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This Training Event - 6 CPD points

The full day of training will serve as an advanced course to follow-up on the previous introduction to the United Nations human rights machinery. Provide participants with an update on the recent developments and seek to examine a number of pertinent human rights issues in depth. Such as the Universal Periodic Review Procedure of the Human Rights Council, the code of conduct in the UN Special Procedures and consider what makes a good Shadow Report for a UN Treaty, and the opportunity to consider case studies in this area.

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.

The Advanced course on the UN Human Rights machinery will update you in the following areas:

1. The recent advances in UN charter-based and treaty-based norms and mechanisms;

2. The opportunity to examine a number of issues in greater depth, namely:

a. consider and assess the Universal Periodic Review procedure of the Human Rights Council;

b. consider and examine the code of conduct in the UN Special Procedures and the procedure on how to submit a complaint;

c. the opportunity to study some General Comments on UN treaty bodies; and

d. identify what makes a good Shadow Report for UN treaty bodies, including some domestic and international case studies.