OSCE and Tajik Government organizes human rights and torture prevention training seminars
The trainees were given the opportunity to exercise in role-play situations. (OSCE) Photo details
KHUJAND, 5 February 2002 - Between 25 January and 2 February, the OSCE and the Tajik Government organized a series of eight human rights training seminars for some 240 members of prison and detention centre staff in the Sughd province in northern Tajikistan.
The seminars, which are part of a project on Prison Service Training agreed upon by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Tajik Government, aimed at raising the participant's awareness for human rights and torture prevention. The participants represented all staff categories and all of the four penitentiary institutions in the Sughd province: a male prison colony of strict regime, a female colony of general regime, and two pre-trial detention centres in Khujand and Istaravshan.
Two ODIHR experts and two Tajik trainers from the presidential administration and a local non-governmental organization familiarized the trainees with Tajikistan's own legislation and international human rights and torture prevention commitments, as well as international standards for treatment of detainees.
The trainees were given the opportunity to exercise good practices in role-play situations. Supporting literature such as the United Nation's anti-torture brochure and the texts of relevant international legal instruments were distributed to the attendants.
The eight seminars were jointly organized by the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan, ODIHR, and the Tajik Government.
The seminars, which are part of a project on Prison Service Training agreed upon by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Tajik Government, aimed at raising the participant's awareness for human rights and torture prevention. The participants represented all staff categories and all of the four penitentiary institutions in the Sughd province: a male prison colony of strict regime, a female colony of general regime, and two pre-trial detention centres in Khujand and Istaravshan.
Two ODIHR experts and two Tajik trainers from the presidential administration and a local non-governmental organization familiarized the trainees with Tajikistan's own legislation and international human rights and torture prevention commitments, as well as international standards for treatment of detainees.
The trainees were given the opportunity to exercise good practices in role-play situations. Supporting literature such as the United Nation's anti-torture brochure and the texts of relevant international legal instruments were distributed to the attendants.
The eight seminars were jointly organized by the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan, ODIHR, and the Tajik Government.