A public discussion “What does ‘restoration of justice’ mean for women and girls affected by the armed conflict?” took place in Mariupol on May 30.

On May 30, 2018, the Eastern Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives, within the framework of activities of the Justice for Peace in the Donbass Coalition, with the support of the Government Commissioner for Gender Policy, organizes a public discussion in Mariupol on "Restoring Justice for Women and Girls, who suffered an armed conflict in eastern Ukraine".

On Friday, 1st December the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre held presentation event of analytics report titled “War without Rules: Gender-Based Violence in the Context of the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine”. During the presentation, the authors of the report revealed that there are over twenty places of illegal detention on the temporarily occupied territory. People who happened to be detained systematically and purposefully went through gender, namely sexual, violence.

Recently a presentation of graphic novel ‘The Crossroad: 9 Stories About the War and Violence’ took place at Start, former movie theatre in Toretsk. The publication is the first graphic novel in Ukraine, which tells about tough life stories of people in Crimea and Donbas living along both sides of the demarcation line.

Within the framework of ‘Use of evaluation processes for efficient management of united communities’ project we conducted two seminars. 24 participants from 7 regions of Ukraine participated in the event; we invited representatives of 8 communities and 8 evaluators from Ukraine, we made evaluation researches within 8 communities, and finally, we invited all concerned to join the conference titled ‘Efficient Communities Management Through Evaluation Processes’.

Today, on 20th December presentation of analytics report titled “War without Rules: Gender-Based Violence in the Context of the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine” took place at Siverskyi Donets Crisis Media Centre.

‘Use of Evaluation Processes for Efficient Management of United Communities’ conference took place On Monday 20th November in Kyiv, organized by the Democratic Society East (DSE) (Warsaw, Poland) and the East Ukrainian Centre for Civic Initiatives (Kyiv, Ukraine). Nearly 50 people from united territorial communities in the East of Ukraine participated in the conference. Some of the participants also took part in the ‘Use of Evaluation Processes for Efficient Management of United Communities’ project.