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Petition against sexual harassment
A strong and professional army can only exist with respect for personal boundaries and human dignity. Therefore, the systematic counteraction to sexual harassment and gender-based violence in the military sphere should finally take place. Currently, the Ukrainian army has one of the highest rates of enlisted women — more than 62,000 served in the army alongside men, but sexual harassment issues in the military remain unresolved. It is important to note that not only women suffer from sexual harassment, but also men. According to the "Monitoring of recommendations and research results[...]
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20.03.2024
Statement and Details of Bill No. 9637
Yesterday, on August 21, 2023, members of parliament registered Bill No. 9637, which proposes an updated definition of the statuses of war veterans. Today, the Committee on Social Policy and Veterans' Rights issued its conclusion and recommends to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to include the bill in the agenda, designate it as urgent, and shorten the deadlines for submitting alternative bills. We, a community of expert civil organizations in the field of veterans' affairs, express our professional disagreement with the logic of defining veterans' experience proposed by the authors of the[...]
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22.08.2023
"Profiles of missing persons" in The Hague
Throughout Ukraine, as a result of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, thousands of people, both civilians and military, are considered missing. Anna Demydenko, representative of the Women's Veterans Movement and our partners LEGAL HUNDRED, gave a speech yesterday in The Hague as part of the panel discussion "Profiles of the missing: Voices of the Ukrainian families of the missing", organized by the International Commission on Missing Persons - ICMP , with the aim of focusing on the experience of the families of the missing in the context of the war in Ukraine. During[...]
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21.06.2023