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manuals, including a manual on the international human rights standards for detainees and
prisoners.
37.
Some States reported human rights training for legal professionals, either its
institutionalization, such as in El Salvador, where the curriculum at the School of Public
Prosecutors in 2016 included human rights modules, or specific activities, such as in
Colombia. In Slovenia, during the period 2015–2019, educational events at the judicial
training centre under the Ministry of Justice, such as legal conferences, expert colloquiums
and symposiums featured human rights topics. Within the framework of the European
Union project “Click off!”, the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities joined forces with universities, the judicial training centre and the police, to
organize seminars and develop a manual for police and judicial officers working in relevant
areas to improve their capacity to detect, investigate and prosecute cases of cyberviolence
and harassment perpetrated against women and girls. In Georgia, during the reporting
period, the Office of the Prosecutor conducted human rights training activities for 4,367
participants, which included prosecutors, investigators and witness and victim assistance
coordinators. The Office also provided training for trainers on human rights issues, with
214 trainers having been trained in the period 2015–2019. In Sweden, the Prosecution
Authority conducts extensive training activities on human rights topics, especially those
related to hate crimes, as part of the basic training for prosecutors. In Croatia, in 2019, the
Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities and the judicial academy
carried out a series of workshops on combating hate crimes and hate speech for members of
the judiciary and prosecuting authorities, which were attended by 109 individuals.
F.
Military
38.
Human rights training for the military also featured regularly in State responses.
Slovenia reported that human rights content was integrated into the regular military face-toface training courses of the armed forces, especially those provided prior to deployment to
military operations and missions abroad. In addition, human rights are also covered by elearning courses, such as those concerning the use of military force, as well as those on the
Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Hague Conventions. Both Georgia and
Greece reported that human rights and humanitarian law topics were integrated into the
training courses provided by their military academies. In the Niger, the Ministry of Justice
partnered with the Danish Institute for Human Rights to develop a human rights training
programme for defence and security forces and organized a series of human rights training
courses for them, in collaboration with UNDP and OHCHR. The Ministry of the Interior
also developed, with support from the Danish Institute for Human Rights, a manual and a
human rights training guide for the national guard; with those materials, between 2016 and
2017, 176 members of the national guard were trained on human rights in general and the
prohibition of torture in particular.
39.
Croatia reported that human rights modules have been incorporated into the various
levels of military training provided for commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the
armed forces. In El Salvador, human rights topics are included in military education at the
Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military School; efforts to integrate additional human
rights modules are under way. Military training in Mexico includes human rights subjects
and the Ministry of National Defence awards scholarships to military personnel for
specialized courses, diploma courses and master’s and doctoral degrees in human rights and
international humanitarian law, earned both locally and abroad. Particular efforts have also
been undertaken in training the trainers at military schools on human rights and
international humanitarian law, in order to generate a multiplier effect.
40.
In Sweden and Georgia, during the reporting period, military training on genderrelated issues was prioritized. The armed forces of Sweden hosts the Nordic Centre for
Gender in Military Operations, a knowledge hub on gender in military operations. The
Centre assists the military in integrating gender perspectives into the planning, execution
and evaluation phases of operations, through training, integrating a gender perspective into
military exercises, cooperating through a network of key experts and institutions and
providing advice on policy and process development. In addition, since 2015, various
governmental agencies have been working together to implement the national action plan
for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace
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