On 16-17 June 2021, the Council of Europe action “Raising awareness of the Istanbul Convention and other gender equality standards in Azerbaijan” delivered a Human rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Training of Trainers (ToT) for law professors at the Faculty of Law at Baku State University.

The ToT event aimed at equipping the future trainers with the necessary practical skills to effectively tutor HELP courses. Following the general presentation of the HELP Programme and the basics of the HELP training methodology, the participants were introduced to all the practical functions of a HELP national tutor and the effective use the HELP online training platform.

Participants were then presented with the HELP course on violence against women and domestic violence and with the main elements of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) as the main international standard in the field.

The participants who successfully complete the course will become HELP certified trainers and therefore will be able to run the HELP course on Violence Against Women and other courses in Azerbaijan and help raise awareness about the Istanbul Convention and in general on combating violence against women and domestic violence.

This training session was organised in the framework of the project "Raising awareness of the Istanbul Convention and other Gender Equality Standards in Azerbaijan", funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe in their Partnership for Good Governance II.

The Azerbaijani translation and national adaptation of the online course Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence has been produced as part of a project co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe.

For further information on the project, please visit the project’s website.

Further information on PGGII is available on the PGGII’s website.