The Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR), has commenced a two-day intensive training workshop for Human Rights Monitors and key staff members of the institution.
The staffs are being trained on basic human rights monitoring, reporting and investigation.
The workshop which is will run from April 9-10 2025. It is being sponsored by the United Nations (UN) through the OCHR. It has brought together over 20 key staff members and monitors of the institution to acquired additional knowledge on human rights monitoring, reporting and investigation.
At the start of the training on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Monrovia, INCHR Chairperson, Cllr. Dempster Brown, described the refresher workshop as ‘very important,’ because according to him, it will enable their monitors to provide them with accurate and credible information about happening in the various counties relative to some of the mysterious deaths and they will in return advise the government on what step to take in curtailing said act.
Brown recalled how people are dying mysteriously in the counties and nobody knows who is doing the killing in those areas.
“This is the reason our monitors are currently being trained to conduct a comprehensive investigation into those deaths and provide them with findings from said investigations.”
“We are conducting two days training workshop for over 20 monitors from the 15 counties, because our report is based on what the monitors sent to us from the field. We are going to train them to know when and how to conduct themselves,” he said.
Brown said, as a Human Rights institution, their responsibility is to advise the government as it relates to human rights violation or situation in the country, that is why the monitoring, reporting and investigation training is very important for their staffs.
According to him, the training is intended to enable their monitors know what they are going to do in the field because it is from those report they are going to advise government on the violation taking place in the country, and that is why they are asking for more founding for the institution.
He then used the occasion to condemn the continuous human rights violation against peaceful citizens across the country by states security, most especially police officers, something he said is not good for a civilize society.
OHCHR Deputy Country Representative, Madam Pasipau Chirwa, who served as one of the facilitators, spoke on the topic induction to human rights monitoring, investigation and reporting, while Cllr. Pela Boker-Wilson, INCHR commissioner for Oversight-DCIM spoke on the theme human rights normative framework in the context of vulnerable/marginalized groups, and INCHR Chairperson Cllr. Brown also spoke on the topic human rights: condition in prison and prolonged pretrial detention.
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