Training "The crime of genocide worh a focus on the forced transfer of children and direct and public incitement to genocide" for the Office of the Prosecutor General

On April 6-7, 2023, in partnership with the Prosecutor`s Training Center of Ukraine and The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, we conducted a training "The Crime of Genocide. Forced transfer of children and incitement" for the Office of the Prosecutor General.

The training was devoted to the following topics:

  • conceptual understanding of the constituent elements of the crime of genocide;
  • specifics of investigating the crime of genocide in Bosnia and Cambodia;
  • the difference between genocide and other grave international crimes;
  • incitement to genocide as a separate crime, comparison of national and international standards;
  • displacement of children as an act of genocide.
A workshop was also held to develop strategic communication skills on topics related to the crime of genocide.

Trainers:

  • Anna Vyshniakova - legal analyst, head of the NGO "LingvaLexa";
  • Joseph Andrew Boyle - Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia;
  • Patricia Walen - former judge in the Bosnian genocide trials;
  • Kateryna Busol - lawyer, senior lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy;
  • Jocelyn Heigen Kestenbaum - Faculty Director of the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights at the Cardozo School of Law;
  • Inna Zavorotko - representative of the Legal Support Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.