DUSHANBE , June 14, Asia-Plus - Tajik journalists have taken training course on aspects of coverage of human rights issues and how to behave in trials.

A five-day workshop on this subject ended in Dushanbe on June 13.  This seminar for media was staged with assistance of the Tajik NGO Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law and under support of the European Commission Delegation in Tajikistan .  

According to information from the National Association of the Independent Media o Tajikistan (Nansmit), the seminar participants also familiarized themselves with the “Journalistic Human Rights Network” project being implemented by the Tajik NGO Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law.  

Representatives from the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation ( Warsaw ) trainer Lukac Boyarsky telling the seminar noted that Tajikistan ’s national legislation and international mechanisms for protection of human rights were quite favorably promoting objective coverage of human rights issues in media.  “Journalists just have to be little more courageous and legally aware,” Mr. Boyarsky stressed.