The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) is organizing an advanced international training program called the Regional Programme on Human Rights of Women 2005 that is meant to be an intensive training course designed to give participants an overview of international human rights law as it pertains to women. The Regional Programme on Human Rights of Women 2005 will be held in Lund, Sweden between October 10th and November 4th, 2005 and in Kiev, Ukraine from May 15th-19th, 2006 and is now open for applications.
Arranged for the first time in 2005 into two separate phases, the first phase in Lund, Sweden will ask participants to formulate in writing individual plans of action that identify obstacles to implementing international human rights standards in their home countries that take into particular focus an issue or area relevant to their own organizations.
Phase two will be in Kiev, Ukraine with the cooperation of the Institute of International Relations at the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, and will follow up on the plans of action formulated in Lund.
The countries that are invited to apply for the program are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia and Montenegro (including Kosovo), Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
For more information and applications to the Programme, please see the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law website.
Compiled from: Training Program on Human Rights, Network of East-West Women-Polska/NEWW. 20 May 2005.
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Regional Programme on Human Rights of Women.