Donor: Olof Palmes Internationella Centrum
Duration of the project: January – December 2006
In 2006 the support received from the Olof Palmes Internationella Centrum made it possible for the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights to organise the following project activities: establishment of three study groups and offer advanced Human Rights education to their members; production of the web portal, featuring the best papers on human rights issues written by young authors and all information needed in the process of communicating the international bodies for the promotion and the protection of human rights; the annual Training for Trainers – Human Rights School.The selected alumni, attendees of the 2005 Training for Trainers – School of Human Rights, had actually implemented first phase of the project. The aim was to target group of young people who will be able to spread the knowledge received in the future by delivering lectures themselves or by raising the rule of law issues in the ordinary course of their work. They had advanced training in different topics and for each of them they had mentor. The topics were right to life and prohibition of torture, prohibition of slavery and forced labour and trafficking in human beings, right to liberty and security of a person, right to fair trial, no punishment without law, right to an effective remedy, prohibition of discrimination, right to respect for private and family life, freedom of thought, conscience and religion and freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association.
All students participated in this phase wrote paper on the selected issue. The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights posted on its website a special portal devoted to the results obtained during this phase of the project. All the papers are on website of BCHR (on Serbian). Saznajte više o …
In the second phase Training for Trainers – School of Human Rights was organised on 12-22 October 2006. Twenty-six attendants took part in the seminar. Programme comprised over 50 lectures, debates, panel discussions, trials simulations, round tables and multi-media presentations. Participants had the opportunity to listen to and debate with the most eminent domestic experts in human rights, international law and international relations and law of international organisations. In drafting the programme the special emphasis was placed on the burning issues in Serbia. BCHR organised special panel during the School about confrontation with the violent past – Serbia and Croatia. The panel was open to public and was led by Prof. Žarko Puhovski, president of the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (Zagreb, Croatia), Prof. Vojin Dimitrijević, director of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and Vesna Pešić, director of the Center for Peace and Democracy.
Participants in the Training for Trainers – School of Human Rights showed interest in participating in the other programmes currently implemented by the BCHR. Several of generation 2006 alumni have already involved themselves in the project of monitoring the quality of court proceedings in specific areas (organised crime, war crimes, discrimination and domestic violence).
