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Advocacy kit on the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders
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This advocacy kit focuses on the important role of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders (the Special Representative) in protecting human rights defenders and promoting their rights.
We have worked closely with the mandate since its establishment and this advocacy kit is based on our experiences with the mandate and our concerns in relation to the review of all the special procedures and its impact on the effectiveness and independence of the system of special procedures in general and on this mandate in particular. All of the special procedures are currently being reviewed by a working group of the Human Rights Council. A number of proposals have been put forward during the discussions in the working group that would seriously undermine the independence and effectiveness of the special procedures. Please refer to our reports on the working groups for a detailed overview of the discussions.
We have also put together an advocacy kit on the review of special procedures that covers many of these proposals and what NGOs can do to counter them. We encourage you to consult it in relation to some of the proposals that are not discussed in this kit, in particular on election of mandate holders and individual review of mandates. These proposals would seriously undermine the independence and effectiveness of the special procedures.
This advocacy kit gives particular focus to the possible impact of some of the proposals that would restrict the working methods of the special procedures on the work of the Special Representative. The current Special Representative, Ms. Hina Jilani, has underlined that the effectiveness of the mandate relies on its parameters not being reduced during the review process and on restrictive methodology not being imposed on the Special Representative.
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