A/HRC/45/24 and security. In that regard, the armed forces of Sweden integrated information on the resolution and perspectives on gender equality into the mandatory training for its personnel preparing for missions abroad. In Georgia, since 2014, over 6,000 military personnel, both men and women, have been trained on gender perspectives and resolution 1325 (2000); in 2016, the Defence Institution Building School permanently integrated a module on gender in the security sector into all courses of study. III. Action taken at the national level to promote human rights training for media professionals and journalists 41. Some States reported policies to promote human rights training for media professionals and journalists. In Finland, in 2019, the Ministry of Education and Culture, in collaboration with the National Audiovisual Institute, revised and updated the national media education policy. The policy refers to international human rights instruments and defines high-quality media education as one which is aimed at promoting human rights, equality and non-discrimination and creating preconditions for sustainable development. The national guidelines for human rights education of Brazil indicate that human rights education must be present in the basic and continuing training of professionals in various fields of study, including media and journalism. 42. With regard to human rights education programmes for media professionals, Romania reported that human rights courses were part of the programmes in various faculties of journalism studies. In Italy, the Interministerial Committee for Human Rights collaborated with Ossigeno per l’Informazione, an organization that aims to monitor threats and intimidation against journalists and to provide human rights training to media companies, such as newspapers and television and radio stations, in line with the national action plan on business and human rights, 2016–2021. Under the Charter of Rome (2008), a code of conduct for media operators, the national and regional councils of the journalists’ association organize training courses for media operators concerning the human rights of asylum seekers, refugees, victims of trafficking and migrants. A festival of the press and human rights is held every year in Perugia; media operators publicly contribute to the human rights debate through traditional and new media. In Qatar, the Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties and Human Rights has organized, in partnership with various international organizations, human rights capacity-building events for Al Jazeera staff. The Centre has also promoted awareness-raising activities on the draft international declaration on the protection of journalists and campaigned for its adoption. Both El Salvador and Georgia reported that the journalist associations in their countries, the Association of Journalists in El Salvador and the Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics, have held many training courses for journalists on various human rights topics, including gender, child protection and the rights of older persons and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. In Greece, during the reporting period, the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers organized seminars on issues concerning xenophobia, gender equality and sexual orientation for its journalists and other media professionals. It also supported the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex youth community in Athens in their campaign for social equality. 43. Slovenia reported that, through the national programme for culture, 2014–2018, the Ministry of Culture has financed, since 2015, a project of the Slovene Association of Journalists, entitled “Naprej/Forward Festival of Quality Media Content”, as well as a centre for high-quality media content, which serves as a permanent education centre for journalists and has conducted or hosted various workshops on human rights, including on the ethical aspects of writing and publishing stories, reporting on children and domestic violence and case law regarding criminal proceedings against journalists and the media in the courts in Slovenia and the European Court of Human Rights. In 2019, the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of Slovenia organized a seminar on the disproportionate risks faced by women and girls online and possible media action to foster gender-sensitive approaches in reporting. Participants included journalists, editors, bloggers, influencers, employees in the advertising industry and public relations services and other media operators. 44. Some responding States highlighted a particular focus in their programming. In Cyprus, emphasis has been placed on building the capacity of media professionals to 13