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of Prisoners; Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form
of Detention or Imprisonment)
• Instruments concerning juvenile justice (United Nations Guidelines for the
Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (the Riyadh Guidelines); United Nations
Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing
Rules); United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their
Liberty; Guidelines for Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System).
42.
Similarly, specific international human rights standards would be applicable to the
civil service or the military.
2.
Strategies
(a)
Training policies and other related policies
43.
If training is to produce the desired impact on behaviour and professional
performance, it must be clearly supported by and linked to corresponding policies and rules
in the trainees’ organization or institution. With regard to civil servants, law enforcement
officials and the military, the following strategies could be adopted:
(a)
Reviewing pre-service and in-service training policies to make sure that they
include human rights training, 25 and make audience-specific human rights courses
compulsory for pre-service training;
(b)
Encouraging the adoption of a comprehensive human rights training policy
relating to pre-service and in-service training, with such training as a mandatory criterion
for professional qualification and promotion;
(c)
Adopting policies to recruit and especially train officials appropriately suited
for dealing with vulnerable groups which may be dealt with by the professions, such as
children, women, minorities, people with disabilities, indigenous peoples etc.
(d)
With regard to the institutionalization of human rights training:
(i)
Commitment to human rights training for civil servants, law enforcement
officials and the military should not translate into just one-off training courses for
selected officials but should encourage the establishment of a sound national training
structure, involving both the sector in question and those sectors of society it is
supposed to serve;
(ii)
Reviewing all existing pre-service and in-service training curricula to
explicitly integrate human rights principles and standards in all relevant subjects,
and in addition develop specific human rights training courses as appropriate;
(iii) Encouraging the creation of a fully integrated human rights centre in civil
service training colleges, schools of government, and police and military training
colleges;
(iv) When possible, giving priority to the training of trainers, i.e. those who are
charged with conducting human rights training and material or knowledge
dissemination efforts after returning to their institutions, organizations or duty
25
See, for instance para. 3 of general recommendation No. 13 (1993) on the training of law
enforcement officials in the protection of human rights of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination.
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