Take a look at this great training opportnity! Ivana -------------------------- SUBJECT: Youth Training course in FR Yugoslavia International Training course Title: Promotion of Tolerant Inter-Ethnic Relations between Youth of different ethnic origins from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and FR Yugoslavia based on respect of human and minority rights? Novi Sad, FR Yugoslavia 20 November- 27 November 2001 Language of Instruction:English ! Organizer: BalkanIDEA Novi Sad, FR Yugoslavia Co-organizer: Debate club “Privrednik�, Novi Sad THIS TRAINING COURSE IS FINANCED BY THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE Objectives To promote inter-ethnic relations between young people belonging to majority and minority communities from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and FR Yugoslavia.To raise the awareness of young people to questions of human - and, in particular minority rights.To introduce European Court of Human rights (and European Institutions) and European Convention on Human Rights to young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and FR Yugoslavia A seven days schedule is devoted to : >Training course-mornings with the lectures and presentations of the officials from European court of Human Rights and the ones close to the subject and >Discussions -afternoons or after every lecture devoted to the debate on the topics of Minority rights ( detailed at the table of the activities ). During the conference, arguments used by teams in all discussions are going to be gathered and published in the Arguments report. These reports are going to be printed and shared with the participants who are going to distribute them back home. Training course lectures will be concentrated on: Human and Minority Rights > historical development; > European institutions and the protection of human and minority rights; > European and International instruments on human and minority rights protection (including Council of Europe's European Convention on Human Rights, the European Charter on Regional and Minority Languages, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of Europe, etc.); > Transfrontier co-operation instruments, Transfrontier Television Convention (Council of Europe instruments); > Freedom of expression, Social Minorities and Social Charter of Council of Europe. PRACTICALITIES > Board, food and travel costs: - There is NO REGISTRATION or ENROLLMENT FEE!!!!! - Both BOARD, FOOD AND TRAVEL COSTS are provided by the funders and the organizer. - However the travel costs are not going to be reimbursed in case that the participant did not attend more than 90% of the course! > PARTICIPANTS: > 32 young participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and FR Yugoslavia. > Participants should be engaged in a work of any youth, student or similar organization. > Participants should come from following cities and towns: Rijeka, Zagreb, Osijek, Split, Dubrovnik, Subotica, Zrenjanin, Backi Petrovac, Vršac, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Priština, Podgorica, Nikšic, Budva, Bar, Niš, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Tuzla, Mostar, Zenica. > The Training course is in principle conceived for youth from 14 to 28 years. This is just an average, everyone interested can join: older persons are welcome; younger persons should be accompanied by a person of 18 years or older. > Criteria for the eligibility is going to be MOTIVATION LETTER asked from each interested in a topic. > Besides taking lectures, the participants will be in position to take an active role in debates and discussions. During the debates and discussions informal debate techniques will be used. Therefore while selecting advantage will be given to the ones who are familiar with debate,though this is not a condition for the participation! > We ask you to consider, in which way you will be able to pass what you'll experience and learn, tothers back home. ===== Ivana Vukov Vice-President / PR Responsible of AEGEE-Europe rue Nestor de Tiere 15, B-1030 Bruxelles/Brussel tel: +32-2-245 23 00, fax: +32-2-245 62 60 E-mail:[log in to unmask] "In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing" T. Roosevelt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ============================================================================= RAINBOW-L is a regional discussion list of AEGEE. Check out http://www.aegee.uni-karlsruhe.de/archives for the archives of public lists. To unsubscribe send 'unsubscribe RAINBOW-L' to [log in to unmask]