Project profile — LGBTI Inclusive Police Training Program in Ukraine

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased skills of the National Police of Ukraine at addressing crimes against LBGTI people in an appropriate and sensitive manner; (2) increased recognition and awareness by decision-makers of human rights violations carried out against LGBTI persons; and (3) increased knowledge of civil society organizations on promoting human rights of LGBTI persons and engaging with law enforcement bodies.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (June 2023) include: (1) developed a human rights training curriculum on inclusive policing focusing on hate crime investigation. It aims to challenge bias-motivated crimes of homophobia and transphobia directed against lesbian transgender and intersex, gay, bisexual (LGBTI) populations in Ukraine; (2) trained 74 police investigators in six full-day human rights and inclusion workshops; (3) developed and transferred an e-curriculum for police academies, titled “A Human Rights Approach to Policing: An Introduction to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) -Based Discrimination and Protections” to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine; (4) developed a hate crime investigation handbook titled "An Introduction to SOGIESC-Based Discrimination and Human Rights Protection in Policing". It aims to systemically strengthen hate crime investigation and prosecution against LGBTI communities in Ukraine; and (5) provided immediate support to members of LGBTI communities in response to the full-scale invasion. This led to relocating 16 people, providing 18 persons access to safe spaces and shelters, and providing 32 individuals with psychosocial support .