Human Rights
Yoshie Noguchi, Senior Legal Officer of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour at the
International Labour Organization, speaking at the working session on trafficking in human beings during the
Warsaw part of the Review Conference, 8 October. (OSCE)
and building their capacity. In Azerbaijan, a
conference and a number of workshops were
co-organized with the OSCE Centre in Baku,
and direct technical assistance was provided
to the NPM. These efforts led, in December, to
the adoption of legislation more compliant with
OPCAT and an improvement in the capacity of
the NPM to perform its functions. ODIHR presented the results of its activities in support of
the operations of NPMs in the OSCE area on 24
June, at the 11th session of the UN Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture, where its efforts
were strongly welcomed.
In the area of international co-operation,
ODIHR also hosted the third annual meeting
of instruments and mechanisms for the protection of human rights defenders in December in
Warsaw, organized by the Observatory for the
Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint
programme of the International Federation for
Human Rights and the World Organisation
Against Torture.
ODIHR also continued to support projects in
participating States in the area of freedom of
peaceful assembly, through building the capacity of civil society actors to monitor assemblies.
The implementation of a freedom of assembly
monitoring project continued in Kazakhstan.
In Georgia, ODIHR, jointly with the Council of Europe and the local NGO Human
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Rights Centre, trained assembly monitors in
December. Monitoring activities there are
currently ongoing.
In addition, ODIHR continued to engage
with the authorities of participating States to
support them in addressing any gaps in the
effective management and policing of assemblies in line with their OSCE commitments. In
August, a delegation of Moldovan police officers
took part in a study trip to Poland. The event
was organized jointly with the OSCE Mission to
Moldova, and gave members of the Moldovan
police the opportunity to discuss their experiences with Polish colleagues and learn good
practices in the policing of assemblies.
Human Rights Training and Education
On 14 and 15 September 2010, ODIHR brought
staff working in Human Rights Education fields
at OSCE missions together in Istanbul for the
“Building the Capacity of the OSCE to carry out
Quality Human Rights Education and Training” workshop. Participants learned about the
basics of human rights education programming.
The workshop strengthened links among the
missions and between the missions and ODIHR.
The Regional Forum “Human Rights Education: Achievements, Lessons Learned and
Perspectives”, conducted by ODIHR and the
Lithuanian Ministry of Education in 2009 in
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