Key recommendations that came out of the The ODIHR also began a two-year project in 2004 for meeting included that: four countries in Central Asia. Entitled “Human Rights Monitoring Training”, the project focuses on human
Country-specific guidelines for human-rights rights in pre-trial detention, an issue of concern education should be developed in accordance throughout the region. The project began with a four- with the needs and priorities of individual day seminar in Almaty for 26 participants, including countries; representatives of NGOs and government officials, who
A gender perspective should be an integral discussed principles of human rights and international part of every human-rights education and standards related to pre-trial detention, national and training effort; international monitoring mechanisms, and strategic monitoring, among other topics. A second training ses-
OSCE participating States should aim to adopt sion, to be held in March 2005, will focus on practical national plans of action for human-rights aspects of monitoring human rights in places of deten- education and strive for their implementation; tion and will include visits to pre-trial detention facili-
Human-rights education should be main- ties. The participants will then begin monitoring facili- streamed into the training of public officials ties in their respective countries, the results of which to create a human-rights culture in public will be discussed at NGO-government roundtables in administration; 2005 and 2006.
The OSCE and its institutions and field operations should continue to take initiatives that The ODIHR also provided trainers and expertise for a bring governments and civil society together training session on women’s-rights monitoring and re- in the area of human-rights education and porting that was organized by the OSCE Centre in training; Tashkent. The purpose of the event was to increase
The OSCE should provide political support for knowledge of women’s rights among women from initiatives to include human-rights education NGOs and state structures, to teach skills on monitor- into curricula. Necessary technical assistance ing and reporting on women’s rights, and to motivate should be provided when appropriate. women from government and civil society to co-operate and build coalitions. Training for governments and civil society Human-rights training for OSCE field staff The ODIHR conducted a number of activities in 2004 Following up on a recommendation made at the aimed at increasing the capacity of NGOs to follow the Human Dimension Forum in Vienna in November 2003, human-rights situation in places of detention. In Yere- the ODIHR conducted four training courses in 2004 for van, for example, a training workshop was held for the new human dimension officers working in OSCE field Armenian Civil Society Monitoring Board on Places of operations. Detention. The workshop presented a framework for steps that the Monitoring Board can take to monitor prisons in the country. 58