The GANHRI Annual Meeting, held on 14-16 March 2023, provided a platform for NHRI members to exchange and learn from each other, reviewing our work and deciding collectively on next steps moving forward.
Raquel Caballero de Guevara, Procuradora of NHRI El Salvador and Chairperson of RINDCHA, intervened on behalf of GANHRI during the interactive dialogue with SR on Human Rights Defenders called on all States to support the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur.
Louise Holck, Executive Director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, intervened on behalf of GANHRI during the interactive dialogue with SR on torture and other ill-treatment encouraging member states that have not yet done so to increase protection against torture of their national population through the establishment of independent and well-resourced NHRIs.
GANHRI delivered a statement at the 52nd Human Rights Council during the General Segment focusing on the 30th anniversary of Paris Principles and 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights recalling the centrality of human rights in our everyday lives and re-committing to their full realization for all individuals.
The 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council is taking place in person, from 27 February – 4 April 2023 at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva. More than 30 resolutions and other texts on both thematic and country specific topics are expected to be adopted by the Council at the end of its session.
The GANHRI Annual Meeting, to be held on 14-16 March 2023, will provide a platform for NHRI members to exchange and learn from each other, reviewing our work and deciding collectively on next steps moving forward.
GANHRI and its regional networks value the constructive relationship we have built with civil society organisations and coalitions in all parts of the world. We regularly engage in dialogue with civil society partners to listen to the issues they raise and this, in turn, informs and strengthens our work with member national human rights institutions (NHRIs) and regional NHRI networks.
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.