Judges receive human rights training

Programme aims to enhance capacity of Balochistan judges, prosecutors

QUETTA:

Around 20 Additional District and Sessions judges, Judicial Magistrates and Civil Judges participated in a 3-day interactive training workshop on the topic of Human Rights Safeguards in the Administration of Justice in Balochistan.

The training was organized by the Balochistan Judicial Academy in collaboration with EU-funded Huqooq-e-Pakistan project. The training was inaugurated by the Registrar Balochistan High Court and DG Balochistan Judicial Academy, Rashid Mehmood. Justice Nazeer Ahmed Langove of the Balochistan High Court provided the concluding remarks and awarded certificates to qualifying judges.

The program aims at a province-wide intervention by building the capacity of all trial court judges and public prosecutors from all districts of Balochistan through a total of 14 trainings that will run at BJA through 2021. The trainings will be delivered by senior judges from the Balochistan High Court, senior lawyers, prominent experts in the criminal justice sectors and experts from HeP and BJA.

The objective of the training program is to enhance the capacity of judges and prosecutors in applying human rights standards in the administration of justice and incorporating the same in judgment writing. The training modules and manual were developed by experts from HeP under the supervision of HeP Executive Director Ali Dayan Hasan.

Trial Court Judges and Public Prosecutors from Balochistan will be trained on a range of areas including the application of human rights within Pakistan’s criminal justice system and the role of trial courts in upholding human rights standards, witness protection and incorporating human rights principles in judgement writing.

Eminent experts such as HeP Expert Justice (Retired) Mehta Kailash Nath Kohli delivered lectures on the importance of human rights and the role of trial court judges in its application.

Inaugurating the training, Rashid Mehmood Registrar BHC and DG BJA commended the efforts made by Huqooq-e-Pakistan project team across Balochistan.”

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th, 2021.