast

Iryna Protchenko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Chernihiv Oblast

Vasyl Danyshchuk - Chernivtsi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Valentyna Volik - Konotop Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Nataliia Dramaretska - Koziatyn Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Oleh Kononenko - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Ternopil Oblast

Diana Babaian - Haisyn Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Diana Zubrytska - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision

Olena Kachura - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Donetsk and Zaporizhia Oblasts Anna Huz - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Veronika Rybak - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Chernihiv Oblast Larysa Abolonchykova - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Kherson Oblast Daria Bozhniuk - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Vinnytsia Oblast

Daria Nefiodova-Lepina - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Donetsk and Zaporizhia Oblasts

Victor Kikkas - Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Kyiv Oblast Iryna Potapenko - Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision Oksana Siryk - Bila Tserkva Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

The Public statement was supported by the staff members of free secondary legal aid

centers:

■ Vinnytsia Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Haisyn Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Koziatyn Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Tomashpil Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Lutsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Second Dnipropetrovsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Second Kryvyi Rih Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Pavlohrad Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ First Kryvyi Rih Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Berdychiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Zhytomyr Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Korosten Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Novohrad-Volynskyi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ First Kyiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Third Kyiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Fourth Kyiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Sievierodonetsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Starobilsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Chervonohrad Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Voznesensk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Second Mykolaiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Artsyz Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Izmail Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Kotovsk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Konotop Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Okhtyrka Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Sumy Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Kremenets Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Bohodukhiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Pervomaisk Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Third Kharkiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Beryslav Local Centre for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Hola Prystan Local Centre for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Kakhovka Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Kherson Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Uman Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Cherkasy Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Vyzhnytsia Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Kelmentsi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Chernivtsi Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Mena Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Nizhyn Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

■ Chernihiv Local Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid

Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Odessa Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Vinnytsia Oblast Regional Center for F ree Secondary Legal Aid in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Donetsk and Zaporizhia Oblasts Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zhytomyr Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Luhansk and Kharkiv Oblasts Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Mykolaiv Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in the City of Kyiv Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Sumy Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Ternopil Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Kherson Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Khmelnytskyi Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Chernivtsi Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Chernihiv Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Zakarpattia Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Kirovohrad Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Lviv Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Poltava Oblast Regional Center for Free Secondary Legal Aid in Rivne Oblast

The Public statement was supported by NGOs in regions of Ukraine:

■ CO “Charitable Foundation Center “Development”, Vinnytsia

■ NGO “Vinnytsia Press Club”, Vinnytsia

■ NGO “Centre “Podolia Socium”, Vinnytsia

■ NGO “Podolia Centre for Human Rights”, Vinnytsia

■ Vinnytsia Local Organisation “Ukrainian Bar Association”, Vinnytsia

■ Vinnytsia branch of NGO “National Association of Lawyers Providing Legal Aid’

■ Vinnytsia branch of Ukrainian Bar Association, Vinnytsia

■ Zhytomyr branch of NGO “National Association of Lawyers Who Provide Free Legal Aid”,

■ UN Development Program “Rule of Law for Stabilization in Ukraine”, Zhytomyr

■ Zhytomyr local youth NGO “Parytet” (Parity), Zhytomyr

■ NGO “XXI Generation”, Zhytomyr

■ NGO “Atoshnyk”, Novohrad-Volynskyi

■ NGO “La Strada Ukraine”, Kyiv

■ NGO “Labor Initiatives”, Kyiv

■ Ukrainian Bar Academy, Kyiv

■ European University, Kyiv

■ NGO “Volunteer Platform”, Kryvyi Rih

■ NGO “Kryvyi Rih countrymen”, Kryvyi Rih

■ Kryvyi Rih Human Rights Association, Kryvyi Rih

■ Agency for the Sustainable Development of Zhovti Vody, Zhovti Vody

■ RedHub, Zhovti Vody

■ Aid Centre for ATO participants and members of their families of the K. Karamanits Charitable Foundation, Zhovti Vody

■ Centre for Social and Legal Initiatives, Zhovti Vody

■ Dnopropetrovsk branch of NGO “National Association of Lawyers Who Provide Free Legal Aid”, Dnipro

■ NGO “Youth Initiative Centre”, Chervonohrad

■ NGO “Social Perspective”, Chervonohrad

■ NGO “Perspective - Plus”, Dobrotvir

■ NGO “Association of Socalshchyna Councils”, Socal

■ Charitable Foundation “Karitas - Socal”, Socal

■ Lviv branch of NGO “National Association of Lawyers Who Provide Free Legal Aid”, Lviv

■ Rozdilna NGO of Ukrainian national organisation of people with disabilities “Association of the Organisation of People with Disabilities”, Rozdilna

■ Odessa branch of NGO "National Association of Lawyers Who Provide Free Legal Aid”, Odessa

■ NGO "Learning and Teaching Centre for the Protection of Human Rights”, Mykolaiv

■ NGO "Analytical Human Rights Association "Vykryvach”, Mykolaiv

■ Mykolaiv branch of NGO "National Association of Lawyers Who Provide Free Legal Aid”, Mykolaiv

■ NGO "Anti-Corruption Monitoring”, Rivne

■ NGO "Crimea Expat Community of Rivne Region”, Rivne

■ Rivne branch of NGO "National Association of Lawyers Who Provide Free Legal Aid”, Rivne

■ NGO "Konotop Community Association”, Konotop

■ NGO "League for Protection”, Sumy

■ Sumy branch of NGO "National Association of Lawyers Who Provide Free Legal Aid”, Sumy

■ NGO "Civic Centre "Time”, Chernihiv

■ "Chernihiv Public Committee for Human Rights Protection”, Chernihiv

■ NGO "Creative Initiative "Theatrum Mundi”, Chernihiv

■ NGO "Legal Clinic "Bona Monte”, Chernihiv

■ NGO "MART”, Chernihiv

■ Bar association "Ukrpravozakhyst”, Chernihiv

■ Chernihiv branch of NGO "National Association of Lawyers Who Provide Free Legal Aid”, Chernihiv

■ Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Kharkiv

■ NGO "Information Resource Centre "Legal Space”, Kherson

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