The information was provided this Monday by the centre's director, Wilson Adão, at the opening webinar of the second advanced course in Human Rights at the Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Angola, for 170 students from all over the country, to be taught by national and international experts, including Portuguese.
Wilson Adão said that every week the centre also provides legal support in jails, in markets and on public roads, also teaching citizens technical knowledge on human rights.
According to the centre's director, earlier this month the project to support victims of domestic violence during the covid-19 period began in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
"This project of great social impact aims, essentially, to respond to the need for a set of people to be supported in this period of confinement, where there is greater likelihood of conflict in the home," said Wilson Adão, emphasizing the involvement of students in this project.
The Center for Human Rights and Citizenship, created in January of this year, is part of the Human Rights Law Clinic, created in 2018 by a group of students from the Law School of the Catholic University of Angola, which in 2005 founded the simulated human rights court in the country.
According to the head of the centre, the main mission of the clinic was to provide free legal support to citizens without resources, but also to train the students, since the greatest teaching deficiency identified in the academy was the lack of practical experience.
"From this project we began to teach the legal world to our trainees, with regard to the preparation of procedural documents, contracts, norms", he declared.
Wilson Adão said that the centre is also dedicated to research and research, and said that three works on human rights and reports on domestic violence will be launched by September.
On this first day, the Portuguese Paulo Sérgio Pinto Albuquerque, a full professor at the Portuguese Catholic University Law School and a former judge at the European Court of Human Rights, was a speaker at the training session on "The international systems of human rights protection".
