Twenty-Eight Authorities delegates from 13 Caribbean nations attended a three-day regional workshop aimed toward enhancing human rights treaty reporting capacities, strengthening nationwide mechanisms for implementation reporting and follow-up, and boosting synergies with the 2030 Agenda.
The workshop was organized by the UN Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights) and the Commonwealth Secretariat, beneath the auspices of the Ministry of International Affairs and International Commerce of Barbados.
The workshop, as a part of world occasions commemorating the seventy fifth anniversary of the Common Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), aimed toward constructing the capability of Caribbean nations on treaty physique reporting with a deal with the synergies between the Worldwide Covenant on Financial, Social and Cultural Rights and the 2030 Agenda.
Mahamame Cisse-Gouro, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms of UN Human Rights, known as on the Caribbean nations to ratify excellent human rights treaties and make pledges, particular person or collective, to their efficient implementation. He famous that “the safety of human rights is prime in our quest to construct a extra equal, simply, and affluent world for all.”
In her opening remarks, Sandra Husbands, Minister within the Ministry of International Affairs and International Commerce of Barbados, welcomed the workshop, highlighting the significance of technical help for Small Island Creating States in addressing reporting gaps. She expressed confidence that the mechanisms mentioned through the workshop would strengthen efforts to uphold human rights rules and fulfil reporting obligations of collaborating nations.
In addressing the discussion board, Didier Trebucq, UN Resident Coordinator for Barbados and Jap Caribbean, emphasised that “the SDGs are a right-based agenda. Acceleration of the SDGs is intertwined with progress within the implementation of human rights requirements. This can be in relation to water and sanitation, training, gender equality or stronger establishments for peace and safety and is at all times linked with leaving nobody behind.”
Dr. Shavana Haythornthwaite, Head of the Human Rights Unit of the Commonwealth Secretariat, highlighted that the workshop “represents a singular alternative to convey collectively English-speaking Caribbean nations for knowledge-sharing and mutual studying, strengthening their dedication to human rights and engagement with UN processes, as they have fun the seventy fifth yr of UDHR.”
The regional workshop supplied a hands-on alternative for contributors to share experiences and focus on challenges in addressing treaty physique reporting obligations and created the area for Caribbean nations to foster higher cooperation.
In line with Rovin Fevrier, a participant from Saint Lucia, “the workshop was very useful to deal with human rights mechanisms and on the preparation of studies”.
On the worldwide degree, this workshop allowed contributors to be taught in regards to the Human Rights 75 Initiative, together with the opportunity of making pledges forward of the Excessive-Degree occasion deliberate for 11-12 December 2023 in Geneva.
Delegates from Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago took half within the workshop.
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