MANAGEMENT
Partnerships
UN Human Rights has broadened and
diversified its institutional partners and
maximized the mutually reinforcing
human rights benefits of exchange of
expertise, reach and resources.
• OHCHR launched an internal taskforce
to develop a road map for partnerships,
which will include the identification of
key partners and enablers, as well as a
vision and toolkit for the establishment
of partnerships in the future.
• OHCHR established a new partnership with HURIDOCS to automatize the
Universal Human Rights Index (UHRI),
which will include tagging the recommendations issued by the international
human rights mechanisms against
SDGs and targets through a pioneering
use of artificial intelligence. UN Human
Rights also supported the European
Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
in developing the European Union
Fundamental Rights Information
System by drawing on data from the
treaty body jurisprudence database.
• The collaboration with the World
Bank progressed well in 2019.
Building on the success of the High
Commissioner’s engagement at the
2018 World Bank Spring Meetings, the
High Commissioner participated in a
prominent event on fragility, conflict
and violence (FCV) at the 2019 Spring
Meetings that were held in April, in
Washington D.C., with CEO Kristalina
Georgieva. UN Human Rights supported the High Commissioner’s
participation in the FCV event and
engaged with the World Bank’s consultation process as it develops its first
draft Strategy for FCV. As of the end
of the year, this process was ongoing.
• In 2019, the Special Rapporteur in
the field of cultural rights initiated a
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multi-year cooperation with UNESCO
to develop a manual and toolkit that
promotes a human rights-based
approach to cultural diversity and the
importance of safeguarding cultural
heritage in humanitarian action and
during security, peacebuilding and
peacekeeping operations.
• The Human Rights Monitoring Mission
in Ukraine (HRMMU) engaged for the
first time in a partnership with a local
NGO to prepare video lectures on
international standards for protecting HRDs. As part of a broader online
course for HRDs, the lectures aimed to
deliver information to HRDs about their
protection according to international
law, including who can be considered
an HRD, how the HRMMU operates in
Ukraine, key challenges to civic space
in Ukraine and what international mechanisms are available for the protection
of HRDs. The lectures were posted
online and widely shared by local civil
society activists.
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