CNDH represents GANHRI on the 10th anniversary of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
The national Human Rights Council (CNDH) represented the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) in a high-level meeting on the 13th of June in Geneva, on the 10th anniversary of the UN Human Rights Council.
GANHRI stressed that NHRIs have an enormous potential in contributing to the work of the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms maximising its impact on human rights in-country:
- They provide the Council and its mechanisms with credible, independent and evidence-based information about the domestic application of international human rights norms, standards, and recommendations, with reliable analysis about areas where progress has been made and where implementation challenges remain.
- They increase awareness by national-level institutions and actors of the work of the Council and boost their involvement with it, thereby helping to make the Council more relevant and accessible to the national and grassroots level, including rights-holders themselves.
- They support the Council's work in developing international human rights treaties and other norms and standards, such as the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, by coordinating input through their global voice, the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI).
It is thus important to ensure NHRIs have sufficient resources and orientation to do so as effectively as possible.
GANHRI recommended in this regard strengthening NHRIS’s capacity to engage with and through the Council to strengthen human rights on the ground, providing an environment in which NHRIs and civil society have meaningful opportunities to engage with the Council and other UN mechanisms, and providing protection for NHRIs’ staff and members against acts of reprisals or acts of intimidation.
The CNDH also represented GANHRI, on the 14th of June, in a High-Level Panel discussion on the occasion of its tenth anniversary.