Furthermore, officers involved in trafficking cases received special training and, in that connection, the police school for continuing education had recently held courses on organized crime and human trafficking.

Continuing education is up.

In the period January December 2002, 3,503 people took Enseñansa pa Empleo (Adult education provided by the government) courses the 1,776 women participants mostly took computer courses, language courses and cookery and personal care courses.

There are four forms of non regular education for adults, including illiteracy elimination and post literacy education customized education periodic refresher courses, training courses to update and improve knowledge and skills programmes to obtain certificates of the national education system, such as in service training, distance learning and guided self learning.

Three NGOs are active in family life education', organising regular lectures, courses and workshops.

Adult and continuing education offer primary and secondary teacher training programmes.

The Adult and Continuing Education Unit of the Department of Education and the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre provide tertiary education in Anguilla.

There is a tendency to focus on continuing education as an alternative in the area of indigenous education.

WFP also implemented 59 non formal education and literacy training courses in 2005, reaching 18,199 trainees.

The courses are aimed at enhancing women's access to and participation in further education and employment.

In those centres, the LGW offers free of charge early education, elementary, junior high school education, occupational courses to thousands of children and youth.

The establishment of the Department for Continuing Education, Literacy and Diversity (SECAD), in 2004, within the Ministry of Education.

A series of training courses for teachers had been organized and alternative programmes on basic education developed.

Tabulated Department for Institutional Development and Articulation Department for Continuing Education, Literacy and Diversity Ministry of Education (DDAI SECAD MEC)

Secondary education is available to the General Certificate of Education A Level. Higher education is provided by the University of the West Indies. The H. Lavity Stoutt Community College offers associate degree courses and technical education.

One positive step had been the combating of gender stereotyping in the schools and in adult education courses.

(e) Citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan have the same access to continuing education programmes.

Women have the same opportunities for continuing education as men. However there are practical difficulties.

Within the Ministry of Education, the establishment of the Department for Continuing Education, Literacy and Diversity (SECAD) was a step forward in this process.

She would also appreciate information on non formal continuing education possibilities for women past school age.

SECAD Secretaria de Educação Continuada, Alfabetização e Diversidade the Department for Continuing Education, Literacy and Diversity

The School of Continuing Education for Police has recently carried out two programs with relevance to trafficking.

Given such shortcomings, courses on science and engineering and their social applications should become part of the core training and continuing education of those in law, public administration, and official policymaking positions. Legislators, prosecutors, and judges, in particular, need to understand what natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering can and cannot offer.

At the same time, they participate in Greek language courses, while, through contacts with local societies, their education and occupational rehabilitation is promoted.

Substantially increased emphasis will be placed on in situ continuing education and information exchange, using new communications technologies.

Noting that girls were mostly enrolled in humanities courses while boys were enrolled in technical courses, she wanted to know what measures the Government was taking to eliminate that stereotypical approach to education, which also adversely affected women's employment opportunities.

Ms. Atabay (Turkey) said that education was compulsory until the age of 15, with possible attendance until 17, and that persons beyond that age could attend general, primary and secondary education courses open to them.

On 10 December 2004, the General Assembly proclaimed the World Programme for Human Rights Education in recognition of the need for a continuing international framework for human rights education.

Continuing discrimination against women in access to education, health care, land, credits and productive means stifle reconstruction and development efforts.

In the academic year 2003 2004 there were 627 full time educational institutions providing general education, 38 educational institutions providing evening courses or distance learning, and 71 educational institutions providing vocational, higher vocational or specialised secondary education.

The Special Rapporteur recommends that, as part of the effort to consolidate the various kinds of indigenous education, emphasis be placed on strengthening physical education, special training in the criminal justice system for indigenous people, education in all areas for indigenous girls and women, distance learning, adult education and continuing education.

Turkey was also striving to improve the quality of informal education and broaden its content, and courses were offered with a view to improving women's literacy.

Women are in the majority at intermediate and higher general secondary education level evening classes, while men are in the majority on technical courses (Figure 56).

The Committee noted the actions taken by the Government to encourage girls to subscribe to more technical training courses and to address sex stereotypes in education.

Its focus is multiethnic and its goal is to promote and strengthen continuing education for the people of the Atlantic coast.

It is planned that the proposed university college will offer a five year programme of courses involving three years of general education and two years of specialized education in cartography, photogrammetry, geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing.

The Special Rapporteur also recommends that, as part of the effort to strengthen the various kinds of indigenous education, emphasis be placed on strengthening physical education, special training in the criminal justice system for indigenous people, education in all areas for indigenous girls and women, distance learning, adult education and continuing education.

Besides the policy of quotas for black students, guidelines are being considered for the areas of continuing education for education professionals, for the publishing of educational material, to implement of Law No.

Among these, the goals directed at guaranteeing the commitment by State Government police institutions to the systematic inclusion of human rights training in the education and continuing education activities for police stand out.

That, in turn, requires educating the public further about human rights and women s rights through school textbooks, continuing education courses, and a vigorous media campaign. It also requires persuading representatives and policymakers to develop policies and allocate budget revenues to combat violence against women, and training police and judges to handle cases of violence against women without deferring to claims of family honor.

Please indicate whether information on family planning and sex education is provided in schools to girls and boys as part of the training courses on health care (para.

Furthermore, in the 2003 2004 academic year, the Ministry of Education had provided some 2,105 adult literacy courses. Sixty one per cent of the participants had been women.

An example of good practice is the role played by the National Organisation of Women in Higher Technical Education (VHTO) in the structuring or revision of curricula of higher education training courses to remove gender bias, specifically in the sciences.

The courses last for six months and two courses are delivered every year.

(c) The organization of courses, conferences, workshops and public information campaigns and assistance in the implementation of internationally sponsored technical cooperation projects for human rights education and public information