Projects 2003
Date: January 2000-May 2003
Location: Russia; Nottingham
Unit: European Human Rights Law
Core Staff: Patrick Twomey, Former HRLC Co-Director
Funder: Department for International Development
Project Summary
The project was designed to improve the monitoring of, and report-writing on, Russia’s compliance with human rights standards, by increasing the relevant expertise of participating Russian NGOs. A series of 10 workshops were held across Russia on monitoring skills, human rights standards (covering a range of substantive topics) and NGO capacity-building, as well as a study visit and workshop on monitoring of policing in Belfast. Selected NGO’s also engaged in a pilot monitoring exercise. The project activities contributed to the creation of a collection of human rights training materials which were widely disseminated to relevant IGO’s and NGO’s. Funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).
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Date: June 2001- May 2003
Location: Nottingham
Unit: Post Conflict and Capacity Building
Core Staff: Nigel White, Dirk Klassen
Funders: UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and HRLC
Project Summary
This two-year research project studied the role of the UN in protecting and entrenching human rights in post conflict situations such as in Afghanistan and East Timor, with the aim of producing constructive criticism of UN practice and developing clear and practical guidance for future activities. As part of the project the HRLC convened a 2-day
conference in September 2002 to consider the project research and analysis. The conference papers were published in an edited collection in a book edited by Nigel White and Dirk Klaasen, The UN, Human Rights and Post-Conflict Situations. Jointly funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and HRLC.
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Dates: June 2003
Location: Nottingham
Unit: International Criminal Justice
Core Staff: Olympia Bekou; Rob Cryer
Funders: Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the European Commission.
Project Summary
In June 2003, HRLC co-organised with No Peace Without Justice, a nine-day training course for government and judicial officials, academics and other criminal justice experts from 25 countries on the International Criminal Court regime and its national implementation. The course was funded by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the UK FCO, the European Commission and the HRLC. The training materials prepared for the course were subsequently published.
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Date: 1998-2003
Location: Nottingham; Ukraine
Unit: European Human Rights Law
Core Staff: Patrick Twomey and Olivia Klevan
Funder: Department for International Development (DFID)
Project Summary
The project aimed to foster reform in the Ukrainian criminal justice system (CJS) that would achieve compliance with European Human Rights standards. The project provided training to key actors within the CJS such as judges, lawyers, academics and law students on relevant criminal justice issues. Training workshops were held on the European Convention of Human Rights and non-custodial sentencing, and scholarships were awarded for Ukrainian students to study on the HRLC International Human Rights Law Short Course and the University of Nottingham LLM degree programmes on Human Rights and Criminal Justice. The project produced several publications on fair trials and non-custodial sentencing, and contributed to the establishment of human rights libraries in Ukraine.
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