Staff Exchange Programme reports

			Report by Ms Judith Cohen, Deputy Director, Parliamentary Liaison and Legislation Monitoring, South African Human Rights Commission
			Report by Ms Alice W. Nderitu, Senior Human Rights Officer (Human Rights Education & Capacity Building) from Kenya National Human Rights Commission of her work attachment with South African Human Rights Commission
			Report by Mr Qaiser Munir, Senior Research Officer from  Parliamentarians Commission for Human Rights of his work attachment with Kenya National Human Rights Commission
			Report by Ms Linda Ochiel, Senior Human Rights Officer Media and Communications from Kenya National Commission on Human Rights of her work attachment with South African Human Rights Commission
			Report by Ms Margaret Donaldson, Director, Race Discrimination Unit from Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of her work attachment with Commission for Racial Equality, London, UK
			Report by Ms. Sophia Dhatemwa, Human Rights Officer from Uganda Human Rights Commission of her work attachment with Kenya National Human Rights Commission

Workshop Reports

			Report of the workshop on "Using the United Nations’ Mechanisms for Protecting Human Rights" held from 8-12 October 2002 in Belfast, Northern Ireland [pdf file]
			Report of the workshop on "Human Rights Commissions: Using Public Enquiries and Formal Hearings" held from 25 to 27 February 2003 in Kampala, Uganda [pdf file]
			Report of the workshop on "Human Rights Commissions and Disabilities: Promoting the Rights of People with Disabilities: Towards a New UN Convention" held from 26 - 29 May 2003 in New Delhi, India [pdf file]
			Report of the workshop on "National Human Rights Institutions and Legislatures: Building an Effective Relationship" held from 23 to 25 March 2004 in Abuja, Nigeria [pdf file]
			Report of the workshop on "Building an Effective Media and Communication Programme for National Human Rights Institutions" held from 22 to 24 June 2004 in Accra, Ghana [pdf file]
			Report of the workshop on “National Institutions and Non-Governmental Organisations: An Agenda for Cooperation” held from 22 November to 25 November 2004 in Colombo, Sri Lanka [pdf file]
			Report of the workshop on "Managing National Human Rights Institutions held from 30 January to 3 February 2005 in Belfast, Northern Ireland [word file]

Guidelines

			Model Guidelines on planning Public Inquiries
			Model Guidelines on holding Formal Hearings
			The Abuja Guidelines on the relationship between Parliaments, Parliamentarians and Commonwealth National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs)
			A media handbook  for building an Effective Media and Communication Programme

Recommendations

			Recommendations for Promoting the Rights of People with Disabilities: Towards a new UN Convention
			Recommendations for Commonwealth Human Rights Institutions and Non-Governmental Organisations: An Agenda for Co-opetration

Research

We have commissioned research on the range and scope of National Human Rights Commissions across the Commonwealth. This includes:

			Bibliography on Human Rights Commissions through the mapping of existing literature on and by Commissions, including reports, UN documents, academic texts, NGO reports, journalistic articles, websites and other sources of information. [pdf file]
			Directory of National Human Rights Commissions in the Commonwealth, which are formed under the guidelines of "The Paris Principles".
			Survey of the Use of Public Inquiries and Formal Hearings by Commonwealth Human Rights Commissions. [pdf file]
			Research on the relationship between National Human Rights Commissions and other national equality and human rights related institutions, in Commonwealth countries. [pdf file]