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The IV Summer Human Rights School, which was organized by the Moscow Helsinki Group and the  International Youth Human Rights Movement from 3rd to 10th of July in Moscow, finished at last week. The School brought together human rights defenders and civil activists, volunteers and experienced NGO’s workers and those, who work in human rights state institutes.  

Participants of the School came from different cities of Russia: from Kaliningrad to Sakhalin - and all over post-soviet area. In a trainer teem were Andrey Yurov, the head of the School, Igor Sazhin, trainer and chief methodologist, the head of Komy Human Rights Commission of “Memorial”, Nina  Tagankina, the main expert of the School, executive director of Moscow Helsinki Group, experts of Ryazan Human Rights School  Sophia Ivanova  and Alexandr Bekhtold.   

The main blocks were about postulates of Human Rights theory, mechanisms of its defense, action technology to protection of public interests and key aspects of Human Rights defense. During some sessions participants learned Conception of Human Integrity, anti-discrimination methods,  xenophobia and racism especially in education.

On the 11th of July YHRM participants Dmitry Makarov and Anna Dobrovolskaya held seminar about new ways of using different media tools for Human Rights and civil interests protection. Moreover examples of successful using of new media in Human Rights protection were presented.

The presentation of organizations, which members were delegated to School, took an important place. There were legal clinics, Committee of Soldiers Mothers, Memorial Human Rights Center, Humanist Youth Movement, LGBT organization “Vykhod” (Coming out), “Man and Law”, Committee against torture, “Foundation of regional initiatives” and some others. Besides, workers of regional ombudsman institute and agents of the Federal Penitentiary Service Office.