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Youth from the region attended the Summer School on European standards on freedom of expression

An online Regional Summer School on European standards: freedom of expression and freedom of the media has been organised from 12 to 16 July 2021 and attended by law and political science students and young professionals from the Western Balkans.

 

The Summer School raised awareness and improved knowledge on information on media system, roles and responsibilities of various actors in this field. Simultaneously, this programme contributed to understanding of European standards, their importance for functioning of democratic societies and pluralistic media landscapes, understanding information that media actors but also citizens encounter and create.

 

This 5-days course provided knowledge on: freedom of expression, the most relevant and related rights and standards, such as access to the information of public importance, right to privacy, data protection media and democracy, hate speech, media pluralism, investigative journalism, safety of journalists, ethical standards, protection of whistleblowers, gender and media, protection of minors, Internet and artificial intelligence.

 

Participants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo* and Serbia took part in interactive discussions and presentations on the European media standards stemming from the European Convention on Human Rights, a number of other EU and Council of Europe legal instruments, including relevant case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, also gaining practical skills in use of relevant data bases, such Platform for safety of journalists and HUDOC.

 

 

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.

 

The online Summer school was organised in the framework of joint European Union and the Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey (2019-2022) and its action on “Freedom of Expression and the Media in South-East Europe (JUFREX)” which aims to promote freedom of expression and freedom of the media in the Western Balkans, in line with European standards in this domain;

 

 

 

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.

western balkans 12-16 July 2021
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Fifty practitioners to enhance skills in provision of occupational therapy

Following the adoption of the Guidelines for Occupational Therapy (OT), as well as the Training of Trainers (ToT) on OT that took place in January 2024, three 2-day cascade training sessions were organised in the course of February and March 2024.  Fifty professionals, mainly from the Prison Health Department, along with representatives from the Correctional Services, Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, and the Special Institute for Persons with Mental and Physical Disabilities, were trained on this important form of therapy.

To complement the theoretical aspects and provide the trainees with practical knowledge, some of the sessions were conducted in the Dubrava Prison, in a section which houses prisoners with both mental and somatic problems. This on-site training allowed the participants to observe and understand the application of OT principles in a real-life setting, thus enhancing their learning experience by connecting theory and practice.

These cascade training sessions allowed the participants to further improve their skills in applying the OT Guidelines and tools in prisons and other closed institutions, a concept which was thus far not utilised in a structured manner. Furthermore, training healthcare and correctional professionals together helps them further strengthen the inter-institutional cooperation in the treatment and rehabilitation of some of the most vulnerable members of the society.

Each of these sessions were facilitated by two trainers who had participated in the ToT in January and were supervised and mentored by a Council of Europe consultant who has been involved in the process since the very beginning, thus further strengthening institutional capacity to provide training.

The activity was conducted under the auspices of the Council of Europe project “Improvement of the treatment of persons deprived of liberty”.

 

 

*All references to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions, or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United National Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.

Istog/ Istok 26 March 2024
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