As part of its academic activities the Programme tries to involve also international experts and academia representatives as guest lecturers.
On December 2 the GC Caucasus programme in cooperation with RWI Armenia within the frames of Human Rights in legal perspective course conduced by Prof. Anna Margaryan, organised a guest lecture on Principles and problems of evidencing torture in international human rights law.
The recognition of torture is primarily a question of evidence. Human rights activists and advocates have thus busied themselves with setting standards and developing documentation methodologies towards producing compelling evidence of torture for human rights decision-makers (judges and committee members), before whom torture cases are brought.
The lecture first identified the principles of evidence in international human rights law and explored the problems to have arisen in how evidence had been used in practice.
The lecture conducted by Mr Ergun Cakal, University of Copenhagen.