"Form" ugliness overcome. Where should victims of domestic violence turn to?

Yuri Chumak

Head to the Center of Legal and Political Affairs "DUMA"

Human rights activists, with the assistance of the government's gender policy commissioner, forced the Ministry of Social Policy to develop a document that allows victims of domestic violence to receive free secondary legal aid.

And it all started with a documentary about human rights. More precisely, from the DOCU ACTS Against Psychological Violence Against Children advocacy campaign, which the Docudays UA THINK! film club implemented in March – July 2021 in the Chuhuiv city territorial community of the Kharkiv region.

And in the course of communication with police officers, social services, and teachers, we found that there was a legal problem (at the national level!) in the implementation of the mechanism of interaction of subjects involved in measures to prevent and combat domestic violence: there was no form of referral of victims to the center for free secondary legal aid.