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We will focus specifically on creative educational institutions, where, for example, a choreography teacher can grab a female student by the waist – wouldn’t that be considered harassment? In general, what are the signs of harassment and can they be identified without context? Who should monitor in practice to ensure that this doesn’t happen? Who can students complain to? How willing is society to talk about and hear about such cases? How can a teacher protect themselves from unfair …

What to do if you have experienced violence? Contact the police on 102 or with a written statement to the office in your region. When you call 102, you can ask for a special mobile domestic violence police team (if available in your area/community) to come. Upon request, the group can issue an urgent restraining order - a document that prohibits the offender from staying at the place of residence and...

Alyona Kryvulyak, director of the National Hotlines department, talks about the situation with domestic violence in Ukraine during the pandemic for KyivPost.

During the period of quarantine due to the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, Ukrainians began to turn to domestic violence hotlines more often for help. Alyona Kryvulyak, director of the department of national "hot" lines and social assistance of the NGO "La Strada-Ukraine", told in an interview with Glavred about what provokes people to domestic violence and what problems they face for help, to whom violence is most often used, how they react to the calls of victims to law enforcement agencies, how to protect yourself from uncontrolled aggression and whether the number of cases will decline after the end of the quarantine.

Domestic violence in quarantine: how to avoid and where to turn?

Today, "La Strada" consists of 35 like-minded people who work to ensure gender equality, prevent all types of gender-based violence, including domestic violence, combat human trafficking, and ensure children's rights. The organization promotes the implementation of international human rights standards in all spheres of society. In addition, there is a national coaching network and a national network of mediators.

Most of us think that it is difficult for them to sit in quarantine: it is boring, all the series have already been watched, things are sorted... We feel sorry for ourselves, we regret that we want to sit in a cafe and go shopping again. But in reality, children and teenagers suffering from domestic violence are in real trouble. They were left alone with their abusers, and the only way to talk was to call the "La Strada Ukraine" hotline.