I NTRODUCTION TO THE T RAINER ’ S G UIDE This Trainer’s Guide has been prepared to assist trainers in their presentation of Human Rights and Prisons — A Manual on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials. The Manual, this Trainer’s Guide and the training’s methodological approach contained herein are intended: ● ● ● ● ● ● To provide information on international human rights standards relevant to the work of prison officials; To encourage the development of skills necessary to transform that information into practical behaviour; To sensitize prison officials to their particular role in promoting and protecting human rights, and to their own potential for affecting human rights in their daily work; To reinforce prison officials’ respect for, and faith in, human dignity and fundamental human rights; To encourage and reinforce an ethos of legality, and of compliance with international human rights standards, within prisons; To equip trainers of prison officials to provide effective human rights education and training. The Trainer’s Guide, which encourages trainers to involve students in practical tasks and to use the international instruments as a point of reference, consists of three parts. Part One of the Guide provides an introduction to the human rights training of prison officials, including the methodological approach suggested by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), information on effective training techniques and other relevant advice for organizers of courses offered under the approach contained in this training package. Part Two of the Guide follows the structure of the accompanying Manual; each chapter is organized under the same headings as in the Manual, for ease of use, and contains suggestions on methods of presentation and relevant material for the practical exercises. The use of such material, in whole or in part, is for the trainer to determine. In particular, each chapter contains an exercise referring to the Compilation of Instruments, in order to establish the basis for each principle; this exercise is optional but it will familiarize the trainees with the source documents in a way that simply reading them from the Compilation will not. If this exercise is to be used, it is recommended that the trainees do not have the corresponding chapter of the Manual open until the exercise is completed. Part Three of the Guide contains specific training tools such as pre-course and postcourse questionnaires and a model course outline; it concludes with blank pages for notes, in which trainers could add any information or techniques that have been found useful in particular training situations, in order to enrich the material contained in OHCHR’s training package. In this regard, OHCHR would appreciate receiving any comments or suggestions from trainers who have used the training package with a view to improving its usefulness. 1