Increasing the human rights knowledge of the Armed Forces of Montenegro through OSCE Mission’s training program
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in partnership with the Defence Ministry of Montenegro, organized pre-deployment human rights training for personnel from the Armed Forces of Montenegro who will be engaged in upcoming international missions. The training was held on 4th and 5th September 2014, in Danilovgrad.
Some 22 women and men from the Armed Forces and the Defence Ministry were trained on human rights and obligations under international humanitarian law. Specific training focused on international conventions for human rights and the commitments made by participating states under the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security.
The Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Janina Hrebickova, commended the on-going defence sector reform within Montenegro and its respect for human rights, democratic values, and international legal commitments. She emphasized the long term potential that this training provides for the unification of human rights and gender issues into general policies, as well as training programmes and education curricula for all of the security and Armed Forces.
Mevludin Nuhodzic, the Chair of the Committee for Security and Defence of the Parliament of Montenegro, stated that the Parliament will pay particular attention to uphold human rights of the Armed Forces, as an indispensable element to further security and defence reform. He added that the Committee gives full support to the training and its development into a standardized pre-deployment programme for international missions, as well as for the regular Army and Police forces.
The Committee for Security and Defence of the Parliament of Montenegro, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre (CPC) and the Centre for European Security Studies (CESS) from the Netherlands supported the training.