Different strategies for implementing human rights
This afternoon four parallel workshops explored different sub-themes on how to implement human rights in a systematic way.
- National human rights action plans and baseline studies
- Methods for mainstreaming and following up systematic work for human rights implementation
- Systematic work for human rights implementation at the regional and local level
- The role of civil society and national human rights institutions in systematic work for human rights implementation
The purpose of the workshops was to discuss, exchange ideas and best practices, and to outline strategies and methods for how best to continue implementation work at the national level. The work of the sub-theme groups will be summarised and concluded by Thomas Hammarberg in a plenary session tomorrow (7 November). The concluding strategies and recommendations from the Rights Work! conference will be published and disseminated through the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights.
Sub-theme One: National human rights action plans and baseline studies
Moderator: Mr Bill Barker, Director, Human Rights International, Australia
Rapporteur: Mr Gauthier de Beco, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Sub-theme Two: Methods for mainstreaming and following up systematic work for human rights implementation
Methods for mainstreaming and following up systematic work for human rights implementation
Moderator: Mr John Kellock, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Rapporteur: Dr Clarence Dias, President, International Center for Law in Development
Sub-theme Three:Systematic work for human rights implementation at the regional and local level
Moderator: Mrs Susan Bolam, Representative of the Chamber of Regions, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, UK
Rapporteur: Mr Livingstone Sewnyana, Director Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda
Sub-theme Four:The role of civil society and national human rights institutions in systematic work for human rights implementation
Moderator: Prof. Brian Burdekin AO, Visiting Professor, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden
Rapporteur: Ms Silvia Escobar, Ambassador for Human Rights, Spain
