38 // HUMAN RIGHTS
lice Edwards, Head of the Secretariat of the Geneva-based interA
governmental organization Convention against Torture Initiative
(CTI), addressing participants in a workshop on torture prevention
co-hosted by ODIHR, the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the OSCE,
and CTI, Vienna, 28 March 2017. (OSCE/Micky Kroell)
“O
DIHR’s training is
very much needed
in Ukraine and we are
motivated to learn how
to integrate a gender
perspective using the
experience of other
countries. We hope to
continue our co-operation
with ODIHR through
follow-up training.”
— Olga Kharchenko, Chief Specialist
at the Human Rights Directorate of
Ukraine’s National Police
Ukraine, which involved 39 participants (27 men, 12 women).
On 14 and 15 August 2017, ODIHR
delivered training sessions at the
Bristol University summer school
on “Detention monitoring applying
the UN Nelson Mandela Rules”. The
training sessions were delivered to 23
prison monitors (11 men, 12 women)
from 20 countries, including 21 staff
from 17 National Prevention Mechanisms. The summer school was organized by the Human Rights Implementation Centre and Penal Reform
International, in partnership with
the Association for the Prevention of
Torture.
On 28 March, ODIHR organized a
workshop for 60 representatives of 36
OSCE participating States (25 men, 35
women) on the prevention of torture
in the early stages of police custody
and during investigation. The workshop aimed at raising awareness
among authorities of the importance
of procedural and substantive safeguards for preventing torture and
other ill-treatment during police custody. During the workshop, ODIHR
also introduced OSCE participating States to the ongoing discussion
about creating a universal protocol on
humane investigative interviewing
and invited them to consider supporting its development.
The link between human rights and
the prevention of violent extremism
and radicalization that leads to terrorism was the subject of an ODIHR
training workshop for 22 police officers (20 men, 2 women) from local
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