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Type of Resource: ISHR Tips & Tricks
Publication Date: 2024
This checklist explains the steps you need to take to organise a side event at the UN Human Rights Council.
Type of Resource: ISHR Tips & Tricks
Publication Date: 2025
Guidance on how to prepare and communicate before, during and after an event held on the sidelines of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Type of Resource: ISHR Tips & Tricks
Publication Date: 2025
This short guidance provides insights on how to apply and get the observer status at the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Type of Resource: FactSheet / Checklist
Publication Date: 2025
List of NGOs and INGOs working on the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Type of Resource: ISHR Tips & Tricks
Publication Date: 2025
This 2 pagers provides information on Submitting an Amicus Curiae within the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Proceedings
Type of Resource: FactSheet / Checklist
Publication Date: March 2021
An short summary for civil society groups. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (or ‘CESCR’) is one of the ten Treaty Bodies, the UN committees tasked with monitoring the implementation of the nine core human rights treaties and their protocols by the State parties to them.
