HRDN Training

12 - 17 December, 2006
Amman, Jordan

As part of our efforts to establish and manage a Human Rights Defenders Network in Iraq, Iraq Foundation held a 6 day training in Amman Jordan for a group of 15 non governmental organizations (NGOs) on December 12-17, 2006. IF selected NGOs with mandates that included the protection of the rights of women, children, and religious and ethnic minorities. The NGOs came from different Iraqi areas, including Baghdad, Wasit, Najaf, Nasriya, Anbar, Diyalaa, Salah el Din, and Kirkuk. A representative from the Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) also participated in the training that focused on developing and strengthening the monitoring, reporting, and advocacy skills and capacities of the human rights NGOs that attended the event, equipping them with international tools and methods, and connecting them together and with international and regional organizations, IF partnered with the Brussels-based, Human Rights Without Frontiers, to carry out this training and invited a group of distinguished regional and international human rights trainers to deliver the training, including Professor Mohamed Y. Mattar, Adjunct Professor of Law and Executive Director of The Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.