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Workshops on the Improvement of the Regional Systems of Human Rights Protection
Project / Program Summary

I. Basic data

Sector(s): Good Governance - Human Rights Protection
Title: Workshops on the Improvement of the Regional Systems of Human Rights Protection
Donor country / organization: North South Centre's Core Funding & Norwegian government
Other donors / organizations involved: Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Centre for Justice and International Law, Human Rights Directorate of the Council of Europe, Forum Asia
Beneficiary countries / regions: Africa / Europe / America / Asia
Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries / regions: African Commission on Human and People's Rights, European Commission and Court of Human Rights, Interamerican Commission and Court and Human Rights, Asian NGOs
Duration: fiscal year 1999 - ongoing project
Starting Date: 1995
Project / Program budget (Direct Implementation): Total 221.740 FF
Finance / type of cooperation: Grant cooperation

II. Project / program description

  1. Objectives
    To examine the experiences and progress made within the three regional systems of human rights protection; to exchange information about the jurisprudence, doctrine and practice of human rights among experts from the regional systems; to establish direct working relations between the members of the three systems; and to analyse the setting up of mechanisms for the protection of human rights in Asia through examination of the three existing ones in Africa, America and Europe.
  2. Activities / contents
    Following participation in the session of the African Commission of Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) in 1994, the North South Centre, in collaboration with the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), decided to reflect on the improvement of the regional systems of human rights protection and oragnised in 1995, in Lisbon, the first workshop on this item.
    Members and experts from the European, African and American systems were invited. At the end of the workshop, the participants expressed the need to give a follow-up to this initiative: the Second on the improvement of the regional systems of human rights, was organised by the North-South Centre, CEJIL and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Lisbon, in November 1997, with the support of the Norwegian government. Members and experts from the European, African and American systems as well as Asian experts attended this meeting. Once again, the participants asked the North-South Centre to organise a follow-up for the third workshop to deepen the discussions and implement concrete activities aimed at improving the regional systems.
  3. Expected outcomes / impact
    To establish direct working relations between the members of the three systems;
    To improve the working methods of the different systems;
    To help define an Asian system of human rights protection.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action
    This project is in line with section 3 of the TICAD Agenda for Action in particular two specific points relating to "Good Governance" and "Conflict Prevention".

III. Contact point:

Eliane Carvalho, Co-Ordinator, Human Rights, Civil Society and Governance
Programme,
North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, Avenida da Liberdade, 229-4
1250 Lisbon PORTUGAL
Tel: 351 1 352 49 54
Fax: 351 1 353 13 29
E-mail: ecarvalho@nscentre.org

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