Session III: Cooperation between United Nations and Regional Human Rights Mechanisms (RHRMs), civil society organisations (CSOs) and human rights defenders (HRDs)

Time: 
08/29/2016 - 13:30-08/29/2016 - 15:30
Room: 
Cempaka Room at Puri Dalem Hotel
Session Track: 

Human Rights Workshop

This Workshop will be held over 1 day (29 August 2016) and is being co-organised by Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), Bridges Across Borders South East Asia Community Legal Education Initiative (BABSEACLE) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). These sessions will address current and pressing human rights issues and involve in depth discussions on steps to moving forward to improve the current human rights situation in the region. Each of the three areas to be covered in the workshop relates to one of AJAR’s core programs, focused on addressing mass human rights violations in contexts of transitions to democracy in the Asia Pacific region.

Speaker(s): 
Heisoo Shin
Leena Ghosh
Liza Sekaggya
Nahla Haidar
Tae-Ung Baik
Vicky Tauli–Corpuz

This session will provide an overview of the UN and RHRMs and how CSOs and HRDs can cooperate with them, a specific focus on how lawyers could assist victims accessing the human rights system in relation to prevailing human rights challenges in the region. Participants will share best practices, challenges, lessons learnt and identify new forms of cooperation.

 

Introductory statement OHCHR (5mins)

 

  • Ms. Heisoo Shin, Member, UN Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Overview of the UN  treaty body system , and how CSOs and HRDs could engage with it, specific focus on the CESCR committee, cooperation with UN treaty bodies and  Regional organisations in Asia(12mins)

 

  • Ms. Nahla Haidar, Member, UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 

How CSOs and HRDs could engage with CEDAW committee  and CEDAW cooperation with Asian regional organisations (10mins)

 

  • Mr. Tae-Ung Baik, Expert,UN Working Group on Enforced and involuntary Disappearances (WGED)

Overview of theUN Special Procedures Mechanisms functions,  and   how CSOs and HRDs could engage with them, with specific focus on the WGED , how the WGED can engage with regional organisations in Asia(12mins)

 

  • Ms. Vicky Tauli –Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous people

How CSOs and HRDs could engage with the Special Rapporteur (10 mins)

 

  • Ms. Liza Sekaggya,  OHCHR

The UN Human Rights Council and  UPR process and the Role of CSOs and HRDs (12mins)

 

  • Ms. Leena Ghosh, ASEAN secretariat

Overview of the ASEAN mechanisms, cooperation of CSO and HRDs with the ASEAN mechanisms, ASEAN cooperation with UN  mechanisms (12 mins) (TBC)

 

Discussion- Participants can ask questions, share experiences etc.