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What does the section do?

The purpose of this section is to increase the knowledge and understanding of member and partner organizations in all different fields of human rights. This should enable them to carry out their specific work for the protection of human rights in a more efficient and effective way.

The section also works for increasing the capacities of its members with regard to project management and institutional capacity building.

For reaching these goals, CSHRN disposes of different types of working methods; it offers different specifically tailored educational programs for its member organizations and has at their disposal a pool of around 50 trainers.

For each of the manuals published by CSHRN, the specialists who had elaborated the draft for the manuals, are acting after the completion of the manual as master trainers. They teach selected persons of the different member organizations on the content of the human rights manuals and enabled them thereby to become trainers themselves....Continued...

In a seminar 20-30 participants are gathered for the purpose of getting familiar with a specific topic of human rights. There are two different kinds of seminars:
The first kind is a gathering of participants interested in learning about a specific topic of human rights. Firstly, the participants are educated on this topic according to the educational...Continued...

Conferences are gatherings where more than 50 persons participate in order to study some thematic issues of human rights of importance for civil society in Afghanistan. The purpose of a conference is to compile the knowledge and experiences of member organizations regarding specific human rights issues. To organize such conferences, CSRHN...Continued...

The knowledge of conducting human rights schools was brought to Afghanistan by the Danish Institute for Human Rights (for more information, refer please to www.humanrights.dk), which has experiences in this field from its work in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asian countries.

During these Human Rights Schools, specific human rights issues are treated in depth. The...Continued...

Human rights manuals are the educational materials elaborated and used by CSRHN. Each manual consists of two parts. The first part deals with thematic issues of human rights. The second part explains the methodology of how to teach these human rights topics. The content of human rights manuals is derived from the Universal Declaration of...Continued...

In an exhibition, pictures of active human rights personalities as well as paintings symbolizing human rights, are presented for a number of days to illustrate the human rights situation in Afghanistan. The goal of exhibitions is to encourage human rights defenders and to show the reality of the human rights situation as well as the challenges and lessons learnt in...Continued...

A workshop consists of 15 to 25 persons. During the workshops, which are facilitated by trainers of CSHRN, the theory and practice of human rights in Afghanistan are discussed. For these workshops, participants are divided for a certain time into working groups, where they discuss the human rights topics, in particular the way they are implemented in the country and play role games....Continued...

The working groups are organized according to the needs of CSRHN. The working groups work on human rights, civil society, state, national legislation, and international legislation with regard to human rights.
There are two kinds of working groups. The first kind is for specific issues such as the manuals. Those working groups meet once or twice in the CSRHN office with the...Continued...