Deadline for applications: 13 July 2018
Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation (BGRF),
in cooperation with its main partners – the Advocates for Human Rights from Minnesota and Equality Now
are pleased to announce this
Call for Applications to participate in the training programme of the Seventh Round of the Women’s Human Rights Training Institute (WHRTI-7), 2018-2019.
The Institute is a unique education and training programme founded in 2004 and is the first-of-its-kind advanced training programme aimed at building and developing the capacity of young lawyers from Central and Eastern European Europe and the Newly Independent States (CEE/NIS) for litigation on women’s rights issues, including:
– violence against women and domestic violence,
– sexual and reproductive health and rights, and
– social and economic rights, and employment discrimination,
– multiple discrimination
The Institute, organized by the BGRF in cooperation with its partners, has already successfully completed six rounds: WHRTI-1 – 2004-2006, WHRTI-2 – 2007-2009, WHRTI-3 – 2009-2011, WHRTI-4 – 2011-2013, WHRTI-5 – 2014-2016 and WHRTI-6 – 2016-2017, and has trained more than 120 lawyers.
The WHRTI provides the participants advanced and in-depth knowledge and practical exercises on women’s human rights protection in the four main areas noted above. The WHRTI improves their practical skills in legal writing and advocacy (in English) for development of strategic litigation in the region both at the national and international levels through the use of regional and universal human rights mechanisms such as the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
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