BAKU, 10 October 2018 – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) continues training sessions for representatives of civil society organisations and legal community to build their capacity and increase their knowledge on the UN human rights system and institutions, as well as about their role in the participatory mechanisms.

These sessions, held with financial of the European Union Delegation to Azerbaijan, provide overview of the UN specialised bodies and their mandates, legal analysis of the UN Treaty Bodies Concluding Observations, as well as modalities of the participation of national actors in the UN Human Rights mainstreaming.

Representatives of the civil society organisations and members of legal community also received the training print-out materials, as well as recent OHCHR publications translated into Azerbaijani language.