55 representatives of responsible ministries, the People’s Advocate, the Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination, the School of Magistrates, the School of Advocates, the Police Academy and civil society successfully concluded on 5 and 12 February two HELP online courses on Business and Human Rights and on Asylum and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), respectively. Both courses were launched in September 2017.

The HELP/UNHCR course on Asylum and the ECHR was developed in the framework of the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) to cover key provisions and related case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which are particularly relevant for asylum-seekers and refugees. The course is available free of charge on the HELP e-learning platform in English, French, Albanian, Bulgarian, Flemish, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Turkish.

The HELP platform course on Business and Human Rights has been also translated into Albanian and it is made available on the HELP platform website. Both courses are accessible free of charge.

Both courses were part of the EU/CoE Joint Programme “Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Albanian System of Human Rights Protection and Anti-discrimination”, with the engagement of HELP in the Western Balkans. The course on Asylum and the ECHR was carried out in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Tirana.