Office staff of the Ombudsman and representatives of civil society organisations successfully completed the Training of Trainers on combating discrimination held from November 2021 to June 2022.
Through these trainings, participants enhanced their knowledge and practical competences on key concepts, international, European and domestic standards relating to anti-discrimination, hate speech and hate crime. Further, it strengthened trainees’ skills to offer support to victims of discrimination and develop their competences but also to act as trainers during the future activities on promoting equality and antidiscrimination in Azerbaijan. The Council of Europe educational resources and tools, such online courses on antidiscrimination, hate speech and hate crime and various relevant recommendations translated into local language, that are not only setting standards in this field but also providing guidelines to member states and other relevant actors for their implementation were presented during the training.
Participants had the opportunity to exchange with Sabina Aliyeva, Human Rights Commissioner of Azerbaijan, regarding the work in the field of equality and antidiscrimination her institution is doing, while a certificate award ceremony was held for newly trained trainers, encouraging their work in the field.
This event was organised in co-operation with the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the framework of the project “Strengthening access to justice through non-judicial redress mechanisms for victims of discrimination, hate crime and hate speech in Eastern Partnership countries,” funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe in their Partnership for Good Governance II 2019-2022.
