Deadline: January 10, 2025
Are you a human rights defender eager to make use of the UN to push for change at dwelling? If so, apply for the 2025 version of ISHR’s flagship coaching, the Human Rights Defender Advocacy Programme (HRDAP)! The course equips human rights defenders with the information and expertise to combine the UN human rights system into their current work on the nationwide stage in a strategic method and offers an OPPORTUNITY for members to arrange for and have interaction in advocacy actions on the UN with the purpose to impact change again dwelling.
Defenders will full a 10-week hybrid studying programme, on-line and offline, which can embody:
- Accessing the HRDAP Platform, the place they will full e-learning programs on every key UN human rights mechanism and on advocacy methods, and entry interactive studying supplies and case research on the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) Academy.
- Taking half in reside Q&A periods with human rights consultants.
- Receiving a steady personalised advocacy assist and training in an effort to develop concrete advocacy targets to make strategic use of the worldwide human rights system considering the native context.
- Building networks all over the world and studying from friends from a spread of areas engaged on a spread of human rights points.
- Applying their information to case-studies situations and enhancing their advocacy toolbox in keeping with their particular wants (elevator pitch, SMART suggestions…)
- Receiving assist and advocacy accompaniment to conduct actions in the course of the 59th and sixtieth Human Rights Council periods and different related alternatives.
- Participants could have the distinctive OPPORTUNITY to use their information and expertise whereas being in Geneva in addition to to satisfy and share with their friends and consultants (UN workers, diplomats, supporting NGOs…). The blended format of the course permits defenders to proceed their very important work on the bottom, whereas diving into the inside workings of every key UN human rights mechanism and gaining first-hand expertise from advocates and UN workers on how civil society can strategically have interaction within the worldwide human rights house. The methodology they use is interactive and learner-centred and encourage participation of everybody.
Benefits
- Gain information and instruments, which they will use to make sure their voice is central in worldwide human rights decision-making.
- Explore and evaluate the advantages of engagement with the Human Rights Council, the Special Procedures, the OHCHR, the Universal Periodic Review and the Treaty Bodies, and look at how they will use them to bolster their work on the nationwide stage.
- Develop methods and advocacy methods to extend the potential of their nationwide and regional advocacy work.
Eligibility
- Open to skilled human rights defenders working in non-governmental organisations, with current advocacy expertise on the nationwide stage and a few prior information of the worldwide human rights system.
- ISHR helps, and promotes solidarity with and between, defenders working within the following areas or contexts, which we recognise as intersectional and interdependent:
- Equality, dignity and non-discrimination
- Environmental justice and sustainability
- International accountability for the repression of human rights defenders
- Transparency and rule of regulation
Application
Download and browse fastidiously the HRDAP 2025 Programme Description to search out out extra about modalities, necessities and funding. If you meet the factors, take a while to use utilizing the web kind earlier than midnight Geneva time on Friday 10 January 2025!
For extra info, go to HRDAP.
