HELP courses
Free self-learning HELP courses in Russian language
Admissibility criteria in applications submitted to the European Court of Human Rights
Updated: March 2019
Length: approximately 6 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Grounds for inadmissibility: incompatibility, anonymity, substantially the same, abuse of rights
- Grounds for inadmissibility: non-exhaustion, six-month rule, no significant disadvantage
- Grounds for inadmissibility: manifestly ill-founded
Asylum and Human Rights
Updated: 2021
Length: Approximately 6 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Non-refoulement, the right to life and prohibition of ill-treatment
- Detention and Reception
- The right to family life and asylum
- Effective remedy
Child-friendly Justice
Published: October 2017
Length: Approximately 12 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Child-friendly justice
- Non-judicial proceedings
- General elements
- Interaction with children in the judicial system – main challenges
- Interdisciplinarity
- Deprivation of liberty
- Violence against children
- Migration and asylum
Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
Published: 2017
Length: Approximately 11 hours
Modules:
- Introduction and legal framework
- Definitions and legal concepts
- Identification of victims of human trafficking
- Assistance for victims of human trafficking
- The non-punishment principle
- Investigation, prosecution and victims’ rights
- Sentencing
- Compensation for victims of human trafficking
- Return and repatriation
CPT standards
Published: September 2019
Length: Approximately 10 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Law enforcement
- Prisons and other penal institutions
- Immigration detention
- Psychiatric establishments
- Social care homes
Family Law and Human Rights
Published: February 2019
Length: Approximately 9 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Rights Related to Couples
- Relationship between Children and their Parents and Other Relatives
- International Child Abduction
- Children’s Rights: Key Challenges
International Cooperation on Criminal Matters
Available soon in Russian
Published: August 2017
Length: Approximately 12 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Legal framework
- Extradition
- Mutual Legal Assistance
- Transfer of Sentenced Persons
- Supervision of Offenders, International Validity of Criminal Judgements and Transfer of Proceedings
- Seizure and confiscation of Proceeds of Crime
Key human rights principles in Biomedicine
Published: August 2018
Length: Approximately 8 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Free and Informed Consent
- Medical Confidentiality and Protection of Health Related Data
- Protection of the Embryo and Procreation
- End of Life
- Genetic Testing
- Biomedical Research
- Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues
Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights
Published: March 2020
Length: Approximately 6 hours
Modules:
- The European Convention on Human Rights
- The European Court of Human Rights
- Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Labour Rights as Human Rights
Published: March 2017
Length: Approximately 11 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Right to work and employment relationship
- Working time
- Fair remuneration and protection of wages
- Termination of employment
- Equality and non-discrimination
- Collective labour rights on all levels
- Occupational safety and health
Pre-trail investigation and the European Convention on Human Rights
Published: 2016
Length: Approximately 7 hours
Modules:
- Covert investigation
- Search
- Pre-trial detention
- Treatment in detention
- Fair trial
- Effective investigation
Procedural safeguards in Criminal Proceedings and Victims' Rights
Available soon in Russian
Published: September 2019
Length: Approximately 11 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- General Aspects of a Fair Trial
- Specific Rights – The Presumption of Innocence
- Specific Rights (Right to Information; Right to Remain Silent and Not to Incriminate Oneself; Right of Access to a Lawyer; Right to Legal Aid; Right to Interpretation and Translation)
- Specific Rights (Right to Examine Witnesses; Right to be present at Trial; Right to Appeal; Right to an Effective Remedy; Protection in the European Arrest warrant (EAW) Proceedings)
- Victims’ Rights
Prohibition of Ill-Treatment in Law Enforcement, Security and Other Coercive Contexts
Published: August 2017
Length: Approximately 6 hours
Modules:
- Definitions and international/ European legal framework
- Conditions of detention and medical treatment of detainees
- Use of force as a means of restraint
- Safeguards against ill-treatment
- Effective investigation – combatting impunity
- Interrelation with other rights
Reasoning of Criminal Judgments
Published: 2016
Length: Approximately 10 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Right to a fair trial under Article 6 and the minimum requirements for the national courts’ reasoning
- Reasoning of criminal judgements in the context of Articles 2 and 3
- Reasoning of criminal judgements in the context of Article 5
- Reasoning of criminal judgments in the context of Article 8
- Reasoning of criminal judgments in the context of Article 10
- Reasoning of criminal judgments in the context of Article 6 and non-attendance
Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Also available in Uzbek language
Published: March 2018
Length: Approximately 8 hours
Modules:
- Introductory module
- Non-discrimination and intersectionality
- Legal capacity and independent living
- Accessibility and independent living
- Social rights of persons with disabilities
Right to Liberty and Security
Published: 2016
Length: Approximately 8 hours
Modules:
- Introduction
- Scope of application of Article 5 and lawfulness
- Justifications in Article 5
- Case study
Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence
Published: November 2017
Length: Approximately 12 hours
Modules:
- Understanding violence against women and domestic violence
- International and European Legal Framework
- Overcoming barriers / access to Justice
- Criminal Justice Response I – Investigation and pre-trial
- Criminal Justice Response II – Trial and sentencing
- Civil Justice Response
- Alternative Dispute Resolution