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under the Ministry of Education of Ecuador works with the non-governmental organization
Fundación Esquel. The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia implements projects
in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development and others, in
the context of which four civic education textbooks were developed for students and
teachers and a training programme for teachers of civic education is taking place
throughout Georgia. The Montenegro Bureau for Education Services has conducted
seminars for primary and secondary schools on the neglect and abuse of children and young
people. The Ministry of Education and Sports, in cooperation with the United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Montenegro, has implemented a project on schools without
violence, which includes training of mentors.
25.
Several national human rights institutions reported on the provision of teacher
training, sometimes in collaboration with the relevant ministries. The Estonian Institute for
Human Rights implements in-service training with the Ministry of Education and Research.
The Romanian Institute for Human Rights partners with the Ministry of Education,
Research, Youth and Sports in running human rights training for both teachers/educators
and pupils. Every other year, they hold a national competition for didactic creativity
focusing on, among other things, developing supplementary human rights training material
for secondary education. The National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of
Korea has provided three online programmes to help teachers’ self-study on human rights.
The Office of the Human Rights Procurator of Guatemala delivered to the Ministry of
Education educational modules on human rights training methodology in primary schools
and also developed certificate-based courses for teachers. The Office also promotes
specialized human rights and education methodology courses for teachers. The National
Human Rights Commission of Djibouti mentioned a human rights educators network,
seeking to reinforce the capacity of teaching staff in human rights knowledge and
appropriate teaching methodologies.
26.
Human rights education for educators is not limited to teacher training. National
teacher competitions for good teaching practices in civic education have been held every
other year in Bulgaria since 2003. The German Institute for Human Rights and the Free
University Berlin collaborate to professionalize human rights education in work with
children and young people, social work, social education and others. German universities of
applied sciences, which train social workers and youth or child-care workers, make
intercultural education, tolerance and education against discrimination a fixed part of the
curriculum. In Berlin, three universities of applied sciences jointly offer a master’s degree
in social work as a human rights profession.
D.
Civil servants
27.
Many countries include international human rights law in the training of their public
servants, sometimes as a mandatory component (such as the Republic of Korea and
Sweden). Basic human rights content is systematically included in the mandatory training
for all civil servants in Slovenia, upon entry into service, and for senior managers in public
administration. Dedicated institutions where human rights training is provided to State
employees are, for example, the Central Officials Training Institute, the Judicial Research
and Training Institute, and the Statistical Training Institute (Republic of Korea). The Civil
Service Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan is responsible for
the professional training of central and local Government officials concerning ethical
conduct and their rights and duties as public servants. Citizens Advice Bureau officials in
Mauritius have also received human rights training.
28.
Some States mentioned related policies. For example, the Ministry of Public
Administration and Security of the Republic of Korea included human rights as an element
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