Task Force with representatives from the Ministries of Labour and Employment (Chairperson),
External Affairs, Home Affairs, Women and Child Development, and Panchayati Raj; National
Commission for Women, National Human Rights Commission, UNICEF and a few NGOs
working for prevention of trafficking.
TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND WORKSHOPS
National
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Some important workshops and training programmes organized during the period under
review were : workshop on bonded and child labour for senior officials of Central and State
Governments/Union Territories; and Training of Trainers on Human Rights. The Commission
also conducted a two-day attachment programme for Probationers of Indian Foreign Service
during which they were briefed about 'Human Rights'. Besides, it conducted Summer and Winter
Internship programmes of one-month duration for university and college students and short-term
attachment of students interested in the field of human rights. During the period under review, 65
training programmes were organized by the Training Division of the Commission in collaboration
with Administrative Training Institutes, Police Training Institutes, State Human Rights
Commissions, NGOs and other institutions across the country.
International
2.28 A three-day Asian Sub-Regional Workshop on “Using Indicators to Promote and Monitor
the Implementation of Human Rights” was organized from 26 to 28 July 2007 by NHRC in
collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR) and the Institute for Human Development at New Delhi. The Workshop brought
together human rights stakeholders such as National Human Rights Institutions, policy makers,
national statistical agencies and civil society representatives from South Asia.
2.29 The Commission also organized a four-day Sub-Regional Workshop on "National
Inquiries" in association with Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and the
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from 29 October to 1
November 2007 at New Delhi.
Other Meetings
2.30 The year under review also saw several important meetings to discuss and evolve
consensus on ongoing issues such as action and advocacy for the rights of the disabled;
incentives/disincentives in the population policies of State Governments vis-à-vis the National
Population Policy 2000; right to environment; and better coordination with the State Human
Rights Commissions.
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