#HeroesofUkraine: advocacy expert answers three questions on LGBT+ and human rights in wartime

Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine is a war against a sovereign country but also a war against the values of openness and diversity that the EU is defending and promoting

Statement by the High Representative Josep Borrell on the shelling of the EU Advisory Mission Field office

Today, the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM) has obtained credible information that the premises of its Mariupol Field Office were recently hit by Russian shelling. The EUAM office and equipment sustained major damage. No Mission members or contractors were injured.

Ukraine: Statement by the High Representative on the targeting of civilians by Russia

The European Union condemns in the strongest possible terms the Russian Armed Forces and their proxies continued targeting of Ukraine’s civilian population and civilian infrastructure, as well as their siege of the city of Mariupol.

HR/VP: The future of Europe is being defined now

Last Tuesday we had an important debate in the European Parliament about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the European response.

#AgentsofChange – Vadym Fursa, Senior Lecturer of the Tactical Special Department of the Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs (DSUIA)

#AgentsofChange – Andrii Kruhliak, Senior Sergeant in the National Guard of Ukraine

“My name is Andrii Kruhliak, and I work as a Senior Sergeant in the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU). I chose to become a guardsman in 2015 after the country called me for my military service. I started working in Kyiv and, back then, there were mass gatherings almost every day. I was taking part […]

#AgentsofChange – Gete Markussen, EUAM Senior Adviser on Good Governance & Human Resources

“I am a member of the EU Advisory Mission’s mobile unit, and I have been travelling to several regions across Ukraine. During these deployments, I have encountered the challenges that the National Police face in transforming central policies from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MoIA) into the regional context. The primary mission of the Mobile […]

#AgentsofChange – Carla Costa, EUAM Senior Adviser on General Policing

“I am a Senior Police Officer from Portugal, and my country seconded me to work in the EU Advisory Mission (EUAM) as Senior Advisor on General Policing since June 2021. I joined the Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP; Public Security Police) in 1994 and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna […]

Two young women activists create an innovative solution to bring awareness to domestic violence

Two women working for the La Strada-Ukraine NGO, Valeriia Bondar (psychologist) and Tetiana Kharkivska (social manager) took the opportunity of the “Hack for locals 3.0” initiative to register their digital project under the codename “Girls Power”

#16DaysofActivism: Putting an end to gender-based violence by empowering women and standing with survivors

No matter their gender, all people deserve to live in peace, free from fear and injury, confident that their lives are not in danger, and have the space and means to develop their full potential

#AgentsofChange – Lesia Yaroshenko, Communications Manager, Ukrainian Women’s Fund

“When I was 9, I published my first newspaper – single-copy, hand-written and hand-drawn – about stories that took place in my class one day. Later, I started sharing my notes with a children’s newspaper. There, one staff member gave me an IREX leaflet on journalistic investigations. The hero of the publication, an American journalist, […]

#AgentsofChange – Liliia Maliarchuk, EUAM Parliamentary Liaison Officer

“I grew up in a small community where I, on an everyday basis, observed the many obstacles people face when it comes to the protection of their rights. Many people from my community either did not know their rights or faced severe unfairness with the State trying to exercise them. It all contributed to inequality, […]

#AgentsofChange – Borys Hrachov, Head of the Paralegals Networks, NGO Alliance Global

“All my public awareness started at the Revolution of Dignity, in 2013. I was only turning 18 and it profoundly affected me. During all the events on Maidan, I volunteered as medical staff. This experience made me meet many people in the civil society sector, mostly human rights activists. At this moment in my life, […]

#ObverseandReverse: Prosecutorial reform, the two sides of the coin

Today we are starting a new series of interviews, ‘Obverse and Reverse’, where we invite a representative from the establishment, on the one hand, and an expert from civil society on the other, to show that besides coming from different backgrounds, they often have more in common than differences. This episode is dedicated to prosecutorial […]

Opinion: International Advisory Group on Reform of the Security Service of Ukraine

Ukraine is facing a historic opportunity to advance its Euro-Atlantic path