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Project Title: |
For a better respect of juveniles and
women’s rights in penitentiary institutions
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The implementing organization: |
Albanian Helsinki Committee |
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Project duration |
12 months |
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Supported by: |
UNICEF, Albania and funded by CARDS 2004 and
SIDA |
Why there is a need for intervention in the area of
juveniles and women treatment in the penitentiary
institutions:
The Albanian Prison Administration is undergoing
changes. Based on its hands-on experience in
monitoring closed institutions all over Albania, AHC
revealed an appalling situation regarding the
observance of Human Rights standards during all
these years especially in pre-trial detention
centers at the police commissariats. The treatment
of juveniles and women especially in pre-detention
centers at the police commissariats does not meet
the international accepted standards. There is
little awareness and sensitivity from the staff
regarding these issues and little or no experience
in management of such treatment programs and lack of
managerial skills to handle such situations. There
is also lack of policies and strategies targeting
both juveniles and women in closed institutions as
well as lack of enforcement of the legal and sub
legal acts in their everyday work.
The overall goal of the project is to contribute to
the process set in motion by the Albanian
government, in particular the Albanian Prison
Administration, to establish accepted approaches to
the treatment of juveniles and women in penitentiary
institutions, to guarantee that human dignity and
personal safety of these categories of persons
deprived of their liberty are respected;
The objectives of the project:
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To facilitate and support the process of the
improvement of training curricula of the
Training Center of Prisons with particular focus
on two modules, one for juveniles and one for
women;
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To ensure that these curricula will be an
indispensable part of the prison officials basic
training at the TCP from the moment of
recruitment;
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To set up a core team of trainers coming from
different penitentiary institutions by means of
a better training curricula and providing them
with further training skills on juvenile and
women, drug addicts’ issues and treatment.
The main strategies for the project implementation
are the following:
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Training of penitentiary administration through
a train the trainers program on juveniles and
women related issues;
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Support to the process of transforming the
Training Center of Prisons into a contemporary
sustainable training center for prison officials
through curricula improvement;
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Monitoring the law enforcement from the part of
penitentiary administration in pre-trial
detention centers and prisons;
The expected results:
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23 professional train the trainers on issued of
juveniles and women in closed institutions;
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A training module for juvenile and women related
issues for the Albanian local trainers;
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Modules which will be part of the TCP training
curricula for the basic and middle management
training of prison officials;
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