WWW.CCL.ORG.UA to the shelter) and new Education has also become and initiatives on organising regulatory documents an important area of our peaceful assemblies under issued by the authorities activity: lectures on civic martial law. In 2023, the OZON (namely, Presidential Decree monitoring and state-build- Civic Monitoring Group also No. 353/2023), OZON launched ing from the perspective of started a good tradition — the Second Shelter Moni- civil society, training sessions the annual Volunteer Congress toring Campaign to track on monitoring shelters, to summarise its activities improvements or no changes monitoring police actions, and plan for the next year. in the protection of citizens. as well as training for NGOs MONITORING OF POLICE ACTIONS AT PEACEFUL ASSEMBLIES In 2023, the OZON Civic Monitoring Group moni- tored peaceful assemblies 16 times. Following two days of monitoring of the assem- bly and counter-assembly near the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra on 31 March and 1 April, OZON prepared a comprehensive report describing the events and providing the assessment of the on-site work of law enforcement agen- cies and actions during conflict situations. OZON also monitored 11 peaceful assemblies held near the Kyiv City State Administration regarding the use of the city‘s budget for military needs. We pub- lished reports on the results of individual actions on social media and posted a compre- hensive report on the entire marathon of meetings on our website. In particular, during the monitoring, the volun- teers noted a positive prac- tice on the part of the Dia- logue Police and the Special Purpose Police — carrying 22
