Webinar Date TBA: How can the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights be used in advocacy? | LRWC event

23/01/2021

Postponed from 25 February. Date to TBA.

Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada’s webinar series on UN and Regional Human Rights Systems: Treaties and Mechanisms

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR): What is the ICCPR? How can it be used for human rights advocacy?

Date TBA

Organized and hosted by
Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC)
12:30-2:00 pm Pacific | 3:30-5:00 pm Eastern

Free of charge (donations welcomed to cover costs)
1.5 hours substantive CPD for lawyers in BC and Ontario
Registration: Watch this space

Speakers

  • Catherine Morris, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Executive Director
  • Other speakers to be announced

Outline of the webinar

  1. Introduction 
  2. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 
    • What is the ICCPR? What are the Optional Protocols (OPs)?
    • Who are the parties to the treaty and its OPs?
    • What are the duties of the States Parties to the treaty and OPs?
    • Who can complain and how?
    • Q/A
  3. Other instruments that draw on the ICCPR
    • The UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
    • The UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers
  4. Case study: How are these instruments used in advocacy? 
    1. Letters and statements: Joint action
    2. Written and oral statements to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC sessions, UPR)
    3. Treaty Bodies
  5. Discussion, Q/A, closing