1. HELP Developments & HELP course on Violence Against Women Ana Medarska-Lazova, Strasbourg, 18 October 2018
31/12/2018

2. HELP’s goal
HELP judges, prosecutors and lawyers to apply European human rights standards in their daily work, mainly by training
ECHR + ESC + CoE legislation + EU law for EU
+ EU Charter and EU law for EU countries

3. HELP is: 
the only pan-European Network of national training institutions for judges, prosecutors and lawyers in the 47 Member States;
online courses on human rights;
a human rights training methodology for legal professionals.

4. Free e-learning platform and courses
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You can access learning materials at
Example: click this asylum course

5. ENROLLED IN THE HELP ONLINE PLATFORM
ENROLLED IN THE HELP ONLINE PLATFORM
Out of which 6.320
TRAINED BY HELP TUTORS

6. Number of new subscribers in the HELP e-learning Platform
Average per month Total per year
ONLY AS OF jUNE

7. Catalogue of HELP Courses
International Cooperation in Criminal Matters
Internally Displaced Persons
Labour Rights as Human Rights
Pre-trial Investigation in light of the ECHR
Prohibition of Ill-treatment
Procedural safeguards in criminal proceedings and victims’ rights (early 2019)
Property Rights
Refugee and Migrant Children
Reasoning of (Criminal) Judgments
Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Right to Liberty and Security (Article 5)
Right to Respect for Private and Family Life (Article 8)
Right to the Integrity of the Person (Bioethics)
Transitional Justice
Violence Against Women
Women’s Access to Justice
Admissibility criteria in applications submitted to the ECtHR
Alternative measures to detention
Anti-discrimination
Asylum and the ECHR
Key human rights principles in biomedicine
Business and Human Rights
Child-friendly Justice
Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings
Counterfeiting of Medical Products
CPT Standards (2019)
Data Protection and Privacy Rights
Drugs and Human Rights (2019)
Family Law (interactive version 2018)
Fight against Racism, Xenophobia, Transphobia
Freedom of Expression
Hate crime and Hate speech
Human Rights in Sports
Introduction to the ECHR and ECtHR

8. HELP course Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence
Developed in 2017, jointly by the CoE Violence Against Women Division and the HELP Programme
4 international experts

9. HELP course Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence
Focus on Istanbul Convention
Target groups:
primarily addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers and senior court staff)
also useful for the police, forensic services, civil society organisations, media and other professionals working in the field

10. HELP Violence Against Women: structure

11. HELP Violence Against Women: available languages

12. Launched in … Ukraine Armenia x 2 Georgia x 2 Slovenia Montenegro
Plans:
Poland – December 2018
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – December 2018
Portugal – by the end of 2018
Bosnia and Herzegovina – by the end of 2018/early 2019
Arabic – early 2019
Italian – early 2019
Slovakia
Ukraine
Armenia x 2
Georgia x 2
Slovenia
Montenegro

13. Join us: Web, Facebook & Twitter #HELP
coe.int/help facebook.com/CoEHELP/ twitter.com/CoEHELP

14. HELP Thank you very much for your attention!
Good training for good judgments
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