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Friday, November 29, 2013
OHCHR launched today a new guide for civil society on how to follow up HR recommendations
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights launched a new guide for civil society on how to follow up HR
recommendations. It may offer good examples on how to increase the
efficiency and visibility of international procedures and standarts at
the national level.
Monday, 18 November 2013, by Belarusian HRH
This Guide,
issued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),
focuses on how civil society can follow up on recommendations of United
Nations (UN) human rights mechanisms and mandates or bodies.
The Guide also refers to tools to facilitate civil society follow-up
activities. It is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
The new the Practical Guide for civil society on how to follow up on
United Nations human rights recommendations describes methods and
activities that civil society actors can use to promote the
implementation of human rights recommendations as well as existing
follow-up procedures and practices of UN human rights mechanisms and how
civil society can participate.
Complemented by real experiences contributed by civil society actors and
OHCHR field presences, the Guide offers a menu of options from which
civil society actors can select on the basis of their own priorities and
capacity.
The Guide is being translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and
Spanish. The High Commissioner for Human Rights will launch the Guide in
an event in Geneva to which you are invited. The launch will take place
on Friday 29 November from 16.00 to 17.30 in Palais des Nations, room
XXIII, Geneva.
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. The office was established by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 1993 in the wake of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. The office was established by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 1993 in the wake of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.
