Expert meeting on enhancing capacity-building for local governments to incorporate human rights into all their work
Date
28 August 2023
Time: 10:00-12:00 and 15:00-17:00
Location: Room XIX, Palais des Nations, Geneva and online platform (Zoom)
As called for by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 51/12, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will convene an expert meeting for States, local and regional governments and other key stakeholders to discuss enhancing capacity-building for local governments to incorporate human rights into all their work.
What’s new:
Background information:
Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on local government and human rights (A/HRC/42/22)
Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on local government and human rights (A/HRC/51/10)
Call for inputs: Human Rights Council resolution 51/12 on local government and human rights
Recordings:
Session 1
Session 2
Statements
Opening session
H.E. Mr. Václav Bálek, President of the Human Rights Council (video)
Ms. Nada Al-Nashif, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (video)
Session 1: Human rights cities – Enhancing capacity-building for local and regional governments
Mr. Etornam James Flolu, District Chief Executive (Mayor), Afadzato South District, Ghana
Mr. Carlos Garolla, Director, Human Rights Division of the Government of Canelones, Uruguay
Mr. Morten Kjaerum, Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Session 2: Strengthening the capacity of local and regional governments to engage with the United Nations human rights mechanisms
Mr. Miloon Kothari, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
Ms. Melissa Upreti, Member, UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
Closing session
Ms. Emilia Sáiz, Secretary-General, United Cities and Local Governments
Interventions
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Delegation of the Catalan Government to Switzerland
Human Rights Institute of Catalonia
International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights at the Local and Regional Levels
Mexico City Commission on Human Rights
Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission
Public Services International - 1 | 2
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Indonesia
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