We invite you to join the international conference “Whistleblowers in Ukraine: Successes and Challenges”!
The goal is to launch Ukraine’s first discussion platform for sharing ideas and networking among experts in whistleblower protection, developing partnerships, figuring out next steps for developing strategies and tactics to establish whistleblowing and protect whistleblowers in Ukraine, and improving existing mechanisms for protecting whistleblowers’ rights.
The conference will be attended by international and national experts in the field of whistleblower protection, judges, lawyers, representatives of civil society organisations, whistleblowers, specially authorised persons, NACP employees and compliance officers.
The conference will be held in a hybrid format: the main speakers will speak offline, and anyone interested will be able to join the conference online.
The conference will feature four panel discussions devoted to discussing the agenda for protecting whistleblowers in Ukraine and around the world, as well as additional presentations and master classes.
Date: 24 June 2021
Time: from 10:00 to 18:00
Location: FEDORIV Hub with live streaming on Zoom and Facebook.
Information blocks of the conference ‘Whistleblowers in Ukraine: Successes and Challenges’:
Panel 1: Best global practices for protecting whistleblowers
Panel 2: Successes, challenges and new opportunities for protecting whistleblowers in Ukraine
Panel 3: Protecting the labour rights of whistleblowers: myth or reality?
Panel 4: The role of whistleblowers in criminal proceedings
Speakers of the event:
- Oleksandr Novikov, Head of the National Agency for Corruption Prevention
- Serhiy Derkach, Head of the Department for Corruption Prevention and Detection of the National Agency for Corruption Prevention
- Oksana Nesterenko, Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational Centre for Anti-Corruption at NaUKMA (ACREC)
- Anastasia Radina, Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the 9th convocation
- Ruslan Kundryk, expert of the project ‘Supporting Leading Organisations in Countering Corruption in Ukraine ’Interaction”, implemented with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Suelette Dreyfus, Executive Director of Blueprint for Free Speech
- Tom Devine, Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project
- Anna Myers, Executive Director of Whistleblowing International Network
- Miroslava Bilak, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine
- Lyudmila Yeresko, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine
- Zoya Zaginey-Zabolotenko, Head of the Legal Position Unity Division of the Legal Management Department III of the Analytical and Legal Work Department of the Supreme Court
- Serhiy Yushchyshyn, Deputy Director of the Coordination Centre for Free Legal Aid
- Oleksandr Abakumov, Detective, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine
- Vasyl Lutsk, Head of the Whistleblower Protection and Corruption Reporting Department
- Myroko Bohdan, Prosecutor, Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office
- Vira Mykhailenko, Judge, High Anti-Corruption Court
The conference is organised by the Anti-Corruption Research and Education Centre (ACREC) at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) in cooperation with the National Agency for Corruption Prevention and with financial support from the International Renaissance Foundation.
A press conference will be held before the event begins.