Advocates are urged to join in helping Ukrainian refugees
Advocates who feel socially responsible and have the desire and ability to provide legal assistance to Ukrainian refugees can join the joint initiative of the Danish Refugee Council and the UNBA on the digital platform PravoVsim.
The project provides qualified legal assistance to Ukrainian citizens who have been forcibly displaced as a result of armed aggression, became refugees or persons under special protection.
The platform provides consultations in the following areas:
- internally displaced persons;
- social security programs;
- subsidy;
- employment issues;
- birth/death registration;
- Action and state electronic services;
- missing person (search, identification and declaration of death);
- access to medical care;
- access to education;
- family relations (divorce, maintenance, adoption, guardianship/custody, etc;)
- traveling abroad;
- rules for pet owners;
- housing, land and property (HLP);
- compensation for damaged or destroyed property;
- mortgages and loans;
- will and inheritance;
- mobilization/discharge from military service;
- rights and guarantees of veterans;
- support of entrepreneurial activity;
- regulation of volunteer activities and public organizations;
- Citizenship, temporary and permanent residence;
- search for temporary protection, asylum;
- restoration/receipt of personal documentation.
To participate in the project, please fill out the registration form. After that, you will be provided with methodological materials and access to the platform.
If you have any questions, please contact the project coordinator Oleksandr Chernykh (ua-sc@mail.unba.org.ua).
As a reminder, on April 24, Alix Françoise Marie Journou, the Chargé d'Affaires of the Danish Refugee Council in Ukraine, and Lidiya Izovitova, the President of UNBA, BCU, signed a memorandum of understanding.
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