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E] Other Visits, Seminars and Workshops abroad
14.11 Justice Smt. Sujata V. Manohar, Member visited Nassau, Bahamas and New York, USA
during 17-21 May, 2004 to attend the Judicial Colloquium on the application of International
Human Rights Law and the review meeting of the World Survey on the Role of Women in
Development-2004 respectively organized by the United Nations (Division for the Advancement
of Women).
14.12 Dr. Savita Bhakhry, Senior Research Officer of the Commission visited Sri Lanka
to participate in the “Regional Workshop on National Laws to Combat Trafficking in South
Asia: Sharing of Research Studies”, held in Colombo, from 25 to 26 May 2004. The main
objective of the Regional Workshop was to share the findings of the legal research studies
conducted by the UNIFEM in collaboration with research partners/organisations in
Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka on the issue of trafficking so as to facilitate
the work of Governments, NGOs and civil society in combating trafficking.
Its other broad objective was to identify strategies in order to take forward the
recommendations and suggestions made in the studies conducted in the aforementioned
four countries.
14.13 Shri Santosh Kumar, Director General Investigation and Shri Ajit Bharihoke, Registrar
(Law) visited Dhaka, Bangladesh during 19-21 September, 2004 to attend an International
Conference on “Institutional Protection of Human Rights: Role of National Human Rights
Institutions”.
14.14 Ms. Sudha Shrotria, Director, Shri Y.S.R. Murthy, Deputy Secretary (Research) and
Shri Sunil Arora, Assistant Registrar (Law) visited Ottawa, Canada from 1-14 August, 2004 to
attend Internship Programme organized by the Canadian Human Rights Commission, under the
CHRC-NHRC-IGNOU Linkage Project on Disability.
14.15 Ms. Natasha D’Souza, Information Officer visited Accra, Ghana from 22-24 June, 2004
to participate in the workshop on “Building an Effective Media Communications
Programme” organized by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice
(CHRAJ), Ghana.
F] Exchanges and other Interactions
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A fifteen member group of students from the Asia Pacific Human Rights Information
Center, Osaka, Japan visited the Commission on 26-07-2004.
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A delegation of senior officials from the United Kingdom visited the Commission on
13-07-2004.
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