On July 29 – August 10, 2006 the Second Summer Camp on Human Rights for Law Students took place in Bad Liebenzell (Germany).
Participants of the Camp were 30 students from law faculties of different Belarusian Universities:

• Belarusian State University;
• Belarusian State Economical University;
• Academy of Management of the President of the Republic of Belarus;
• Minsk Institute of Management;
• Polotsk State University;
• Grodno State (Yanki Kupali) University;
• Brest State (Pushkin) University;
• Gomel State (Skoryna) University;
• Academy of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Belarus.

Innovation Foundation of Legal Technologies was the organizer of the event, German organizations European Exchange and Internationales Forum Burg Liebenzell e.V. Akademie fur politische Bildung und internationale Jugendbegegnung were hosts of the Summer Camp. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany has also shown support to the activity.

A special educational program prepared for law students by international experts included the following questions:

• Basic Notions on Human Rights;
• Human Rights in the National Legislation;
• International Mechanisms of Human Rights Protection;
• European System of Human Rights Protection;
• UN System and Mechanisms of Human Rights Protection;
• OSCE Liabilities in the Sphere of Human Rights;
• Right to Fair Trial. Access to Justice. Right to Free Legal Aid;
• Freedom of Assembly;
• Public Interests Protection Actions;
• Sources of Legal Information.

The program of the Summer Camp on Human Rights for Law Students  2006 included lectures, interactive sessions, Open Space Technology was also used during the event. Open Space becomes more and more popular when conducting seminars, conferences, etc. Several OS have been conducted in Belarus, but it was the first event when using such a technology among Belarusian law students.
Technology presupposes that participants introduce questions and problems they would like to work on themselves, organize small groups’ work and decide which of the results acquired are really important for them.
Open Space was organized in such a way that participants of the Summer camp had a possibility to share their thoughts and exchange ideas for further steps for the benefit of public interests protection. Students have defined the following working areas:

• Job placement of graduates and employment of young specialists;
• Individual Constitutional complaint in the Republic of Belarus;
• Creation of the organization that would deal with distribution of knowledge on human rights in the creative format (cartoons, movies, Internet, comics);
• Law clinics to help NGOs and activists;
• Game-trip to the land of OSCE;
• Euthanasia: for and against;
• Rendering free legal aid;
• Rapid changing of Belarusian legislation;
• Continuation of education after the Summer Camp on Human Rights for Law Students;
• Structure of international organizations and perspectives for Belarus joining the Council of Europe, European Union, etc;
• Can one improve the situation with human rights in Belarus and what each one of us can do?

We think that various questions, starting from topics interesting particularly for student youth (Job placement of graduates and employment of young specialists; Individual Constitutional complaint in the Republic of Belarus) and till global geopolitical (Structure of international organizations and perspectives for Belarus joining the Council of Europe, European Union, etc.) have been covered. Many thematic blocks were thoroughly worked through and action plans drafted, some groups have presented real steps to happen – e.g. conduction of a monitoring.
Students have also paid attention to such problems as constantly changing legislation, normative acts that do not necessarily have a good quality. In order to improve legislative process, students proposed to introduce an independent legal expertise, a more professional parliament, etc.

A special part of the Summer Camp was visits to the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of Europe (Strasbourg). It was the first time that Belarusian students could attend an international judicial body that deals directly with human rights protection, as well as the oldest political organization of Europe.
These visits and meetings conducted during the visits were a logical continuation of the theoretical part of the program related to European mechanisms of human rights protection.
During the visits, participants of the Camp met Olga Bobrova, legal assistant of the European Court of Human Rights and Sergei Kuznetsov, member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) of the Council of Europe, who talked about work of the structures mentioned above and answered numerous questions of students.

The number of applications for participation in the Summer Camp, the interest students showed towards the program of the Camp, their activeness during study sessions, questions they raised in discussion allow us to state that there is a great interest among student youth, future lawyers, towards human rights in general and problems of their implementation in various countries, including Belarus.