ADAPTATION OF UKRAINIAN LEGISLATION TO THE ACTS OF ACQUIS COMMUNAUTAIRE IN THE FIELD OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: THE MAIN PRIORITIES

Abstract

Anti-discrimination legal imperatives enshrined in the acts of acquis communautaire have been comprehended; perspective areas of adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU legislation in the field of family violence (domestic violence) have been singled out. Particular attention has been paid to the elucidation of the characteristic features of the negative social and legal phenomenon of domestic violence. It has been established that the conceptual principles of protecting a person from violence by the society and the immediate environment of this person (microcommunity) were first articulated by the United Nations in the context of building a global comprehensive system of protecting human rights based on the recognition of human rights of the third generation as special rights of certain social categories (children, women, seniors, disabled, etc.). EU legislation in the field of combating family violence (“domestic violence”) is generally grounded on international and legal platform. Modern European anti-discrimination legal paradigm is based on the postulate for the recognition of a family as the “basic organizational formation in a democratic society” and the need to protect all its members from existing forms of violence. Domestic violence is mostly considered as a manifestation of discrimination based on gender feature. Instead the perspective of amending the national legislation in the sphere of combating domestic violence is in providing comprehensive protection of the rights of vulnerable social groups.