different homes as well as how to improve the human rlghts of the inmates of these different homes. lH00-BRIT lSH TRAINING PROJECT ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRISON MANAGEMENT (F) 13.20 The Commksion, in collaboration with the British Council in India, the Bureau of Police Research & Development, and two non-governmental organlsations, viz., PRAJA and ICPS organised a training project on "Human Rights and Prisons Managemenr. The aim of the project was to bring together prison officials and improve phon management systems with special reference to promoting good pradices and gender serWtMty In jail managemnt. 13.21 Sixteen senior officials awociated with p r i m effalrs were salsctgd as trainees for a study tour of UK prisona for two weeks in January 1889.The trainees are to serve as a national resource for further training of trainees in India.Tha project was designed to help Indian prison officials learn from the experience of the United Kingdom in areas of prison management and to help bring about attitudinerl and behavloural changes in management practices. Issues such as sentence planning, inmate development, pre-release initiatives, promoting appropriate values in prison staff, the care of pri8oll~)rsand help to them to become self-supportingafter release, were the focus of attention during the training. The t r a i m s designed a 3-day human rights training module dong with appropriate tralning materEals and were expected to organise sixteen, 3day human rlghts Wning courses from April 1999 to train 320 prison officials. The Commission is continuing its follow up of the project to inculcate human rights values in penal administration. (G) SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS 13.22 The Commission continued to organise seminars and workshops to enhance an understandingof human rights and to support the activities of non-gwernrnental organisations and academic institutions to this effect. 13.23 A Workshop was organised in ass~ciationwith UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in New Delhi on 30 May 1998 on the subject of refugees and displaced persons. It was the view of the Workshop that the growing number of such persons represented a failure to resolve conflicts and t h l r underlying causes such as intolerance and poverty. Further, incorrect and insensitive development models had also contributed to a new population of displaced persons within and between countries, who required proper rehabilitation. The Workshop stressed the need for good governance and humane management of refugee situations. The need was also stressed for domestic laws wMch reduced the areas of official administrative discretion and made for expadhiom handling of asylum request^. It was also 1