Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE)
June 30 2006
OSCE Yerevan Office presents its views on human rights to secondary
school teachers
YEREVAN, 30 June 2006 – An OSCE human rights expert shared her
knowledge today with 55 secondary school teachers who are taking a
year-long class on human rights.
Silvia Pogolsa, a Human Rights Officer at the OSCE Office in Yerevan,
delivered a lecture as part of the course, organized annually by the
non-governmental organization Armenian Constitutional
Right-Protective Centre.
That centre has organized a Human Rights School since 1996, and 405
participants, mainly secondary school teachers, have so far taken
part in the programme, which includes 11 months of distance learning
and one month of intensive education.
"OSCE considers human rights and democracy explicit elements of the
overall security framework, assigning them the same level of
importance as politico-military and economic security issues,"
Pogolsa said. "We believe education in and for human rights is one of
the effective means of creating peaceful and stable societies."
The Office donated the latest OSCE publications on human rights and
good governance to the NGO’s Human Rights Library, which consists of
six libraries in different Armenian towns.
The lecture was part of the Office’s human rights education and
public awareness raising programme, which started in 2001. The Office
also has produced documentary movies on human rights issues and
organized public screenings of those movies. It is preparing a series
of Public Service Announcements on torture, tolerance and
non-discrimination and other human rights issues to be broadcast on
national TV-stations starting in September 2006.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
