On 19 December 2023, over 50 Greek and Bulgarian legal professionals attended the launch of the Council of Europe HELP course on Violence towards Ladies and Home Violence.
The cross-border occasion, held in Athens (Greece), was organised within the framework of the EU-CoE mission “HELP within the EU III”, funded beneath the European Union’s Justice Programme (2021-2027). The occasion was organised by the Council of Europe (CoE), in collaboration with the Athens Bar that hosted the occasion and the Bulgarian Bar.
The occasion was moderated by Thomas Kamenopoulos, Member of the Board of the Athens Bar, former Vice-President and Oana Girlescu, EU-CoE Assist in the EU III Mission Coordinator. It started with introductory remarks from Dimitrios Vervesos, President of the Athens Bar, Ivaylo Dermendzhiev, President of Bulgarian Bar and Boriana Musseva, Lawyer and Head of the Worldwide Regulation and Worldwide Relations Division of the School of Regulation of Sofia College “St. Kliment Ohridski”
They acknowledged the relevance of the subject of the course for the attending legal professionals, given the pervasiveness of gender-based discrimination and violence towards girls in each Greece and Bulgaria. In addition they emphasised the numerous contribution of the Human Rights Training for Authorized Programmes (HELP) Programme within the human rights coaching for legal professionals in each nations, through the years. Thomas Kamenopoulos talked in regards to the different eight launches of HELP programs organised in partnership with the Athens Bar in recent times. Ivaylo Dermendzhiev emphasised the continual collaboration between the Bulgarian and Greek Bars, expressing curiosity in additional collaboration with the Council of Europe on coaching issues, significantly associated to authorized help methods.
A number of interventions related for the subject of the course adopted. Katerina Spanou, Decide on the Athens Administrative Courtroom of First Occasion and previously seconded on the European Courtroom of Human Rights (ECtHR) and Oana Girlescu, EU-CoE HELP within the EU III Mission Coordinator and former case-processing lawyer on the ECtHR talked in regards to the case-law of the ECtHR associated to violence towards girls and home violence. They referred to instances resembling Opuz v. Turkey (2009), Kurt v. Austria (2021) and G.M. and Others v. the Republc of Moldova (2022).
Maria Doncheva, Vice President and Decide on the Sofia Regional Courtroom and HELP licensed tutor talked about Bulgaria’s response to ECtHR instances on the mentioned matter. She centered on Y. v. Bulgaria (2020) and A. E. v. Bulgaria (2023), expressing hope for the nationwide physique specialised on home violence that’s to begin functioning in Bulgaria on 1 January 2024. Boriana Musseva, PhD, Lawyer on the Sofia Bar Affiliation and Head of the Worldwide Regulation and Worldwide Relations Division of the School of Regulation of Sofia College “St. Kliment Ohridski” talked in regards to the cross-border recognition and enforcement of safety measures beneath EU Regulation 606/2013, referring as nicely to different EU devices related for child-care instances.
Deta Petroglou, Lawyer and member of the European Equality Authorized Community mentioned sexual harassment at work as a type of violence towards girls and discrimination on grounds of intercourse. She centered on EU devices and case-law of the Courtroom of Justice of the European Union, mentioning as nicely the relevance of the Istanbul Conference and of the Worldwide Labour Organisation. Maria Andriani Kostopoulou, HELP tutor and President of the Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Motion towards Violence towards Ladies and Home Violence (GREVIO), offered the functioning and the monitoring work of GREVIO, in addition to the HELP course on Violence towards Ladies and Home Violence, which was developed with GREVIO’s assist.
Throughout this launch occasion, the members additionally acquired acquainted with the HELP programme and its on-line platform, which gives greater than 45 programs on human rights. Moreover, the 2 teams met their respective HELP tutors, Maria Andriani Kostopoulou for the Greek group and Dilyana Giteva (lawyer) and Tomislav Toshkov (lawyer and HELP Information Level) for the Bulgarian group. They talked to the members about violence towards girls in Greece and Bulgaria, about their background and pursuits and supplied some insights into the issues to be approached throughout the course.
The tutors will present the members with assist and steerage throughout the next weeks. After the launch occasion, all members have been registered on the devoted course web page and at the moment are prepared to begin the tutored course. HELP certificates, issued by the Council of Europe, the Athens Bar and the Bulgarian Bar, might be awarded to those that efficiently full the course.
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The HELP course on Violence In opposition to Ladies and Home Violence recognises that violence towards girls is a grave violation of human rights and a type of discrimination towards girls. Violence towards girls, together with home violence, happens in each Council of Europe member state and past, regardless of some optimistic developments in regulation, insurance policies and practices.
This HELP course for authorized professionals (judges, prosecutors and legal professionals primarily) covers in an interactive means the important thing ideas, the worldwide and European authorized framework and case regulation governing the prevention and safety of girls and ladies from violence, focusing specifically on the Council of Europe Conference on Stopping and Combating Violence towards Ladies and Home Violence (Istanbul Conference) and incorporating different CoE authorized devices and parts of EU regulation. Moreover, the course offers the authorized professionals with sensible instruments for coping with instances of violence towards girls and home violence with respect to a human rights and sufferer centred method.
This course was developed collectively by the Equality and Human Dignity Division, Violence In opposition to Ladies Division and the HELP Programme of the Council of Europe. The course is accessible on the Council of Europe HELP e-learning platform, in self-learning format, in English, in addition to in a number of different languages. The entry to the programs is free, open and self-paced for professionals who’ve a HELP account (or create one by utilizing this hyperlink). The size of the course is of twelve (12) hours and people who full it will possibly generate a personalised digital Assertion of Accomplishment. A shorter model (6 hour) of the HELP course on Violence towards Ladies and Home Violence for regulation enforcement can also be obtainable.
The course is meant, in the long run, to grow to be an integral a part of the general studying curricula of the nationwide coaching establishments and/or different competent authorities of the CoE member states and past.
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