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Human rights monitoring training launched in Armenia
YEREVAN 29 March 2001
YEREVAN, 29 March 2001 - The OSCE Office in Yerevan has launched a training programme for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Armenia on accurate and comprehensive human rights reporting. The first session took place from 24 to 28 March 2001.
The aim of the project is to train Armenian NGOs in preparing accurate and comprehensive human rights monitoring reports. Experts from the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights prepare and conduct the training programme, which is supported by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan.
The first training session introduced monitoring standards and practices, NGO operational strategies, practical methodology and techniques to design, prepare, and carry out monitoring reports. The second training session, which will take place in May, will focus on reviewing the work performed by the participants between the sessions, on using effectively monitoring reports both at domestic and international levels and on examining specific problems encountered during the monitoring. The training sessions are in the form of open discussions, lectures and practical exercises. At the end of the training process, NGO participants will present human rights monitoring projects, some of which will be supported in the course of their implementation by the OSCE and the Polish Helsinki Foundation.
16 NGOs participated in the project: Armenian Constitutional Rights Center, Sakharov Fund, Women's Rights Center, Fund Against Violation of Law, Helsinki Committee of Armenia, Civil Society Development Union, Association of Women with High University Education, Youth Center for Gender Studies, Pro Democracy Association, Soldier's Mothers, Sourp Sandukht, Armenian Refugees Supporting League, as well as three representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Interior and the Human Rights Commission to the President.
The OSCE Office in Yerevan was established in February 2000 to promote the implementation of OSCE principles and commitments as well as the co-operation of the Republic of Armenia within the OSCE framework, in all OSCE dimensions, including the human, political, political and environmental aspects of security and stability.
For further information please contact Ms. Christine Mardirossian, Human Rights Officer, OSCE Office in Yerevan, tel.: +374 1 54 10 64, + 374 1 54 58 45; e-mail: [email protected]
The aim of the project is to train Armenian NGOs in preparing accurate and comprehensive human rights monitoring reports. Experts from the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights prepare and conduct the training programme, which is supported by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan.
The first training session introduced monitoring standards and practices, NGO operational strategies, practical methodology and techniques to design, prepare, and carry out monitoring reports. The second training session, which will take place in May, will focus on reviewing the work performed by the participants between the sessions, on using effectively monitoring reports both at domestic and international levels and on examining specific problems encountered during the monitoring. The training sessions are in the form of open discussions, lectures and practical exercises. At the end of the training process, NGO participants will present human rights monitoring projects, some of which will be supported in the course of their implementation by the OSCE and the Polish Helsinki Foundation.
16 NGOs participated in the project: Armenian Constitutional Rights Center, Sakharov Fund, Women's Rights Center, Fund Against Violation of Law, Helsinki Committee of Armenia, Civil Society Development Union, Association of Women with High University Education, Youth Center for Gender Studies, Pro Democracy Association, Soldier's Mothers, Sourp Sandukht, Armenian Refugees Supporting League, as well as three representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Interior and the Human Rights Commission to the President.
The OSCE Office in Yerevan was established in February 2000 to promote the implementation of OSCE principles and commitments as well as the co-operation of the Republic of Armenia within the OSCE framework, in all OSCE dimensions, including the human, political, political and environmental aspects of security and stability.
For further information please contact Ms. Christine Mardirossian, Human Rights Officer, OSCE Office in Yerevan, tel.: +374 1 54 10 64, + 374 1 54 58 45; e-mail: [email protected]