The Inter-American Fee on Human Rights (IACHR) broadcasts a technical cooperation and promotional go to to Barbados. The go to will happen from October eighth to eleventh, 2024, to advertise the Inter-American System of Human Rights, to the Fee’s relations with the nation with the target of accelerating collaboration in human rights and to advertise technical cooperation mechanisms and capability constructing.
That is the Fee’s first technical cooperation go to to Barbados. The go to is in step with the priorities established in IACHR’s Strategic 5-year Plan for the Caribbean (2023-2027) that locations emphasis on the area. The precise goal of the go to is for the IACHR to be taught of finest practices, the wants and challenges confronted by the State, civil society and different non-state actors with selling and defending human rights, and the way finest to reply.
The delegation can be led by Commissioner Gloria Monique De Mees, Nation Rapporteur for Barbados. She can also be the Rapporteur for Older Individuals and for Individuals of African Descent and in opposition to Racial Discrimination. She can be accompanied by specialists from the Govt Secretariat who symbolize numerous technical areas. The IACHR will maintain conferences with authorities and representatives of the State, in addition to with non-state actors, and can promote technical cooperation on prioritized human rights points. Additionally, the agenda contains conferences with the United Nations, and different worldwide organizations.
The go to can be performed inside the framework of actions that the IACHR highlighted as priorities when approving its Strategic Plan 2023-2027, notably with respect to Program 17 on Prioritized Consideration to the Caribbean. As such, the technique is directed at offering technical cooperation on institutional issues and public insurance policies with a concentrate on human rights; deepening consciousness of state brokers relating to structural issues that give rise to violations; growing the capability of State and non-state actors to advertise and respect human rights; and strengthening its monitoring and observe up mechanisms to make sure compliance.
The IACHR acknowledges the collaboration and willingness of the State of Barbados to host this go to.
A principal, autonomous physique of the Group of American States (OAS), the IACHR derives its mandate from the OAS Constitution and the American Conference on Human Rights. The Inter-American Fee has a mandate to advertise respect for and to defend human rights within the area and acts as a consultative physique to the OAS on this space. The Fee consists of seven impartial members who’re elected in a person capability by the OAS Common Meeting and who don’t symbolize their respective nations of origin or residence.
