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Through training, study and protection, GHR aims to bridge the gap between international standards and realities and to empower all those involved in the promotion and protection of human rights.
Our Core Activities
Monitor meetings, analyze trends, informs trainers and partners & prepare GHR’s brainstorming sessions and Expert Seminars.
Geneva Courses during HRC sessions, In-Country Courses in-between the Council’s sessions, Courses & Briefings during the Universal Periodic Review.
‘Implementation Now’, develop national capacities, facilitate and enforce implementation, share and teach strategies at Regional and National level.
Our Main Projects
GHR has a specific ‘West Papua Human Rights Project’. This training project is part of GHR implementation programme and aims at supporting strategies for implementation.
‘ INPLEMENTATION NOW ! ‘
‘Implementation Now Plans, strengthening national empowerment to facilitate the implementation of human rights at national level‘ -‘assess progresses and set-backs to bridge the gaps’
‘ INDIGENOUS PEOPLES PROJECT ‘
The aim of this project is to foster true knowledge, spur reliable expertise and induce positive change on the issue of the survival, protection and promotion of Indigenous Peoples over the world.
‘ GHR Draft Outline Series ‘ – 2018
available upon request
‘ GHR Background Paper Series ‘ – 2017
available upon request
‘ GHR Outline Series ‘
– 2017
available upon request
Intern & Fellow
The Huan Rights Policies Studies (HPS) Department supports all GHR training activities.
It monitors international negotiations, covers all meetings of United Nations Human Rights bodies, analyzes the main trends, and informs our trainers and partners in the field.
Logically, HPS is entrusted with the preparation of GHR brainstorming sessions and Expert Seminars.
Courses & Trainings
GHR Global Training Department has set up training programmes.
The Geneva Courses and Seminars during the WG on UPR and the HRC are part of the Programme on the participation of Human Rights Defenders to the HR-Council.
The Specific Experts Seminars are prepared by our HPS Department, which is composed of fellows and students from several universities.
Seminars & Briefings
As a training centre, Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training has to promote monitoring, analysis and reflection.
Thus, it regularly convenes in Geneva lectures venues and brainstorming sessions on the main issues dealt with by the Human Rights Council and its satellite organs.
Groups of diplomats, scholars, civil servants and defenders are invited to attend GHR brainstorming sessions.
