More than 50 participants from NHRIs and UNHCR staff around the globe met for the GANHRI-UNHCR Roundtable to explore the potential of increased cooperation between national human rights institutions and UNHCR in preventing and responding to statelessness.
The GANHRI 2023 Annual Meeting will be held on 14-15-16 March 2023 in UN Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
GANHRI Working Group on ageing and human rights of older persons met on 22 November in Seoul, Korea, during the 2022 International Human Rights Conference to discuss the Working group activities planned for the upcoming year 2023.
On the 3rd of November 2022, GANHRI and DCAF – The Geneva Centre for Security Sector and Governance, co-hosted a 2022 Geneva Peace Week (GPW) Virtual Workshop on National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Conflict-Affected and Fragile Settings: Examining their Contribution to SDG 16 and the Sustaining Peace Agenda.
The COP27 Symposium provided a platform to discuss the key role of NHRIs in protecting environmental human rights defenders. GANHRI also released an open letter to State Parties to the UNFCCC calling on them to strengthen climate action in line with their human rights obligations in and following the critical discussions during COP27 and CMA4.
The meeting was chaired by GANHRI Chairperson Maryam Al Attiyah and hosted by GANHRI Secretary Amina Bouayach and welcomed the participation of GANHRI Regional Chairpersons, GANHRI Bureau members from all regions, as well as representatives of the GANHRI Head Office, regional network secretariats – APF, ENNHRI, NANHRI and RINDHCA – and partners from the OHCHR and UNDP.
The Bureau of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), commenced today a two-day meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, to review progress in implementing its Strategic Plan and discuss future activities that will drive GANHRI’s work in support of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) in 2023 and beyond.
Today the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution recognising the critical contributions of national human rights institutions in monitoring, reporting and advising governments and other stakeholders on climate action that is based on human rights.
Today at the 51st session of the Human Rights Council we welcomed the Secretary General report on NHRIs and on our activities in accrediting NHRIs in compliance with the Paris Principles and we called on states to strengthen their support and provide a safe environment for the effectiveness of NHRIs work.
GANHRI in consultation with the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) members, SCA observers and OHCHR – as Secretariat of the SCA – will host a two-day retreat in Geneva on 1st and 2nd October 2022 as ongoing efforts in supporting the accreditation process.