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Cairo, 19th of October 2008
Press Release
ACIJLP concludes its training program on the role of lawyers
in
“Brining about the application of the ICCPR”
Today,
on October 19th 2008, the activities of the fourth training course for
Egyptians lawyers on " the role of lawyers in Brining about the
application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights
(ICCPR)". The ICCPR was ratified by Egypt in January 14th 1982 and
published in the official gazette on April 15th 1982 and became a part
of the national legislation in Egypt.
This
course is the final one in the training program prepared by the Center,
with a financial fund from the European Union, within the context of
Center’s campaign to activate the provisions of the ICCPR and the role
of legal practitioners - like lawyers, judges and prosecutors - in
moving provisions of the ICCPR for its theoretical side to the
applicable one. In addition to providing lawyers in the Arab Republic of
Egypt with the needed skills to use the international mechanisms of
human rights’ protection and the international conventions before the
national jurisdictions.
This
course deals with many of the rights enshrined in the International
Covenant on Civil and political rights such as the right to life, right
to physical integrity, the right to freedom of opinion and expression,
the right to a fair and equitable trial and the right to freedom of
association. This course will also deal with many practical exercises
like the skills of using the international conventions before national
courts and the skills of the investigations’ attending, proceedings and
the skills of writing notes.
The
events of this final training course are scheduled to proceed until
Tuesday, October 21st 2008. Many lawyers and experts in the
international law, the international human rights law and international
criminal law in addition to activists in the field of human rights, will
assume the training in this course.
Worth mentioning that by the completion of the final course, the number
of lawyers who participated in this program is about 80 male/female
lawyers on varying degrees of enrollment in the Egyptian Bar
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