Deadline: January 10, 2024
Are you a human rights defender keen to use the UN to push for change at home? If so, apply for the 2024 edition of ISHR’s flagship training, the Human Rights Defender Advocacy Programme (HRDAP)!
The course equips human rights defenders with the knowledge and skills to integrate the UN human rights system into their existing work at the national level in a strategic manner and provides an opportunity for participants to prepare for and engage in advocacy activities at the UN with the aim to effect change back home.
Defenders will complete a 10-week hybrid learning programme, online and offline, which will include:
- Access to the HRDAP Platform, where they can complete e-learning courses on each key UN human rights mechanism and on advocacy strategies, access interactive learning materials and case studies on the ISHR Academy.
- Take part in live Q&A sessions with human rights experts.
- Receive a continuous advocacy support and coaching in order to develop concrete advocacy objectives to make strategic use of the international human rights system.
- Build networks around the world, and learn from peers from a range of regions working on a range of human rights issues.
- Apply their knowledge to case-studies scenarios and enhance their advocacy toolbox according to their specific needs.
- Receive support and advocacy accompaniment to conduct activities during the 56th and 57th Human Rights Council sessions and other relevant opportunities.
Cost & Scholarship
- The tuition fee is 2,000 Swiss Francs (CHF), and the average cost of travel, accommodation, meals, per diem and programme logistics administration is approximately 3,000 CHF for the 10 days period.
- Full scholarships cover the whole cost of 5,000 CHF, whilst partial scholarships may cover the 2,000 CHF tuition fee. Scholarships will be attributed at ISHR’s discretion.
Eligibility
- Open to experienced human rights defenders in non-governmental organisations, who have existing advocacy experience at the national level and some prior knowledge of the international human rights system.
- ISHR supports, and promotes solidarity with and between, defenders working in the following areas or contexts, which they recognise as intersectional and interdependent:
- Equality, dignity and non-discrimination: Such defenders may include migrant rights defenders, minority rights defenders, and anti-racism, Black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) defenders, and also defenders working on sexual orientation, gender identities and sex characteristics.
- Environmental justice and sustainability: Such defenders may include environmental HRDs (EHRDs), climate activists, corporate accountability activists.
- International accountability for repression of human rights defenders: Such defenders may include those working in highly restrictive or repressive environments.
- Transparency and rule of law: Such defenders may include those working in deteriorating environments where there is a need to safeguard, or an opportunity to strengthen, democratic institutions and accountability mechanisms.
Application
Apply before midnight Geneva time on Wednesday, 10 January 2024!
- Submit a completed application form (take some time to read carefully the requirements and collect information you need);
- Attach 2 letters of recommendation to your application form: those letters shall be signed and submitted in PDF format. The recommendations shall come from 2 different organisations.
For more information, visit ISHR HRDAP.
