📋 Tender Overview
On November 16, the CCPR-Centre made a visit to Honduras to hold a workshop with Civil Society organizations with the aim of strengthening the technical capacities of human rights defenders.
There was the participation of 30 human rights defenders from different regions of the country, in which the next review of the Human Rights Committee of the State of Honduras was addressed. The list of issues published by the Committee includes priority topics such as the fight against impunity, access to justice and independence and impartiality of the Judiciary and the administration of justice. The Committee will review the State of Honduras in its 141st session in June 2024. During the workshop, opportunities for civil society participation and relevant deadlines were reviewed. The CCPR-Centre will continue to collaborate with the organizations in the preparation of a report for the Committee's review.
Participants work on strategies with practical cases.
During the workshop, conventional and extra-conventional United Nations protection mechanisms and the ways in which they can be used were also reviewed. A practical exercise on individual communications before special United Nations mechanisms was carried out where each group was assigned a fictitious case, based on a real-life case, in which they were asked to identify the relevant mechanisms that they considered most appropriate. , as well as the advocacy strategies that they would use to accompany the litigation. This exercise allowed participants to apply the knowledge acquired in the workshop and how to apply it to situations in their organizations. The Center will continue to follow up with the participants, to support them in the presentation of communications before special procedures.
