The United Nations Human Rights

Enforcement Machinery

Dr Nazila Ghanea and Smita Shah

 

  

 

Qualified Lawyers £75 (£50 to SIHRG members)

Trainees and Students £40 (£25 to SIHRG members)

 

The lecture will serve as an introduction to the United Nations human rights machinery.   The main mechanisms of the UN human rights system, how they advance international standards and promote and protect human rights.  Operation of key UN human rights bodies.   The lecture will be given by Dr Nazila Ghanea, Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford.  Editor of Religion and Human Rights Journal.  She has acted as Consultant, delegation member and expert at many UN fora.  Smita Shah is a Barrister at Garden Court Chambers, London, and will assist Dr Nazila Ghanea.  To reserve a place on this course please complete the attached booking form and return it with a cheque made payable to Solicitors International Human Rights Group to SIHRG, 7 Waterloo Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8AY.  If you have any queries concerning this event please email admin@sihrg.org  Materials will be provided to participants to cover the following aspects of the UN Human Rights machinery:

 

                History and Development of the UN                                               

                Treaties of The UN Human Rights Machinery

-          ICCPR

-          ICESCR

-          CAT

-          CERD

-          CEDAW; Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women; and Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict

-          CRC; Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict; and Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

                Organs of the UN Human Rights Machinery and Charter based bodies

-          Human Rights Council

            Assessment of effectiveness/proposals for reform