Conduct a training on SOGIE and human rights for 60 people

On 27^th April 2021, Coalition for Equality and Gender Sierra Leone (with funds from SYNERGIA-Initiative for human rights) organized an all-day training workshop for fifteen [15] participants that are MSM/TRANSGENDER and GAY from various communities in Makeni city. The workshop took place at the Thinker Motel and restaurant Hall at 24 Loya Street Makeni town Northern Sierra Leone.

The workshop was organized to raise awareness and deepening the knowledge of MSM/TRANSGEWNDER and GAY on SOGIES human rights. 

The workshop was divided into two sessions: The morning session dealt with the African system on human and peoples’ rights. In this presentation, the national Programme coordinator informed participants that the African system is the strongest of the three judicial regional human rights systems and was created under the auspices of the Africa union.

He furthered his presentations by providing detailed information on the African human rights system, its components, complaints procedure and decisions.

 The following topics were covered during the training:

• Jurisdiction over individual complaints composition 
• The African court of justices and human rights
• Africa committee of expert on the right and welfare of the child
• Principal functions

 The afternoon session laid emphasis on human right presentation:

In this presentation participants were informed about the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations. Alfred Davies gave summary background of the universal declaration of human rights which came into effect in 1945 in other to further reduced global violence as two world wars had been fought, the holocaust and the first nuclear bombs in Horishima in Japan.

He emphasized on the thirty articles enshrined in the UDHR and a detailed explanation was made on the following rights:

• The right to social services
• The right to education
• The right to work
• The right to freedom of thought, religion. Opinion and expression
• The right to marry and have children 
• The right to asylum
• The right to life
• The right to freedom from torture and inhuman treatment
• The right to equal treatment before the law
• The right to privacy

Participants also gained knowledge on the following content:

• Why the UDHR
• The impact of the UDHR
• Why the UDHR still relevant