Key to our commitment to protecting human rights in the Kurdish regions is the development of an independent capacity for human rights enforcement in the region.  To this end we have developed a coherent programme of regional training seminars which work to promote the rule of law and democracy by transferring skills and building capacity among human rights defenders and advocates in the regions.

 We have recently:

·    Conducted and hosted a hugely successful London-based Cross-Border training for our partners across the regions, focussing on internally displaced persons, the effects of anti-terror legislation and the protection of human rights defenders 

·    Conducted 3 regional trainings on bringing claims to ECtHR and on the domestic application of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), including our first ever training in Hakkari, south-east Turkey

·    Conducted 2 regional trainings on gender equality and women’s rights

·    Published two training manuals for human rights defenders taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights and taking complaints to the mechanisms of the United Nations. These manuals have just been made available in Turkish, and Russian.

We also run an International Fellowship programme, through which selected advocates from the Kurdish regions come to London to work with our legal team. This allows a further transfer of skills as well as facilitating an exchange of legal and professional expertise, empowering local advocates to bring about lasting change in the human rights climate across the Kurdish Regions. The Fellowship also promotes cultural understanding between advocates within the regions and internationally.

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