Challenges in adoption of domestic violence legislation in Ukraine and ensuring its effective implementation
Challenges in adoption of domestic violence legislation in Ukraine and ensuring its effective implementation

Summary/Abstract: Combating domestic violence and violence against women is important di-rection of the Gender Equality Policy and one of the priorities of the Ukrainian Government, reflected in the Action Plan on Implementation the Association Agreement between Ukraine and European Union, adopted by Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in October 2017, Government Decree #1106.Scientific interest to the domestic violence is connected with wide dissemination of domestic violence in Ukrainian society and necessity to find the ways to combat this crime. So, in 2018, the National Police of Ukraine has received 115,473 appeals related to domestic violence. The article is dedicated to the over-view of the main legislative documents, adopted by Ukrainian Government in 2018, the analysis of their practical implementation and formulation the main problems and obstacles in this area with the aim to propose the proper solution.The year 2018 has become a year of intensive legislative activity, developing and conducting training courses for different groups of specialists, public discussions around some legislative novel sand in formative campaigns aim fundraising awareness of different target group sand society in whole. As the result of this activity, Ukraine already has strong legislative basement to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence. At the same time, there are the problems on the way of implementation already adopted legislation. Among others author stresses the lack of resources, lack of knowledge and understanding the problem of domestic violence and violence against women, lack of institutional and individual capacity, and strong gender stereotypes among different categories of specialists and society in whole. The authors has concluded that intensive trainings for different groups of specialists are so important for effective implementation of adopted legislation and has presented the best practices of such activity.

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