Transcript Putting the Convention into practice - ICC - NHRI

NHRIs and the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities: Recent
developments and way forward
Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Legal
Officer, Equality and Human Rights
Commission (Great Britain)
EHRC - Britain’s independent
national monitoring mechanism
• Designated as the article 33.2 Independent
Mechanism to ‘promote, protect and monitor’
implementation of the UNCRPD in Great Britain
• Works separately and together with UK
Independent Mechanism (UKIM) partners
• Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, Northern
Ireland Human Rights Commission and Scottish
Human Rights Commission
EHRC – Our Work on UNCRPD
Promotion - ‘UNCRPD - What does it mean for you? A
guide for disabled people and disabled people’s
organisations’
Protection - Using regulatory powers: legal cases and
interventions; formal inquiries into deaths in custody
of adults with mental health conditions, disabilityrelated harassment, home care of older people
Monitoring - List of Issues report: Interim assessment
published December 14
Involvement of Disabled People and
their Organisations
• Awareness raising and capacity building
• Events across GB and on-line seminars
• Call for evidence - involving disabled people
and disabled people’s organisations in List of
Issues report
• ‘Harder to reach’ groups
ENNHRI’s CRPD Working Group
• European Network of NHRIs set up CRPD
Working Group in 2010 - chaired by the EHRC
• Members: NHRIs appointed, or expected to be
appointed, as article 33.2 Independent
Mechanisms
• Observers: Equinet-National Equality Bodies, EU
Agency for Fundamental Rights, European
Disability Forum, European Ombudsman,
OHCHR-Europe
ENNHRI CRPD Working Group - Aims
• Point of contact on disability rights among NHRIs in
Europe
• Develop and promote good practice guidance on the
role and actions of NHRIs in promoting, protecting and
monitoring implementation of the UNCRPD within
Europe and internationally
• Promote ratification and implementation of the UNCRPD
throughout Europe and by the European Union
• Influence the interpretation of the Convention by the
CRPD Committee and by the European Court of Human
Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union
• Promote and support the use of the Optional Protocol
Inaugural meeting between NHRIs and
the CRPD Committee – Way forward (1)
• CRPD WG proposals for guidelines on NHRI
participation in the work of the Committee:
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Participation at all stages of the Committee’s work
Independent speaking rights
Greater use of remote participation
Clarify NHRIs’ role under the simplified reporting
procedure
• Endorse A status NHRIs as ‘best practice’ model IM
Inaugural meeting between NHRIs and
the CRPD Committee – Way forward (2)
• Priorities for future cooperation and dialogue
with the CRPD Committee
• Role of States Parties to resource NHRIs appointed as
IM
• Developing core indicators; data and statistics
• Capacity building role of the CRPD Committee
• Involvement of Disabled People’s Organisations
• General comment on article 33
• Collective action incl. via proposed ICC working
group on disability
Thank you for your attention.
Contacts:
Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Legal Officer,
[email protected]
For more information about the ENNHRI CRPD
Working Group, please contact the chair of the
Group:
[email protected]
Selected Resources
EHRC website resources on UNCRPD
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/about-us/our-work/human-rights/international-framework/un-convention-rights-personsdisabilities
Monitoring implementation of the UNCRPD: The UK Independent Mechanism list of issues interim report
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/about-us/our-work/human-rights/international-framework/un-convention-rights-personsdisabilities/monitoring-implementation-uncrpd
Webpages of the ENNHRI CRPD WG (see also ENNHRI website)
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/about-us/our-work/human-rights/international-framework/un-convention-rights-personsdisabilities/european-network-national-human-rights-institutions
Preventing Deaths in Detention of Adults with Mental Heath Conditions – an EHRC Inquiry
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/legal-and-policy/our-legal-work/inquiries-and-assessments/preventing-deaths-detentionadults-mental-health-conditions
Inquiry into Disability-related Harassment
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/legal-and-policy/our-legal-work/inquiries-and-assessments/inquiry-disability-relatedharassment
Inquiry into Home Care of Older People
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/legal-and-policy/our-legal-work/inquiries-and-assessments/inquiry-home-care-older-people