SELECTION CRITERIA

For health professionals:

The main target group for the course is health professionals. There is no minimum requirement of human rights law, humanitarian law or public international law. It is essential though to be able to show an interest in human rights and especially in the right to health and:

• The numbers of year of field experience with an affinity to the right to health.
• The involvement in civil society in general, and monitoring the monitoring the right to health in particular.
• It will be sought to ensure the greatest variation possible of health professionals, including general practitioners, forensic doctors, psychiatrist, psychologists, midwifes, nurses, public health experts etc. Preference will be given to health professionals dealing in rural zones or working with refugees, displaced persons, interns and other vulnerable groups.

NGO members/Lawyers:

There ought to be a minimum knowledge of international human rights law and/or at least the experience of identifying human rights violations; an affinity to the health sector and/or experience in monitoring the Right to Health. Criteria:

• The number of years of field experience in human rights and monitoring the Right to Health.
• To have the greater number of NGO members and/or lawyers who deal with:
  • Indigenous people
  • Mental Health
  • Reproductive rights
  • Children
  • Fight against Poverty
  • HIV/AIDS tuberculosis

Officials:

Their daily work should be related to the design and/or implementation of health policies.