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The National camp for human rights for law students was carried out in the period from August, 4 till August, 12, 2005 in place Vorzel in Ukraine .
The organization and holding of the Camp became possible due to support and direct participation in the program of the Ukrainian organizations - partners of the Foundation for Legal Technologies:

  • Public organization "For the professional help" (Kiev, Ukraine) and
  • Public organization Youth alternative M'ART (Chernigov, Ukraine).

Law students  from three countries of Europe - Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia - took part in the camp program . The majority of participants consisted of Belarusian students - thirty people. Three students were from the Chernigov state institute of law, social technologies and labor and they represented the Ukrainian young lawyers, the student from Slovakia represented the Institute  of Kirill and Mefodii.
Experts in the field of human rights from different countries, had prepared special educational program for students who were taking part in camp. Participants acquired knowledge and received skills in the following areas:

  • Philosophy and the basic concepts of human rights;
  • Human rights in the national legislation;
  • The international mechanisms of human rights protection. The European system of human rights protection, and also system of human rights protection within the framework of the United Nations system;
  • Actions for human rights protection;
  • Monitoring, sociological researches on access of the population to legal aid;
  • Psychological basis of human rights activity;
  • The right to fair judicial proceedings-the basic standards. The right to fair court - the right to protection;
  • Freedom from tortures. Human rights in the police activity;
  • Sources of the legal information in Belarus;
  • Human rights in the medicine;
  • The noncommercial organizations in Belarus;
  • Freedom of speech;
  • System of public groups in Belarus that carry out legal actions for the public interests' benefit, etc.

Carrying out of National camp of human rights allowed to fix huge interest  of young people - the future lawyers - to problems of human rights realization in the modern world and in modern Belarus. 



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