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Category Archives: National Human Rights Institutions
Concern grows over human rights policing vacuum as merger crawls to conclusion
Published in The Irish Times, Tom Pegram (view article here) 8 April 2013
Operation against the Chilean Institute for Human Rights
An interesting debate has been occurring in the virtual pages of the Chilean broadsheet El Mercurio in recent days. As I’ve discussed in this blog, the Chilean NHRI or Institute for Human Rights (INDH) since it was created in 2009 … Continue reading
Reflections on Amman
For the past four days I have been attending the 11th Annual Conference of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC) in Amman, Jordan. It has been an insightful few days spent in the company of National … Continue reading
Torture Prevention and the Costa Rican Defensoría de los Habitantes
Costa Rica ratified the CAT on 11 November 1993 and the OPCAT in November 2005. The Foreign Ministry proposed to the Defensoría that it become the NPM and in February 2007 the office was designated by executive decree. The Costa … Continue reading
Torture Prevention and the Chilean National Institute for Human Rights
Resistance from various quarters has repeatedly conspired to undermine legislative attempts to create a robust Chilean National Human Rights Institution (NHRI). After a protracted process dating back to the 1980s, at the close of 2009 the Chilean Senate approved the … Continue reading
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Contribution to UN knowledge network: HuriTALK
Given the expanded role of NHRIs in the second cycle of the UPR, what programming opportunities do you see for UN entities / UNCTs in supporting NHRIs to follow-up on the recommendations emanating from the UPR? How are NHRIs supporting … Continue reading
Launch of project website – NHRIs and the prevention of torture
Today I launched with my colleague, Dr. Par Engstrom at UCL, a new research project website ‘National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) and Implementation of UPR Recommendations Relating to Torture Prevention’ which can be accessed here: http://nhritortureprevention.org/ (English) http://es.nhritortureprevention.org/ (Spanish) The … Continue reading
A (brief) political synopsis of the Bolivian Human Rights Ombudsman
Rolando Villena, the current Bolivian Defensor del Pueblo Activated in 1998 under the leadership of the first Defensora, Ana María Romero Campero (1998-2003), the Defensoría quickly emerged as a powerful human rights voice from within the state. As with many … Continue reading
The travails of the Peruvian Human Rights Ombudsman
The casual observer of Peruvian politics might be hard pressed to keep up with its many twists and turns. To put it plainly, little in Peruvian politics remains constant. This is evidenced by a highly unstable institutional arena where the … Continue reading
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En Memoria: Professor Guillermo O’Donnell
It is with great sadness that I learnt of the death of Professor Guillermo O’Donnell in Buenos Aires on Tuesday 29, November 2011. O’Donnell was one of the most brilliant and influential political scholars of his generation, and an inspiration … Continue reading