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TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

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Torture and ill-treatment of children in Ukrainegarding human resources in institutions for juveniles, and the rules relating toemployee training, including human rights standards, medical aid to juvenileprisoners along with the appropriate regulations. The communication withgovernment agencies continues, because we have not received all necessaryinformation.30⇒ Section IIIWe prepared and sent requests for information on statistical data on complaintsof torture and brutal treatment, queries concerning allegations of tortureand ill-treatment in the context of juvenile justice and the results of theirinvestigation in detail according to the categories listed in section D of thesection “Methods and instruments of research” of Research plan worked outby UNISEF to the Ombudsman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Prosecutor-General’s Office of Ukraine, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, State PenitentiaryService of Ukraine, Ministry of Education of Ukraine. This informationwas processed and analyzed.⇒ Section IVFor this component of the research the following work was performed:1. The methods and instruments of research were adapted for Ukraine;the additional research instruments were suggested. The cooperation with localpartners was established and the network for the project was organized.2. With the assistance of the State Penitentiary Service the executor conductedworking trips to three correctional facilities for juveniles.3. The data (audio) of semi-structured interviews with persons servingsentences in correctional facilities for juveniles (sample of 20 persons in Kuriazh,Melitopol and Pryluky) were obtained. The interviews were conducted inaccordance with the requirements of the project, required instrument C1.4. The semi-structured interviews with 20 individuals released from institutionsof confinement that were under investigation and served a sentenceuntil they reached adulthood; after their release they live in the City of Kyiv,Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Chernihiv oblasts. The executor proposed optional instrumentC2.5. Four focus groups were conducted with the pupils of high schools (twoin Kyiv and two in Kharkiv, the total number of participants made 48 pupils);the executor proposed optional instrument C3.

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