Markiyan Bem, a partner at Nazar Kulchytskyy and Partners Law Firm and an expert for the Council of Europe on the practices of the European Court of Human Rights, participated in a training session for 30 investigators from the National Police from 13 regions of Ukraine.
The training took place on November 5-6 in Lviv as part of the Council of Europe project “Strengthening Law Enforcement in Ukraine During and After the War,” with beneficiaries including the National Police of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the State Bureau of Investigations.
The training content focused on covering topics such as:
- ● The European Court of Human Rights case law on armed conflicts where the Russian Federation has been the driving force;
- ● Protection of life, territorial control, practical investigation, and accountability;
- ● The distinction between internal armed conflicts and international armed conflicts;
- ● Sources of international humanitarian law and the role of The Hague Conventions in regulating armed conflict;
- ● Sources of international criminal law, the Rome Statute, and its implementation into national legislation;
- ● The gravest international crimes and their characteristics, types of war crimes through the lens of real-life cases;
- ● Legal qualifications of war crimes through contemporary real-life stories;
- ● Specifics of proving war crimes, including the elements of a war crime and its legal reasoning;
- ● Mechanisms for compensation of damages caused by armed conflict;
- ● Mechanisms for holding individuals accountable for the gravest international crimes: types, establishment features, and international experience.
We thank the organizers for the invitation and for allowing us to consistently share expertise to improve the effectiveness of law enforcement agencies.
Last year, Markiyan Bem also joined the training as an expert. He participated in the “Standards and Obligations Under International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: War Crimes and Severe Human Rights Violations in the Context of the War in Ukraine” training, which was attended by police officers from 15 regions and Kyiv.
The training aimed to develop police officers’ skills in analyzing everyday cases, considering the standards and constraints of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
