“Gathering Data on Human Rights Violations and Reaction Mechanisms”: Regional Workshop for activists and professionals from South East Europe countries

The Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA) will conduct a 2-day regional workshop for activists and professionals from South East Europe countries “Gathering data on human rights violations and reaction mechanisms” on March 18-19*, 2020, in Belgrade, Serbia.

The workshop is conducted as part of the three-year multi-country project “Sustainability of Services for Key Populations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia” (#SoS_project).

Goal of the workshop is to equip activists and professionals in South East Europe countries with knowledge on principles and mechanisms of data collection on human rights violations against key populations and follow-up reaction.

Objectives

  1. To discuss the most common human rights violations and gender barriers to access HIV prevention and care services.
  2. To examine methodologies of data collection on human rights violations (cases).
  3. To provide in-depth information on UN treaty bodies and processes of shadow reports submissions.
  4. To understand the follow-up system for its systematic and effective use.

Facilitators of the workshop – Mikhail Golichenko, International Legal Consultant, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and Maria Plotko, Program Officer, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA).

The workshop will gather over 25 activists and professionals from NGOs, human rights and community organizations from 5 South East Europe countries – implementors of the SoS project – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, The Republic of North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia) who are either engaged into the human rights protection work or eager to start working over cases on human rights violations and follow-up reaction on them.

* – due to the current COVID-19 (“coronavirus”) pandemic, the workshop has been canceled on these days. Please follow up our news, the new dates will be announced as soon as situation will be changed.