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Regional partnership for UPR - increased social accountability

Regional partnership for UPR - increased social accountability. Examples of specific support on UPR. support government in establishing a national action plan based on accepted UPR recommendations increase awareness and dialogue among stakeholders on international human rights machinery

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Regional partnership for UPR - increased social accountability

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  1. Regional partnership for UPR - increased social accountability

  2. Examples of specific support on UPR • support government in establishing a national action plan based on accepted UPR recommendations • increase awareness and dialogue among stakeholders on international human rights machinery • Support to NHRIs with OHCHR, ICC and APF • …

  3. Not a stand alone process! UPR recommendations as entry point for broader support on justice/Rule of Law, legal empowerment, human rights based approach etc.

  4. Legal Empowerment in the Arab States • Review of UPR/ESCR committee recommendations and courts cases in the region that refer to economic and social rights • draft manual on legal empowerment of the poor in Arabic • study on the situation of informality in Jordan (and Syria)

  5. UNDP/OHCHR Regional consultations on Transitional justice • 80 participants from Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Yemen, Algeria, Iraq • pillars of discussion: • 2011: Concept and modalities of transitional justice, Comparative experience in transitional justice, Judicial and non judicial mechanisms of transitional justice, Institutional reform for sustained justice • 2012: kinks between TJ and gender, national consultation, national justice processes, security sector refor

  6. Regional consultation constitutional dialogue • 75 participants from Egypt, Tunisia, Sudan, Libya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine and Somalia • international experiences on elements of constitutional dialogue as a process and on comparative constitutional outputs with respect to the following key questions: • How can diversity (linguistic, religious, ethnic etc.) be best enshrined and protected by the Constitution? • What role for the constitution in protecting social and economic inclusion and the justiciability of those rights? • How can the constitution help guide intra state and state-society relations in the context of local governance reform? • What is a gender sensitive constitution?

  7. Reflection at country levele.g. Rule of Law in Yemen • Comprehensive approach to RoL for the transition and beyond • support service delivery • improved professionalism • set the basis for longer term reform • specific look at A2J • Also work on HR and TJ – set up of NHRI • Link with National Dialogue

  8. Tunisia • initial assessment of the HR curriculum of the police • Support to national dialogue for constitutional reform • Implementation of transitional justice (OHCHR/UNDP) • first HRBA training to mixed audience (gvt, CSO and UN!)

  9. Thank you!

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