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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.
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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.
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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.
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Law enforcement officials
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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
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