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'International Law in Advocacy’ is a Human Rights House Network’s program devoted to human rights education of lawyers and HR defenders. The program was started by several HRHN members with the aim to educate lawyers and HR defenders in international human rights protection, to facilitate the implementation of international human rights standards in national practice and to provide better protection for HR defenders and victims of fundamental rights violations.
Two projects have been developed under this program, namely:
‘Bring International Standards Home’ The project for Belarusian human rights defenders and lawyers focuses on teaching the participants the application of international and constitutional human rights law. It was started in 2006 and continues until the present day.
‘Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers’
The primary goal of the project is to provide systematic electronic human rights education for lawyers and enable them to apply international human rights standards in daily litigations on the national level. The project aims to: • promote a greater understanding of HR law among lawyers; • advance access to HR information through electronic communication channels; • improve the quality of lawsuits through the use of correct HR based approach; • improve communications lodged to international bodies; • contribute to the consolidation of joint initiatives between lawyers and HR defenders.
The project was started in 2007 by HRHN and, thanks to the financial support of the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is now being implemented as a pilot project in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Russia.
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