About 25 new staff are presently undergoing a five-day induction training at the UNAMSIL headquarters conference hall at Mammy Yoko at Aberdeen. Speaking to the Commission’s Director of Education Communication and Training Sylvia George Williams, she explained that the training is essential because “we have a lot of new staff members we want everybody to have some very basic ideas as to what human rights instruments they will be working with”. Madam George Williams explained that the training which will end on Friday will be looking at the various aspects of human rights, “it is going to look at generally what human rights is all about, the different instruments the actors and some specific case study as to what they will be looking for during their cause of investigation… it is just a broad idea training relating to human rights.” The training is not going to be specific it is going to take a holistic conceptual approach on the human rights instruments that the staff will be working with. “The Human Rights officers are going to be the backbone of the Commission, they will be investigating, doing training, and monitoring; they are also going to engage in a whole gamut of activities, some of them will be doing administrative work as well,” she said. Human Rights Commissioner, Rev Moses Kanu maintained that the training is significant in many ways “the trainees are coming from various and diverse backgrounds… It is going to give them focused training on human rights,” the commissioner said. Human rights, he explained “are found in the very fundamentals of religion.”
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