FUNCTIONS AND ROLE OF THE COURT IN SUPPORTING STATE POLICY IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The judiciary is a key element of the rule of law, ensuring the rule of law and guarantees of constitutional human rights. In Ukraine, as in many countries, the issue of judicial protection of human rights is on the agenda in the context of general reforms aimed at strengthening democratic institutions and ensuring legal justice.

Today, Ukraine’s judicial system is undergoing a challenging reform process aimed at achieving a high level of justice eficiency, increasing public trust in the judiciary, and ensuring fair and accessible justice for all segments of the population. However, despite some positive changes, the judicial system still faces numerous challenges, such as court overload, delays in case consideration, lack of judicial specialization and other organizational and stafing dificulties. This creates obstacles to ensuring proper protection of human rights and justice, which is one of the fundamental principles of a democratic state.

In particular, the judicial system is an important component of the mechanism for protecting the rights and freedoms of citizens, since it is the courts that guarantee justice, legal certainty and observance of fundamental human rights enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine and international treaties. The purpose of this paper is to study the tasks of the judiciary in the context of the State human rights policy, to analyze the effectiveness of judicial protection of citizens’ rights and freedoms, and to examine the problems arising in the course of implementation of this policy.

The article examines the basic principles of judicial protection, such as the right to a fair trial and access to justice, as well as the importance of strategic documents, in particular the National Human Rights Strategy and the Strategy for the Development of the Justice System. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of practical aspects of judicial reforms in Ukraine, the problems of optimizing the judicial network and specialization of courts, which directly affect the eficiency of justice.

Despite certain achievements, the judicial system in Ukraine requires further changes that will ensure a more effective mechanism for the protection of human rights. The implementation of reforms should be comprehensive and aimed at increasing the level of trust in the judicial system and justice in general.