Organising institution |
 Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland
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Delivering institution |
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland
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Type |
Educational programmes | |
Name |
The International winter school on human rights | |
Substantive focus |
children rights
prison administration
human rights
disability
freedom of association
freedom of opinion and expression | |
Target group |
Lawyers
Media specialists
NGO activists
Police/Security forces
Prison officials | |
In-service training or
pre-service training |
No | |
Content |
This program is an advanced-level course designed for those activists of non-governmental organizations who have graduated from the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights' International Summer School on Human Rights or from another basic course on the mechanisms for human rights protection. The curriculum is usually based on selected issues from the area of human rights and freedoms.
The three winter schools that have taken place so far have focused on the mechanisms for the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms isolated institutions (prisons, police stations, pre-trial detention centers, psychiatric hospitals, children's homes, etc.), freedom of association, and freedom of speech. | |
HR incorporated in curriculum |
No | |
Number of participants |
Forty to forty-five. | |
Additional information |
Funding institution: Ford Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Open Society Institute, C.S. MOTT Foundation, European Union, United Nations, private sponsors.
Approximately 120 persons from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan have completed the Winter School. | |
Was the program evaluated |
Information not available | |
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