A/HRC/36/24 course on human rights in public policies is planned for 2017, with the technical support of MERCOSUR. The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights supported human rights training of professionals working in the social domain, including municipal officials, by producing educational materials on the protection of human rights at the local level and by delivering training on the application of human rights in various contexts. Honduras highlighted a pilot project in 2016 addressing drivers of public transport in Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela, identified as a priority target audience among the various target audiences of its large training programme for civil servants, owing to their regular contact with members of the public and particularly groups in situations of vulnerability. The project, which received a positive evaluation, will develop into a wider programme in 2017. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea conducted a study on human rights education in 64 training institutes for civil servants and teachers. In Argentina, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights created a “human rights school”, which offers educational activities organized jointly with local and community associations to tackle community needs, and a distance learning “campus” with courses on human rights issues, including pedagogy, sexual diversity, interculturality and migration. 29. In Nicaragua, in 2015 the Procuraduría organized human rights seminars and courses for over 4,000 civil servants, including staff from the Ministries of Education, Health, the Family, the Interior and Labour, the Public Ministry, municipalities, the Nicaraguan Aqueduct and Sewer Company, the National Police, the Nicaraguan army and the Supreme Court of Justice. The Procuraduría also supported pre-service training in human rights of students of police and military academies. In Morocco, the Ministry of Justice and Freedoms strengthened through training the capacity of judicial staff responsible for dealing with women and children victims of violence and trafficking and the Ministère de la réforme de l’Administration et de la fonction publique organized human rights training for officials from the Ministries of the Interior, Health and Transportation and its own officials, including on gender equality in cooperation with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The Procuraduría of Guatemala reported that from 2008 to 2015, the Government carried out a series of training-of-trainers programmes on human rights issues for staff of the School of Penitentiary Studies, the Police Academy, the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance and the School of Judicial Studies; in 2016, around 2,000 civil servants participated in human rights courses. 30. In Slovenia, all training activities organized by the judicial training centre of the Ministry of Justice for judges, State prosecutors, State attorneys and other judicial personnel include lectures on the protection of human rights, which is also the main topic of specific training events. In the framework of the Council of Europe European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals, the centre developed an e-learning course and organized training events on labour rights for judges and senior judicial advisers. In the Russian Federation, civil servants, judiciary and law enforcement officials regularly take advanced training courses on human rights and related international mechanisms. Turkey reported on at least 22 training activities for the judiciary in 20152016 focusing on human rights and similar efforts for staff working in education, pedagogy, psychology and sociology. The National Human Rights Commission of India organized several human rights training programmes for civil servants, including one jointly with the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi for district-level judicial officers. The Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary highlighted its long-standing cooperation with the Hungarian Association of Administrative Judges to train judges on a wide range of human rights issues and legal practices applied by the relevant courts. In Egypt, the National Council for Human Rights provided human rights training to jurists and staff of the Ministry of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, including in relation to managing parliamentary elections. E. Law enforcement officials 31. Most respondents mentioned that human rights are included in the training of law enforcement officials. In Italy, the Ministry of the Interior signed a memorandum of 10

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