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Anastasiia Apetyk, an expert on information rights and digital security at the Expert Center for Human Rights, cited top mistakes of social and corporate network users during an online webinar for Pro Bono Lab and Legal IT Hub.  Leakage of personal data $1 is enough to know your home address, passport, bank and other data. Most often, such information becomes available on the Internet through store employees whose discount cards you have. Remember how many questions you answered about yourself before getting this plastic? Of course, no one offers to completely abandon discount cards, yet before filling out a questionnaire

Lawyer Iryna Zaremba provided advisory assistance to a social and political figure who sought protection in our country, and on the basis of this case formed an algorithm of human actions to obtain refugee status. Foreigners seeking protection in Ukraine are usually victims of political repression and brutal persecution in their country. They find themselves in a difficult life situation, when freedom, health, and sometimes life can be lost at home, and sometimes life, and here they are unfriendly to complex bureaucratic procedures, language barrier and uncertainty about their rights. Such problems arise both at the stage of applying for

The European Pro Bono Week 2020 is being held in Kyiv where the best lawyers of the country give advice free of charge to representatives of public organizations. Today, 23 November, founder of an auditing company Oleksandr Marinchenko told about some nuances of external audit and gave some practical advice as to how to choose providers of such services. Here is an extract from his lecture: Auditing both allows discovering irregularities in accounting and favourably concerns the image of public organization by enhancing trust in it. An auditor can check all financial statements of an organization, give more detailed assessment

The topic of the third webinar within The European Pro Bono Week 2020 was Employment Relationship in a Public Organization. During the webinar, lawyer of Kyiv office of the largest international law firm Dentons Oleksandra Piskun shared her experience in drawing up employment agreements in the COVID-19 pandemic and told about nuances of cooperation between public organizations and individual entrepreneurs. We have brief notes of main points in her lecture. An employment agreement is often termless; however, if a person is hired for a particular work, for example, implementation of a program with the term of 2 to 3 months, it should be specified in

The European Pro Bono Week 2020 is over in Kyiv; during this time the best lawyers of the country have advised free of charge representatives of public organizations. The topic of the final on-line meeting was the Code of Ethics in a Public Organization. During the webinar, senior lawyer of the world’s international law firm Dentons Kyiv Office, Head of the task force on counteraction to corruption of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine Ihor Svitlyk told what this document is required for and how to make it persistently enforceable by both your employees and partners. The Ukrainian Legal Aid

During the last three months, Pro Bono Lab program team of the Ukrainian Access to Justice School of Practice together with experts in law business worked on the creation of the first Ukrainian training course for public organizations from law business. Legal Empowerment for NGOs is an educational online video course that involves the cooperation of NGOs, law firms and experts in order to improve the internal operational processes of NGOs. The participants of the course are NGOs-champions, which have passed the competitive selection for training under separate thematic blocks. Thematic blocks were formed on the basis of requests submitted

COVID-19 and the related changes have made us all revise the rules of life and activity. The shift to the remote work has focused our attention without limitation on the online work security issues. How to protect personal and work information? What rules to comply with so that you personally and your organization will feel safe?   The material has been prepared by the partners of the Pro Bono Lab Programme and Legal IT Hub, the international organization “PILnet” in cooperation with the global cybersecurity leader, AVAST “I want to scare you, but my purpose is different. The purpose is to