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Assisting Ministry of Justice in preparation of a communication strategy
A team of one international and one national consultant is assisting the Ministry of Justice in the drafting of a communication strategy on free legal aid. The main objective of the strategy is to increase the awareness on free legal aid as an important, available and functional mechanism...
Strengthening the criminal justice capacities on investigation, prosecution and adjudication of money laundering in Albania
Representatives of the National School of Magistrates, Academy of Security, Regional Directorates of the Albanian State Police, General Prosecutor`s Office, Districts Prosecutions, Serious Crimes Prosecution, District Courts and the General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering...
Court police and prison staff in Bosnia and Herzegovina exchange best practices with Slovenian colleagues
delegation of senior prison staff from the Slovenian Prison Administration is sharing good custodial practices in a training session for court police and prison staff organised on 6-7 February in Mostar. This peer training, designed and delivered by local prison and police professionals, aligns...
Prison and court police officers train together to end human rights infringements in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Security and treatment staff from 14 prisons and officers from 20 court police units in Bosnia and Herzegovina are training and working together to ensure human rights safeguards and purposeful regime in closed environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This peer training session on 6-7 February 2019...
Piloting of the screening and risk and needs assessment tools for radicalized prisoners
Prison staff working in the area of rehabilitation benefited from the ‘on-the-job’ coaching during the piloting of the application of the newly developed screening and risk and needs assessment (RNA) tools for radicalised inmates. The tools were piloted in the two biggest penitentiary...
Workshop on preventing and combating human trafficking for labour exploitation delivered to labour and market inspectors in Serbia
Forty-six labour and market inspectors together with representatives of the police and civil society organisations Astra and Atina attended a workshop on “Preventing and combating human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation - the role of labour inspectors and market inspectors” on...
Regional conference on obligation to execute decisions of the European Court of Human Rights
All European countries are obliged to enforce the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights and thus demonstrate their commitment to respecting the fundamental human rights and values on which the Council of Europe and the European Union are founded. This is one of the key conclusions of the...
Promotion of national minorities in the City of Tuzla
The students of five elementary schools in Tuzla (Jala, Centar, Brčanska malta, Tušanj and Catholic school “Sveti Franjo”) recently had an opportunity to participate in somewhat different classes than they are used to. The young people from 6th to 9th grade discussed many topics on national...
Workshops for staff of regional offices of the Ministry of Justice and representatives of civil society organisations and the Bar Association
A half-day workshops for staff members of regional offices of the Ministry of Justice and representatives and civil society organisations (CSOs) and the Bar Association were held in Skopje on 28 and 29 January. The workshops were designed as a forum for discussion of the stakeholders in the free...
Court police safeguards human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Court police officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina are introducing improvements to the existing procedures for deprivation of liberty and treatment of apprehended persons in the series of ongoing peer training sessions on human rights. The overall training programme is delivered based on the...
MEDIA ADVISORY: Regional conference: the obligation to execute decisions of the European Court of Human Rights
The Regional conference: The obligation to execute decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, will be held on Thursday, January 31, 2019, from 10 to 17:15 in the Hilton Hotel (Bulevard St. Petar Cetinjski 2, Podgorica). According to the number of applications before the European Court of...
City of Sarajevo continues to promote national minority rights with the support from the European Union and the Council of Europe
City of Sarajevo organised the “Day of national minority languages” in the City Hall on 25 January. This activity was implemented within the project “Provision of contribution to effective realisation of rights and needs of national minorities in Sarajevo in the fields of education, media and...
A public lecture on trafficking in human beings for civil society organisations representatives and law students delivered in Skopje
On 25 January 2019, twenty-two representatives of human rights civil society organisations and law students from several law faculties in the country attended a public lecture on preventing and combating of trafficking in human beings in the European Union Info centre in Skopje. Liliana...
Multi-disciplinary training on preventing and combating human trafficking for labour exploitation
Thirty-nine labour inspectors participated in a multi-disciplinary training on detection, identification and assistance to victims of trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation. Representatives from the National Task Force on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and the National...
Capacity building of state administration to apply the European Convention’s reasonable time standards in the administrative proceedings
The action “Fighting ill-treatment and impunity, and enhancing the application of the European Court of Human Rights case-law on the national level” has expanded the capacity building activities on the state administration, with the aim to ensure the respect of the reasonable time standards in...
Support to the new scheme for the evaluation of judges in Albania
From 14 to 15 January 2019, the international expert of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), Anne Sanders led a seminar and several meetings in Tirana to present and discuss the CEPEJ report on the new system of individual evaluation of judges in Albania established by...
Training on prevention of ill-treatment for 150 police and prison officers
More than 150 prison and police officers have increased their knowledge on human rights of detained and sentenced people through a series of cascade training sessions. Teams of national trainers established within the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Interior and trained under the auspices...
Training on Istanbul protocol for prison staff of Montenegro
The two training sessions for prison medical staff organised in Montenegro early 2018, highlighted the need for further training to improve the process of medical screening with the final aim to identify and properly document cases of ill-treatment. The training focused on the provisions of the...
Steering committee reviews progress of actions on education in Montenegro
On 13 December 2018, key beneficiary partners from the Ministry of Education, University of Montenegro, the Bureau for Education Services, the Anti-Corruption Agency and the Centre for Vocational Education attended the 5th meeting of the Steering Committee on actions in Education in Podgorica....
Third training on “Asset tracing and identification for purposes of seizure and confiscation in a criminal case”
Some 50 representatives from district prosecutor’s offices, regional police directorates, offices of the General Directorate of Customs and Taxation, the General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering, the Financial Supervision Authority and the Central Bank of Albania, benefited from...
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