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## FEATURE ##

Human Rights and the Police: A Training Manual

This manual is being used in basic courses at police academies in Denmark.
It offers a course framework and various useful overheads and handouts. The
course consists of two parts: "Life, Freedom, and Liberty and Security of
Person" (freedom of assembly, use of force, right to life) and "Equal
Rights" (rights of refugees, protection against discrimination). The manual
includes overheads and handouts on the European and UN systems, methods of
investigation, questions concerning detainees' rights, and the
"Rockerloven" and "Jersild" cases in Denmark.

* Human Rights and the Police: A Training Manual by Anette Faye Jacobsen
and Diego Bang (Danish Centre for Human Rights, 1999). Language(s): English.
Keywords: training manual, police, law enforcement officials, right to
life, security of person, freedom of assembly, rights of refugees,
discrimination, European system of human rights protection, Council of
Europe, European Court of Human Rights, European Convention on Human
Rights, Denmark. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/law_enforcement/dchr99.html

## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LIBRARY ##

New additions in weeks 16-28 February 2001:

* Amnesty International Fair Trials Manual (London: Amnesty
International-International Secretariat, 1998). Language(s): English,
Spanish. Keywords: manual, lawyers, right to a fair trial, monitoring,
Amnesty International. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/legalprofessions/fairtrial.html

* Gender, HIV and Human Rights: A Training Manual by Madhu Bala Nath (New
York: UNIFEM, 2000). Language(s): English, French, Spanish. Keywords:
training manual, training of trainers, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health,
sexual health, human rights and development, right to development, right to
health, women's rights, UNIFEM. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/women/unifem00.html

* Human Rights Education Newsletter, Issue Nr. 24, Autumn 1999 (published
by the Education in Human Rights Network/Centre for Global Education,
United Kingdom). Language(s): English. Keywords: HRE programmes, networking,
reviews, events. URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Library/HREnewsletter/index.html

* What is Documentation. Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation Series,
Volume 2 by Manual Guzman and Bert Verstappen (Versoix: HURIDOCS, 2001).
Language(s): English, French. Keywords: manual, monitoring, human rights
monitors, human rights documentation, information handling. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/monitoring/huridocs01.html

## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CALENDAR ##

New courses added:

* XIX Curso Interdisciplinario en Derechos Humanos
Dates: 18-29 June 2001
Level: professional
Focus: The theme of the 19th interdisciplinary course on human rights is
political participation. Working language is Spanish.
Location: San José (Costa Rica)
Deadline of application: 30 April 2001
Organisation: Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/140.html

* Intensive Course in Health and Human Rights
Dates: 11-14 June 2001
Level: professional
Focus: This rigorous 4-day program helps a wide range of professionals
acquire the skills and background knowledge they
need to successfully incorporate a human rights framework into their daily
activities. Participants will acquire a basic understanding of both the
history and present status of international human rights and international
humanitarian law as they apply to public health practice.
Location: Boston (USA)
Deadline of application: --
Organisation: Harvard School of Public Health
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/222.html

* Seminar on internally displaced persons, refugees, and national minorities
Dates: 6-12 May 2001
Level: professional
Focus: The seminar will concentrate on the plight of internally displaced
persons and refugees, as well as on the situation
of national minorities from the perspective of international human rights
instruments and legislation. The working language will be Russian, with, if
need be, interpretation into and from English.
Location: Tbilisi (Georgia)
Deadline of application: --
Organisation: International Association of Lawyers of the Caucasus,
Netherlands Helsinki Committee
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/224.html

* Workshop on the Procedures of the African Human Rights System
Dates: 21-30 May 2001
Level: professional
Focus: Topics covered during this workshop for human rights workers in
southern and Eastern Africa will include an introduction to the
international and comparative law of human rights; the African regional
system for human rights protection; domestic application of international
law; economic and social rights; the state reporting procedure before the
African Commission on Human and
Peoples' Rights; the individual complaints procedure under the African
Charter; special procedures of the African Commission including its
missions and special rapporteurs; the African Court On Human And Peoples'
Rights; and other recent developments in the African regional system.
Location: Johannesburg (South Africa)
Deadline of application: 1 April 2001
Organisation: Institute for Human Rights & Development
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/219.html

## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LINKS ##

* Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights (Croatia) [in English and
Serbo-Croat]: http://www.zamir.net/~czmos/

* Fazaldad Human Rights Institute (Pakistan) [in English]:
http://www.fazaldad.com/

* Institut International des Droits de l'Homme (IIDH) (France) [in English
and French]:
http://www.iidh.org

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