Gambia: ICJ Trains Human Rights Activist on Trial Observation

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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has organised a three day training workshop for human rights defenders across the world. The human rights defenders converged in Geneva, Switzerland, from Wednesday 2 December to Friday 4 December 2009. The trial observation training was conducted in the English, Arabic and Spanish languages and the trainer was Paul Richmond, a British human rights lawyer and a member of International Bar Association (IBA).

The trainees were drawn from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Botswana, The Gambia, Uganda, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen, Thailand, Norway and Italy. However, it was only Uzbekistan, Thailand and Venezuela that send two representatives from different human rights organisations, the other countries had one representative each.

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