Executive Summary “Rule of Law and Occupied Territories of Donbas and Crimea”
10 december 2018
The Report “Rule of Law and Occupied Territories of Donbas and Crimea” was prepared as a result of special research conducted by the experts of the Center in 2018 within the Project “Local Self-Government and the Rule of Law in Ukraine” conducted by the Folke Bernadotte Academy financed by the Swedish Agency on International Cooperation and Development (SIDA).
The report has focused on the following spheres:
- civil state changes (birth, death, marriage, divorce) registration;
- obtaining passports;
- conducting entrepreneurial activity and protecting property rights;
- educational rights;
- citizens’ social security.
The authors have proposed improvements to legislation regarding the protection of internally displaced persons and Ukrainian citizens residing on the territories temporarily out of Ukrainian control, as well as to practice of its application by local government authorities and local self-government bodies specifically via public (administrative) services provision.
The summary is addressed to representatives of public administration bodies, primarily self-government authorities, law-enforcement bodies, international and national NGOs (mainly those focused on human rights protection), judges, political scientists, legal drafting specialists, including those on local level.