Deadline: 5 September 2016
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) is accepting applications for its five-days training on human rights monitoring and safety and security workshop for human rights defenders from Western Balkans, Central/Eastern Europe and Turkey. The objective of the training is to enable HRDs to independently carry out quality, objective and impartial human rights monitoring activities.
The event will take place in Montenegro from 17 to 21 October 2016, and will cover the human rights monitoring principles, human rights monitoring cycle, physical and psychosocial safety and security of human rights monitors as well as digital safety and security. The training will be based on interactive learning methods and requires a high level of active participation by all participants.
The OSCE recognizes as a human right defender any person promoting and striving for the realization of human rights regardless of profession, age or other status or whether they are carrying out their human rights activities individually or jointly with others, as part of an informal group or a non-governmental organization (NGO), or whether they act in a voluntary capacity or professionally.
Eligibility Criteria
The size of the group will be limited to 25 participants, selected according to the following criteria:
- Be a citizen of one of the countries in the abovementioned sub-regions;
- Have limited experience in monitoring and reporting on human rights;
- Be willing to engage in human rights monitoring activities in the future;
- Consider the training highly relevant for future human rights activities;
- Have had no or little training in safety and security so far;
- Be fluent in English.
How to Apply
Interested applicants are requested to fill in and send the attached questionnaire and their CV via email.
Eligible Countries
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine.
For more information, please visit OSCE.