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    Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE)
    http://www.osce.org/
    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
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