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TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

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Section 2Administrative standards and procedurestested in one of the educational institutions of the penitentiary service; aftertesting they were completed and printed in sufficient quantities.The active cooperation with a number of human rights organizations onissues of improving training in capacity building of personnel in the field ofhuman rights in prisons was carried out for two years. In 2012, the project“Training course on human rights for penitentiary system” involving a numberof human rights organizations was successfully completed with the financialsupport of the International Foundation “Vidrodzhennia”. “…This collaborationproduced a coherent set of teaching tools for training of prison staff:methodological textbook on curriculum and course lectures for efficiencytraining of penitentiary personnel “Human Rights in the Activity of PenitentiaryBodies and Agencies”, educational video “Relations of prison staff andinmates: requirements, standards, and prospects…” and methodologicaltextbook for the use of this video” 18 .The projects implemented jointly with international institutions and focuson European standards in the penal system allow to go beyond the old approachesto training and organizing the staff.Now the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine keeps in hand two universitiesand three employees training schools. There are also the Institute of PenitentiaryService and Chernihiv Law College of the State Penitentiary Service ofUkraine; the personnel of the service is professionally trained and upgradesits skills in Bila-Tserkva and Dniprodzerzhynsk schools of professional trainingof the staff of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine and Khmelnytsk schoolof skills upgrading and retraining of the personnel of the State PenitentiaryService of Ukraine.The syllabus of the institutions of higher education of the State PenitentiaryService of Ukraine includes: civil and family law, administrative law, criminallaw, penal law, criminology, criminal procedure, penitentiary pedagogy andpsychology, social pedagogy, theory of education, character building and organizationand labor protection of prisoners. Also, the training program includesa number of subjects dealing with the treatment of juvenile convicts.These disciplines comprise 27 topics that cover the following main areasand issues:— Personal rights and duties of parents and children. Agencies of guardianship.18 Ibid.95

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