Training

We believe that the best advocates for minority rights are members of minority and indigenous communities themselves. This is why we train minority and indigenous activists in how to peacefully advocate for their rights, and support their organizations to become more effective and more accountable.

We have provided intensive training programmes on advocacy and human rights for thousands of minority and indigenous leaders worldwide, starting a sustainable movement for change.

As well as face-to-face training, we have now established an online training course in advocacy skills (available in French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic), which hundreds of activists have completed.

This has enabled even minority and indigenous representatives based in very remote or insecure locations to understand their rights and develop advocacy skills.

Other training programmes have included:

• Training minority rights activists in Asia, Africa and Latin America in communications and campaigning skills.
• Training journalists in Europe on reporting the realities of discrimination faced by minority and indigenous communities.
• Legal training for members of the Roma community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, based on a successful model previously developed in Hungary.
• Online training course for religious minority rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa region, covering minority rights, UN systems and regional structures.

‘When I did your training in minority rights, I did it only to be more empowered as an activist. Little did I dream that this training certificate would catch the attention of the federal government so as to nominate me to the State Minority Commission’ Minority rights activist from Rajasthan, India