When coercion or pressure leads to injury or disability: which legal avenues for protection actually work in Ukraine.

In this podcast, Olena Fonova, a judge of the Commercial Court of Luhansk Oblast and co-founder and deputy chair of the board of the NGO “MEC ‘PRO JUSTIS’,” explains what constitutes “forced labor” in the legal sense and where the line is drawn between “duty” and “coercion.”

Martial law in Ukraine: when conscription into labor is a lawful “labor duty.” How does the Constitution formulate the prohibition on forced labor and the exception “in accordance with laws on martial and states of emergency”? Russian prisoners of war: is their labor “forced” if they are provided for and prepared for exchange?