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Human Rights Lawyer training cancelled, twice.

13:45 Feb 20 2013 Olympic Complex, Quba, Azerbaijan

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Regional Human Rights Training—Constitutional Court practice and procedure.This Guba training of 25 local lawyer training participants plus trainers, had initially been scheduled for November, but authorities didn't "approve" the activity was a 2-Day training for lawyers and advocates to learn about how to practice before the Constitutional Court to protect the Local lawyers and advocates in the region.human rights of people in Azerbaijan.

After a pre-arranged November 16 training had to be cancelled because Olympic Complex could not get permission from the exec authority to host the event; a second scheduling for Dec 1-2 was ultimately cancelled when the presidential administration chose to simply not respond to the organizers notice, even after repeated follow-up. The organizers gave up on Guba and held a similar training in Baku, where no similar problems were experienced.
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