09:00-16:00 on 15 May (Friday) 2015
Gwangju, Republic of Korea
The
Workshop is the second international meeting of human rights experts to gather
main inputs and content for the final report of the United Nations Human Rights
Council Advisory Committee (UN HRCAC) on
the role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights, according
to the UN HRC resolution on local government and human rights (A/HRC/27/L.62).
The report is to be presented at the 30th session of the United Nations
Human Rights Council (UN HRC) to be held in Geneva in September 2015.
The
Workshop, as requested by the Resolution, aims to identify main challenges
faced by local governments in the promotion and protection of human rights.
Then, recommendations will be made to tackle those challenges based on best
practices in human rights mainstreaming in local administration and public
services. The first workshop was held in
Gwangju on 15 May 2014 to prepare key inputs for the first progress report of
the UN HRCAC which is attached in the annex.
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To download the concept note and tentative programme, click here.
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To download the UN HRC
Progress report of the UN HRC Advisory Committee on the role of local
government in the promotion and protection of human rights, including human
rights mainstreaming in local administration and public services (A/HRC/27/59),
click here.