The 2015 HELP annual Network Conference was focused on inter-professional challenges: “Interactions between legal and other professionals in human rights training”. It was organised under the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ Chairmanship of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At its opening, the Conference was addressed by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and by Dean Spielmann, President of the European Court of Human Rights.
HELP has already developed and is developing many curricula on subject matters which include inter-professional aspects (e.g. the courses on Asylum and Refugees, Bioethics, Children Rights, Alternative Measures to Detention, etc.), but further discussion was needed on how to involve other professionals and their expertise in human rights training.
This is why four working groups were organised on topics like ‘legal professionals and health’ (including bioethics), ‘legal professionals and media’, ‘legal professionals and asylum seekers and refugees’, and ‘legal professionals and the fight against ill-treatment’. At the end of the conference, they came up with conclusions, recommendations and guidelines on human rights training methodology on all these matters.
The annual HELP Network Conference provides a forum for discussions among all members and partners on ways of enhancing training results and concrete implementation at a national level of the European Convention on Human Rights and on how to develop an effective co-operation among all national and international institutions.
- Agenda in English, French and Russian
- Videos of the plenary session: Original, English, French, Russian
- Photo gallery
- Interviews with participants
- Speeches
- Final Report