DILI, 21 August 2023 ( TATOLI)– Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) hosts the 31st of the Annual Human Rights & People’s Diplomacy Training Program ( DTP) in Timor – Leste.
The Executive Director of JSMP Ana Paula said the objective of DTP is to share the experience of the violence of human resources faced by each country for solidarizing each other when facing the violence of Human Rights.
“Civil society advocacy, peoples’ diplomacy, is vital in promoting and defending shared values of human dignity expressed in international human rights standards. Advocacy, engagement, and solidarity are key drivers of accountability and better governance,” the Executive Director of JSMP Ana Paula told reporters at the Sao Paulo meeting room, Tera – Santa Dili, on monday.
She explained the two-week 31st Annual Human Rights and People’s Diplomacy Training Program for Human Rights Defenders from the Asia-Pacific Region and Indigenous Australia is a partnership between the Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) and the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), the Pacific Islands Association of NGOs (PIANGO), Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), The Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) and the UNTL Human Rights Centre.
“This annual, comprehensive human rights and advocacy course is the longest-established human rights training program held in the region. It builds knowledge of international human rights standards and the UN system and skills in strategic advocacy,” she added.
At the same place Human Right Minister of Myanmar Aung Myo Min as the speakers said this course will increase the capacity of civil society advocates to use human rights standards and to engage effectively with governments and others – local, national, and international to build solidarity networks.
The program will build practical links between advocates in the region. It will focus on contemporary human rights challenges including violence against women, SOGI, land-grabbing and forced displacements, freedom of religion and freedom of association, the rights of migrant workers and of Indigenous peoples, transitional justice, protecting human rights and human rights defenders in repressive and authoritarian environments and integrating human rights into the sustainable development goals and advocacy on climate change.
“Holding this program in Timor-Leste strengthens the domestic movement for human rights and enables international participants to learn the lessons from Timor-Leste’s successful struggle for solidarity and self-determination, to seek justice and build reconciliation and peace,” he concluded
The DTP 31st was participated by the 5 countries from India, Fiji, Myanmar, Australia, and Timor – Leste from 21 august to 1 September 2023 with material training such as; international human rights law and principles, including civil and political, economic, social, and cultural rights; Understanding of the relationship between development, poverty, and human rights, the human rights-based approach to development; Practical skills in engaging the UN human rights accountability mechanisms and UN system; Practical skills in strategic advocacy, lobbying, media, and ‘peoples’ diplomacy’.
Journalist : Camilio de Sousa
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