HUMAN RIGHTS GUIDANCE AND TOOLS
HUMAN RIGHTS ENGAGEMENT WEBINARS
HNPW – GPC HRTT event – Engaging with regional HR mechanisms to strengthen protection in Africa context (May 2022) – See the mini Guidance which was also launched (English and French)
GPC HRTT Webinar – Climate change, displacement, and human rights (April 2022)
UNHCR Webinar – Launch of the Compilation of Good Practices on Engaging with Human Rights Systems (Apr 2022) – The Compilation includes Protection Cluster practices
GPC HRTT Webinar – Peer exchange on collaboration with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (Mar 2022) (Slides)
GPC HRTT Webinar – Advocacy in protracted crises for communities living under non-state armed groups control (Mar 2022) (Notes)
GPC HRTT Webinar – Arabic – Webinar on engaging with OHCHR (Jan 2022)
GPC HRTT Webinar – Planning and designing Human Rights Education interventions (Dec 2021)
GPC HRTT Webinar – How to tackle racism and related intolerance in the context of internal displacement (Oct 2021) (webinar summary)
GPC HRTT Webinar – PC engagement with NHRIs and launch of the Guidance for PCs (Aug 2021) (webinar summary) (link to the Guidance)
GPC HRTT Webinar – Human rights education in humanitarian settings (June 2021)
HNPW – GPC HRTT event – Implementing the SG’s Call to Action for Human Rights (May 2021)
UPR-Info webinar for the GPC “An Introduction to the UPR” (April 2021):
- English: (Webinar recording) / (PowerPoint)
- French: (Webinar recording) / (PowerPoint)
- Spanish: (Webinar recording) / (PowerPoint)
UPR-Info webinar for the GPC “Good Practices in UPR Mid-Term Reporting” (May 2021):
- English: (Webinar recording) / (PowerPoint)
- French: (Webinar recording) / (PowerPoint)
UPR-Info/HMRI webinar “How to Optimize Stakeholders’ Report for the UPR” (May 2021):
- English: (Webinar recording) / (PowerPoint 1) / (PowerPoint 2) / (Useful links)
GPC-HRTT Strategic Engagement with the Human Rights Council (English – March 2021)
GPC-HRTT Human Rights Engagement Webinar (English – March 2020) / (PowerPoint)
GPC-HRTT Human Rights Engagement Webinar (French – January 2021) / (PowerPoint)
Global Protection Forum – Human Rights Engagement and How We can Practically Use it (September 2020)
GPC-HRTT Individual Complaint Procedures of the Special Procedures Webinar (December 2020)
HUMAN RIGHTS TASK TEAM NEWSLETTERS
HUMAN RIGHTS AND COVID-19
> UNHCR, Quick guide – Human rights mechanisms in the context of COVID-19 (as of 1 May 2020)
> UNHCR, Human rights press statements in the context of COVID-19 (as of 1 May 2020)
> OHCHR, COVID-19 guidance documents (as of 6 June 2020)
Additional resources available on OHCHR’s page: COVID-19 and its human rights dimensions.
HUMAN RIGHTS IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION ESSENTIAL GUIDANCE AND TOOLS
Training series on human rights engagement
- Module 1: Basic Concepts and Human Rights Engagement as a Process (Facilitator’s Guide / Slides)
- Module 2: Human Rights Analysis (Facilitator’s Guide / Slides)
- Module 3: Mapping of Stakeholders (Facilitator’s Guide / Slides)
- Module 4: Engaging with Affected Populations (Facilitator’s Guide / Slides)
- Module 5: Integrating Engagement with Human Rights Mechanisms in Cluster Interventions (Facilitator’s Guide / Slides)
- Module 6: Make it happen: Implementing human rights engagement (Facilitator’s Guide / Slides)
- Module 7: Prevention and response to racism in the context of internal displacement (Facilitator’s Guide / Slides)
- Module 8: Human rights engagement strategies (Facilitator’s Guide)
- Mini Sessions (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8)
Human Rights Education Module
- Module: Human rights education in displacement contexts (Facilitator’s Guide / Slides)
Documents and tools
- Engagement with the African human rights mechanisms: An overview for protection actors (also available in French!)
- UNHCR Compilation of Good Practices on Engaging with Human Rights Systems (including Protection Cluster examples)
- NHRI Handbook on Internal Displacement (also available in French and Spanish)
- UN Human Rights Mechanisms – Summary Table (comparative tool)
- Call to Action for Human Rights and the Humanitarian Programme Cycle
- Infographic on protection analytical frameworks with a focus on human rights
- Factsheets on UN Human Rights Mechanisms for Protection Clusters:
- Stakeholder mapping tutorial video (download link)
- Guidance for Field Protections Clusters on Engagement with National Human Rights Institutions, August 2021
- GPC – Human rights engagement to strengthen protection through law and policy
- UN Secretary General – The Highest Aspiration: A Call to Action for Human Rights, 2020
- UN “Rights Up Front”: Summary UN General Assembly, 17 December 2013
- Protection of Human Rights in Humanitarian Crises: a Joint Background Paper by OHCHR and UNHCR, 8 May 2013
- OHCHR: International Legal Protection of Human Rights in Armed Conflict 2011
- Fieldview Solutions: Influence on the Ground (L. Mahony and R. Nash) 2012
Useful links
International human rights law continues to apply to all situations of humanitarian emergencies, whether conflict or natural disasters. International human rights instruments, notwithstanding strictly defined and time bound derogations, apply throughout the continuum of humanitarian emergency planning, preparedness, response and recovery. For the list of international human rights instruments applicable to humanitarian action please click here.
HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION GUIDANCE FROM INTER-AGENCY STANDING COMMITTEE