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NHRI Academy
The NHRI Academy is a week-long training course held each year for national human rights institutions (NHRIs) across the OSCE region. It is organised by ODIHR together with the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI).
About
Since 2014, the Academy has brought together over 300 senior and mid-level NHRI staff to improve skills, share experiences, learn from one another and strengthen professional networks across the region.
Each year, the programme focuses on new and emerging challenges facing NHRIs and offers practical tools to help them address these issues in their work and carry out their role of promoting and protecting human rights more effectively.
Inside the NHRI Academy
This short video from the 2022 NHRI Academy in Tirana shows participants working together during the programme and exploring the human rights implications of artificial intelligence.
Past meetings
Training
2025 National Human Rights Institutions Academy: Protection of Human Rights Defenders
The National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) Academy is a flagship annual event organized by ODIHR and the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI). It brings together senior- and mid-level staff from 25 NHRIs across…
Training
2024 NHRI Academy: Securitization and Human Rights
The 2024 National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) Academy focuses on strengthening NHRIs’ capacity to address challenges related to securitization, enabling NHRIs, through their mandate, to address securitization issues that have a direct…
Training
2023 NHRI Academy: Rule of law
The programme of this year's 10th edition of the National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) Academy focuses on the NHRI mandate when addressing challenges to the rule of law (RoL). With backsliding on the rule of law across the OSCE region…
Training
2022 NHRI Academy: Artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights
2022 NHRI Academy: Artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights
Training
2021 NHRI Academy: Protecting human rights defenders and shaping inclusive civil society
The 2021 edition of the National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) Academy aims to train senior and mid-level staff from NHRIs across the OSCE region on: how to address the particular challenges they face in their work how to fulfill their…
Meeting
2020 NHRI Academy: The human rights perspective on migration
The 2020 edition of the National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) Academy aims to train senior and mid-level staff from NHRIs across the OSCE region on how to address the particular challenges they face in their work, and how to fulfill…
Training
2019 NHRI Academy
The NHRI Academy is a flagship annual event of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI). ODIHR and ENNHRI are organizing the 2019 NHRI…
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