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DCAF Releases Training Resources on Penal Reform and Gender
This latest release focuses on Penal Reform and Gender and marks the 11th component of the training package. DCAF's press release offers more details on the contents:
- Key terms and messages for training on penal reform and gender
- 11 training exercises, from 20 to 75 minutes, suitable for use in a training on penal reform and gender, or in a gender training session
- Topics and tips for facilitating discussions on penal reform and gender
- Case studies from Afghanistan, the Russian Federation and South Africa
- A list of additional training resources on penal reform and gender.
- Developed as a companion to the Gender and SSR Toolkit, the Gender and SSR Training Resource Package is a series of practical training materials to help trainers to integrate gender into SSR training, and to deliver effective gender training to security sector audiences.
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Event on "Human Rights & Humanitarian Law: Conflict or Convergence?" - April 7, 2010
- The decades since the Second World War have been the ‘Age of Human Rights’ and it is one of the proudest achievements of international law that this development has placed the rights and well-being of the individual at the heart of international law and relations in a way which would have been inconceivable not long ago. Yet within international law, human rights law is not alone in having the welfare of the individual as its priority; international humanitarian law has long sought to protect the individual from the worst excesses of war. Are these two bodies of law mutually exclusive ? Do they conflict or are they capable of of playing complementary roles ? Judge Greenwood will draw on his experience both as an academic and a practitioner in addressing these questions.
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Event at NDU: The Monopoly of Force: Nexus Between DDR and SSR
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP at NDU's website. ()
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Spotlight on the Earthquake in Haiti
At this time, many of us feel helpless to assist. However, there is something we can all do right now. There is a massive humanitarian operation underway right now and funding is needed for rescue efforts and to provide healthcare, food, shelter and water to those affected by the earthquake. If you are based in the US, you can donate by texting Haiti, H-a-i-t-i, to 90999 and $10 will automatically be billed to your cell phone. For those outside the US, you can also donate to aid agencies working in Haiti right now. The following sites have links to some of them:
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Two New CRs Released: Reforming Bar Assocations, International Standards that Relate to Detentions
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