Applications for ISHR training now closed

8 - 21 June 2014
Geneva

Please note that the application process is currently suspended as a large number of highly qualified candidates have applied to the course.

ISHR's Human Rights Defenders Advocacy Programme 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.

Participants will take part in:

1) A short online learning component, prior to face-to-face training, to enable you to consolidate your existing knowledge and develop your advocacy objectives

2) Intensive training in Geneva during June, to coincide with the 26th session of the Human Rights Council. The training will focus on ways to effectively use international human rights mechanisms and to influence outcomes

3) Specific advocacy at Human Rights Council sessions and other relevant meetings, with regular feedback and peer education to learn from the experiences, including expert input from leading human rights advocates.

This programme is directed at experienced human rights defenders in non governmental organisations and national human rights institutions, with existing advocacy experience at the national level and some prior knowledge of the international human rights system.

View a full programme description. Please note that the application process is currently suspended.