Two lectures were held as part of the COIL project “Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Conflict: Understanding these crimes and how gender bias negatively affects their investigation and prosecution”, implemented by the Hague University of Applied Sciences and Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University, by professors of the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University Halyna Tatarenko and Liubov Kotova. The lectures were devoted to a general overview of the situation in the context of the armed conflict in Ukraine, gender-based violence as a manifestation of gender inequality and human rights violations in the laws of armed conflict and international criminal law, in particular, consideration of gender-based crimes, including sexual crimes during the war in Ukraine, forms of conflict-related sexual violence, the system of documentation and investigation of cases of gender-based violence and regimes of accountability for sexual violence.
The lecture was joined by Christine Tremblay, a lecturer and researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Professor Olena Arsentieva, and students of The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University.
The project involves the joint work of students and teachers from both educational institutions in understanding human rights and their protection during armed conflict, gender bias and stigmatization of gender-based violence during conflict, and solving practical cases on these issues.