On 22 November, the Council of Europe Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) was presented to the students of the Institute for International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, Ukraine. The presentation was attended by a mixed group of Ukrainian and international students of the Institute.
The introductory remarks were provided by Alla Fedorova, associate professor at the Institute and HELP national tutor of several courses launched in Ukraine.
The presentation started with an introduction to the work of the Council of Europe and an overview of the HELP online courses, emphasising the benefits of the use of the HELP courses as educational material for university students. It was followed by a questions and answers session with the students.
The students of the Institute already benefit from several HELP courses, including the course on Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights, the course on Admissibility criteria in applications submitted to the European Court of Human Rights and the course on Labour Rights.
A HELP Training-of-Trainers session for the Institute’s academic staff is planned for the first half of 2020, in view of intensifying the cooperation between the Institute and the Council of Europe HELP Programme and the increased use of the HELP courses by the Institute.
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On 23 November 2019, the Ukrainian version of the HELP course Key human rights principles in bioethics was launched for a pilot group of 25 lawyers. The course was launched within the framework of a seminar organised under the Project. The seminar was attended by 50 participants, amongst whom lawyers, medical professionals and academicians.
The course will be tutored by Iryna Seniuta, national expert on the topic. The Council of Europe work on in the area of Bioethics was introduced to the participants by Katrin Uerpmann from the Council of Europe Bioethics Unit. This was followed by a series of presentations by acclaimed international experts and by an interesting discussion with the participants.
Following the completion of this pilot edition of the course, in 2020 the course will be rolled out for up to 100 lawyers.
The Council of Europe HELP course Key human rights principles in Biomedicine was published on the HELP online platform in September 2018. Since then, more than 130 legal professionals followed it as tutored course and more than 60 users of the HELP platform benefitted from the course in the self-learning mode.
The course is composed of 8 modules:
- Introduction
- Free and Informed Consent
- Medical Confidentiality and Protection of Health-related Data
- Protection of the Embryo and Procreation
- End of Life
- Genetic Testing
- Biomedical Research
- Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues
Council of Europe HELP course Key human rights principles in Biomedicine
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