Donor: Freedom House
Duration of project: March 2001 – March 2002
Clearly any movement to foster respect for human rights had to include, from its very inception, a program to educate the police force and their managing officials of the tenets of human rights law. In order to work toward this goal of police education, the Centre organised four 4-day seminars directed specifically at the law enforcement profession. Participants (30 per seminar) were selected by the Board of the Belgrade Centre in close cooperation with the Federal and Republican Ministry of the Interior. Seminars were comprised of a combination of case studies, workshops, and lectures from both domestic and foreign human rights experts. The seminars began with an overview of the concrete rights the police force must respect, and covered specific institutions and human rights protection mechanisms, as well as general theory. (more…)