Protection of Children against Domestic Violence

Abstract

Master thesis is devoted to study of issue of protection of children from domestic violence starting from the international level to the national level of Ukraine. The main objectives of the thesis were to analyse United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Istanbul and Lanzarote Conventions, ECHR, European Union legislation together with Ukraininan legislation and to identify the main problems of system of protection form domestic violence in Ukraine. Furthermore, to find wether Ukraine complice with the international and European standarts. The research has shown that despite the positive changes that Ukrainian legislation has undergone in recent years, it together with the enforsment measures do not fully comply with international and European standards and should be improved. In particular, the importance of ratifying the Istanbul Convention was emphasized. It was also identified and analyzed the problem of judicial practice in cases of separation of the child with a family and application of fines as penalties for domestic violence. Besides, the study showed that Ukraine does not provides the possibility of triggering investigation ex parte and ex officio of criminal offence connected with domestic violence.