Apply to the Human Rights Defender Advocacy Programme– the extensive training that will take place in Geneva on 8-19 June 2020 and will provide defenders with opportunities to put their advocacy skills directly into action at the 44th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The deadline is on 1 December 2019.
Apply for the Human Rights Defender Advocacy Programme 2020
The Human Rights Defender Advocacy Program equips defenders with the knowledge and skills to make strategic use of the international human rights system.
It also provides an opportunity for participants to directly engage in lobbying and advocacy activities at the UN level to effect change on the ground back home.
As well as receiving training modules on all the UN human rights mechanisms from a range of experts, participants will also have the opportunity to build networks in Geneva and around the world, carry out lobbying of UN member States and UN staff, and learn from peers from a range of regions working on a range of human rights issues.
Participants are invited to request a full or partial scholarship. Full scholarships cover the whole cost of 7000 CHF, whilst partial scholarships may cover either the 3000 CHF tuition fee or part of the participants’ accommodation, meals and per diem, or travel costs, or programme logistics and administration.
Main criteria
- In 2020, the program is particularly seeking applications from women human rights defenders working in conflict, post conflict and occupation settings. In addition, work with migrant rights defenders aims to support coalitions and strategies to push back on the criminalisation of solidarity, as well as to ensure that the UN human rights mechanisms do their part to meaningfully raise the issue of migrants’ rights violations.
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