Sudan Monitor
A Quarterly Newsletter of the
Sudan Human Rights Association (SHRA)
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The Sudan Monitor A Quarterly Newsletter of the Sudan Human Rights Association (SHRA) |
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Personnel Training Seminar Held
For two days, 30-31 August, 1999, SHRA conducted its fourth personnel training seminar for community leaders in refugee camps and the displaced in Sudan. The seminar brought together 27 participants drawn from Imvepi camp, Rhino Camp, the self-settled refugees of Koboko as well as representatives from among the displaced living in southern Sudan. This seminar was unique in that for the first time SHRA was conducting a workshop upcountry and meeting the participants on there own ground. Conducted at Ombachi Self Help Secondary School in Koboko Town of North Western Uganda, the training was focused on empowering participants with basic knowledge on human rights principles and skills for promoting peace building among the Sudanese people. As leaders in their communities the seminar aimed at imparting to the participants the skills and knowledge with which they can assist members of their communities to resolve local conflicts using both legal and non-legal remedies. To this end the seminar addressed topics on human rights concepts and principles, conflict resolution skills and methods, asylum determination procedures, refugee rights, life skills for coping with the effects of displacement and how to monitor, document and report human rights abuses that occur in the refugee communities.
The highly participatory seminar took into consideration the expectations of the participants that were enlisted at the beginning of the workshop and dealt with the core topics using various methods which included mini-lectures, brainstorming sessions, case studies in groups, role plays and story telling.
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Volume 4 Issue No.3 September 1999
INSIDE: Insecurity Hampers Self Reliance Initiatives Tribal Clashes Stemming New Refugee Influxes Testimonies of Refugees’ experiences Aerial Bombings Continue Unabated As 50 Years of theGeneva Convention are Marked The Political Crisis of Africa and the Refugee Problem
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