ANNUAL REPORT 2023 3.  WORK WITHIN STRATEGIC AREAS AND  HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVES 3.3. Getting the public involved in the human rights work In 2023, the OZON Civic prevent the curtailment Monitoring Group of democracy’, which was 16 continued to work on ex- joined by leading Ukrainian panding opportunities for organisations engaged in civic cases of monitoring of ordinary people to engage monitoring of the authorities. peaceful assemblies, in civic monitoring, and During the event, we pub- also qualitatively deepened licly discussed the situation the practices started in 2022. with civic monitoring as 3 In particular, OZON of the beginning of 2023 in focused on three moni- various areas (judiciary, cases of court monitoring toring mechanisms: anti-corruption, peaceful • monitoring of police assembly, reforms, and more). 50+ In 2023, we finalised actions at peace- the results of the first shelter visits of monitoring ful assemblies, monitoring campaign through groups to shelters • monitoring of a public dialogue with the au- thorities and by publishing re- court hearings, ports and recommendations. 6 • monitoring the arrange- One of the results was a large lectures on communication campaign in ment of civil protection fa- cooperation with the Centre Civic Monitoring cilities by local authorities. for Strategic Communications and Dovidka.info: a series of 13 One of the most important videos that answer questions and consolidating events about the right to use shelters. pieces of training on was the roundtable dis- In response to the trag- shelter monitoring cussion ‘Civic monitoring ic events (deaths in Kyiv during the war: how to near the closed entrance 21