HUMAN RIGHTS
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Kyiv, 3 October 2018.
Ukrainian civil servants participate in an excercise to identify the key elements
of national human rights strategies and action plans during a workshop
organized by ODIHR. (OSCE)
Women made up
52%
of the 1,920
participants at
human rights events
in 2018.
NRM assessment visits to Spain,
the United States and Uzbekistan.
The gender dynamics of trafficking
in human beings came into focus at
a UN Commission on the Status of
Women (CSW) side event “#MeToo”
Say Survivors: Human Rights, Gender
and Trafficking in Human Beings, which
ODIHR organized in partnership with
UN agencies and civil society groups.
The event led to the creation of the 5.2
Global Partnership, a multi-stakeholder
group that advocates for the implementation of the sustainable development
goal target 5.2, on eliminating violence
against women and girls. State and
local officials and civil society involved
in anti-trafficking efforts in Uzbekistan
exchanged experiences with NRMs
during a study visit to Georgia and Spain,
co-organized by ODIHR and the OSCE
Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
in October.
Government authorities, religious or belief
communities and other stakeholders
in Spain obtained Spanish-language
guidance on the implementation of OSCE
commitments on freedom of religion
or belief, with a new translation of the
ODIHR-Venice Commission Guidelines
on the Legal Personality of Religious or
Belief Communities, launched in October
in Madrid.
Education specialists (11 women, 4 men)
in Belarus discussed the integration of
human rights education into curricula
and educational strategies at a workshop
in Minsk in August. As a result of the
workshop, the Ministry of Education
established a working group that will
analyze educational curricula and
strategies according to a framework of
learning competences for human rights
education, and the development of new
curricula and supporting materials.
CAPACITY BUILDING
Staff of NHRIs from 27 participating
States gained skills in applying a human
rights and gender-based approach in
reviewing legislation and in effectively
supporting human rights defenders
during the fifth edition of the NHRI
Academy, organized in partnership
with the European Network for NHRIs
(ENNHRI) and hosted by the Finnish
Human Rights Centre in June in Helsinki.
Participants later applied their insights
and skills, for example by organizing
training in their institutions and by
improving their co-operation with human
rights defenders. During the Academy,
ODIHR also signed an agreement with
ENNHRI laying the basis for future joint
activities.
As part of continued efforts to promote
the important role of national preventive
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