Sindh launches human rights training programme for 750 judges, prosecutors
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Friday Apr 02, 2021
Participants and organisers of the inaugural training at the Sindh Judicial Academy in Karachi. Photo: Courtesy Huqooq-e-Pakistan
KARACHI: A training programme has been launched in Sindh to enhance the capacity of judges and prosecutors in applying human rights standards in the administration of justice and incorporating it in judgement writing.
Judicial magistrates along with 10 prosecutors participated in a three-day interactive training workshop on Human Rights Safeguards in the Administration of Justice in Sindh . The training was organized by the Sindh Judicial Academy in collaboration with EU-funded Huqooq-e-Pakistan project.
Human rights training project launched for judges, prosecutors in Sindh
Karachi
April 2, 2021
Fifteen judicial magistrates along with 10 prosecutors participated in a tree-day interactive training workshop on ‘Human Rights Safeguards in the Administration of Justice in Sindh’.
The Sindh Judicial Academy (SJA), in collaboration with the EU-funded Huqooq-e-Pakistan (HeP) project, organised the training. The training aimed at a province-wide intervention by building the capacity of 300 trial court judges and 360 public prosecutors from all districts of Sindh through a total of 22 pieces of training that will run at the SJA through the year.
Senior Sindh High Court lawyers, prominent experts in criminal justice and experts from the HeP and the SJA will impart training whose objective is to enhance the capacity of judges and prosecutors in applying human rights standards to the administration of justice and incorporating the same in judgment- writing.