The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs

Bertrand Ramcharan, formerly Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists, has performed the functions of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Rachel Brett, has been Quaker Human Rights Representative to the UN in Geneva for several decades. A leading human rights practitioner, she is presently President of Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE). Ann Marie Clark, Professor at Purdue University, Indiana, is the author of books on Amnesty International and on Demands for Justice: The Creation of a Global Human Rights Practice. Penny Parker, a Board member of Geneva for Human Rights, has practised international human rights law for several decades.

Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgements


List Figures and Tables


Contributors


Introduction

  Bertrand Ramcharan



1 Adrien-Claude Zoller A Tribute

  Alain Dick, Penny Parker, and Bertrand Ramcharan



2 The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Developing and Protecting Human Rights

  Ann Marie Clark and Paul Janssen Danyi



3 Protection ngo s in the Age of Neurotechnology

  Jared Genser and Stephanie Herrmann



4 ngo s and the Responsibility to Protect

  Kurt Mills



5 ngo s Powerful Agents of Change

  Fay Y. Parris, Esq. and Simisola M. Adeosun



6 Human Rights Protection in Emergency Situations The Need for Synergy between the Human Rights and Humanitarian Communities

  Laurie S. Wiseberg



7 Civil Society and the UN Human Rights System

  Rosa Freedman and Samuel Gordon



8 Statement By Forty-Six ngo s on Problems Experienced in the UN Human Rights Council


9 Joint Declaration on Protecting and Supporting Civil Society at Risk


10 The International Commission of Jurists and the UN Human Rights System Advocating for the Progressive Development of International Human Rights Law, Standards and Mechanisms

  Ian Seiderman and Massimo Frigo



11 The Role of Human Rights ngo s in Strengthening the Protection Mandates of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies

  Anna-Karin Holmlund



12 The Role of an ngo Representative in Advocating for the Responsibility to Protect at the UN

  Christine Caldera, and Elisabeth Pramendorfer



13 The Roles of ngo s in the UN Human Rights System The Case of South Asian ngo s

  Samuel Jayakumar



14 African Civil Society and the Struggle for Human Rights

  Bertrand Ramcharan



15 ngo s in the African Commission The Role of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

  Marshall Conley and Hannah Forster



16 ngo Strategy for Oversight of Human Rights in a Constitutional Regime The Colombian Case before the Commission on Human Rights

  Gustavo Gallon



17 The Guyana Human Rights Association and the Struggle for Justice in Guyana

  Bertrand Ramcharan



18 Reflections of an ngo Advocate on Justice Deficit Systemic Disorder (jdsd) as a Threat to the Global Human Rights Project

  Basil Fernando



19 Tibet at the United Nations Perspective of an Eye-Witness

  Christa Meindersma



20 Non-Governmental Organization’s Efforts at the United Nationsto Promote Human Rights in North Korea

  David Hawk



21 Securing the Rights of 65,000 Chakmas and Hajongs in India a Country of 1.4 Billion People

  Suhas Chakma



22 Developing Strategies to Protect ngo Human Rights Defenders

  Roberta Cohen



23 ‘International Memorial’ Human Rights Protection, Public Education, and Historical Truth in Russia

  Tanya Smith



24 Developing an International System for Internally Displaced Persons

  Roberta Cohen



25 The Role of Non-governmental Organisations in Dealing with Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in Argentina and Chile

  Thomas E. McCarthy



26 Amnesty International’s Policy Submissions to the UN Secretary-General From the Archives


27 Human Rights Watch on Accountability for Past Human Rights Abuses From the Archives


28 ngo s in Action for Protection Jacob Blaustein Institute Urgent Appeal for a More Robust International Response to Russia’s Invasion of and Human Rights Violations in Ukraine


29 Getting Human Rights into the United Nations Charter Successful ngo Advocacy at the San Francisco Conference

  Felice Gaer



30 ngo s and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Recalling William Korey’s Study

  Inès French



31 ngo s and the Commission on Human Rights The Roots of an Essential Partnership

  John P. Pace



32 At the Service of Human Rights ngo s and Defenders in the United Nations

  Adrien-Claude Zoller



33 The International Service for Human Rights and the Recognition, Participation and Protection of Human Rights Defenders

  Phil Lynch and Madeleine Sinclair



34 ngo Written Submissions to the UN Commission on Human Rights From the Archives

  Maryna Yazianok



35 “ngo Involvement Crucial in Promoting Human Rights, UN Official Says” From the Archives


36 Human Rights ngo s and the U.N. The Canadian Experience

  Daniel Livermore



37 ngo s’ Contribution to the Work of the Independent Experts

  Emmanuel Decaux



38 Courageous Leaders and ngo Initiatives

  Hans Thoolen



39 ngo s, the 1993 Vienna World Conference, and the Consolidation of a Global Human Rights Movement Some Personal Recollections

  Christian Strohal



40 The Struggle to Establish Women’s Rights as International Human Rights The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Vienna and Beijing

  Felice Gaer



41 ngo s and the Fight against Discrimination

  Bertrand Ramcharan



42 Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Challenges and Opportunities

  Claire Moretto and Nicolas Zoller



43 Quaker Human Rights Work at the United Nations Conscientious Objection to Military Service

  Rachel Brett



44 A Campaign for Freedom of Religion or Belief in the United Nations The Experience of the Bahá’í International Community

  Diane Ala’i



45 From the Grassroots to the UN Franciscans Building Bridges

  Cedric Chatenalat



46 The Preventive Role of Human Rights ngo s

  Bertrand Ramcharan



47 Universal Rights Group’s Advocacy of UN Prevention Strategies

  Marc Limon and Mariana Montoya



48 Prevention of Torture The Role of the Association for the Prevention of Torture in the Adoption and Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture

  Barbara Bernath



49 Civil Society Dialogues to Prevent Conflicts and Protect Human Rights in Asia

  Robin Ramcharan



50 Civil Society A Partner to Promote Human Rights in the Universal Periodic Review Process

  Mona M’Bikay



51 Coming Full Circle in the upr Cycle? Civil Society Stakeholders and Their Role in the upr

  Gianni Magazzeni and Eliska Rybar



52 The Challenge of a New Issue for the Human Right’s System

  Edward J. Flynn



53 ngo s and Human Rights Challenges of the Future


54 The United Nations and Human Rights

  Adrien-Claude Zoller



55 UN Human Rights Day Statements, 10 December, 2021


56 Human Rights Watch and 59 ngo s on the Credibility of High Commissioner’s Visit to China


57 ngo, China and the UN Treaty Bodies

  Vincent Ploton



58 The Geneva Climate Change Consultation Group


59 Civil Society and Remedies under Human Rights Treaties cedaw

  Orest Nowosad



60 The Human Right to Adequate Housing and Its Development at the United Nations A ngo Protection Role Success Story

  Miloon Kothari



61 The Quest for Justice Could a Permanent “Peoples’ Court” Reinforce the Role of Civil Society in International Law?

  Ekkehard Strauss



62 Recapitulation and Reflections


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