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CONSULTANCY WORK FOR THE OFICINA DE PROMOCIÓ DE PAU I DRETS HUMANS DE LA GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA
As part of the ongoing consultancy carried out by the IHRC for the Oficina de Promoció de Pau i Drets Humans de la Generalitat de Catalunya, the following work was carried out in 2007:
- Preparation of the plan of action for legislature in the field of human rights: coordination of the conclusions of four experts; study and analysis of the different versions of the plan;
- Advice on the future design of the Catalan mechanism for the prevention of torture;
- Advice on the preparation of a collaborative project between the Oficina and the UN Staff College in Turín;
- Advice on the preparation of the announcement of subsidies for human rights.
- Design for the Prize for Investigation in Human Rights
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ACCOMPANIMENT AND LEGAL ADVICE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR YOUNG LATINOS
The IHRC, by request of the Ajuntament de Barcelona, actively participated in the process of the establishment of cultural associations for the Latin Kings and Ñeta groups in the city of Barcelona in 2006 and 2007.
The IHRC worked with young people from the latino groups advising them on the inscription process for being registered as associations by the Generalitat de Catalunya, especially on the legal aspects of the process, and supporting them in this initiative.
After six months of work developing a joint methodology and more than 10 meetings with members of the organisation, the Statutes of the Cultural Organisation of Latin Kings and Queens of Catalonia were presented to the Department of Justice in May 2006 and were approved in August of the same year.
With respect to the Cultural Association of Ñetas of Catalonia, the process was a little longer. The Statutes of the Association of Ñetas in Catalunya were presented to the Department of Justice in February 2007 and were approved in March of the same year.
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE CREATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF DONOSTI-SAN SEBASTIÁN
In 2005, the City Council of San Sebastián asked the IHRC to form part of the advisory committee for the creation of the Institute of Human Rights of Donosti.
As advisors to the creation of the Institute, the IHRC, represented by its Director, David Bondia, had various meetings in San Sebastián to discuss the structure of the institution and its functions as well as the links it will have with the local administration.
The meetings took place during 2005 and 2006. The project is currently awaiting approval.
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REPORT ON THE INTERRELATION BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS
As part of the preparation for the second Plan Director de la Cooperación Catalana, for the period 2007-2010, the Agència Catalana de Cooperació al Desenvolupament (ACCD) requested that the President of the IHRC, Jaume Saura, write a report on the interrelation between development and human rights, and the most important actions the Generalitat should carry out in the next few years in this sector.
The report was delivered to the ACCD on the 31st of May 2006.
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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Beginning in 2005, the IHRC formed part of the Scientific Committee of the International Congress of Human Rights , which took place in Valladolid from the 18th to the 20th of October 2006.
Throughout 2006, the President and Director of the IHRC, Jaume Saura and David Bondia, attended meetings with the organisers in order to draw up the Congress programme.
The Congress, with the backing of the regional government of Castilla y León, took place as part of the commemoration of the five-hundredth anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus. The aim of the Congress was the rigorous and in-depth analysis of the current themes in the human rights arena.
The Congress was divided into six sessions, in which the subjects under discussion were “Human Rights in history and their updating”, “The foundation and the concept of Rights”, “The protection of vulnerable groups”, “Poverty and Human Rights”, “The international guarantee of Human Rights” and “New technologies and Human Rights” The last two sessions were moderated by David Bondia y Jaume Saura, respectively.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF THE 2ND WORLD FORUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS
As members of the scientific committee, the IHRC has, since 2005, taken part in the preparatory work for the 2nd World Forum on Human Rights, sponsored by UNESCO and organised by the Nantes City Council in July 2006.
Around a thousand people participated in the Forum including politicians, human rights activists and human rights institutions and experts. They worked on the theme of international solidarity and responsibility from the perspective of a different type of globalisation; one based on the values of human rights.
The aim of the Forum was the creation of a network that allows for the advancement of the debate about the new challenges for human rights, as is the case with Human Rights in the City, one of the central themes of the Emerging Human Rights.
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LEGAL REPORT ON THE PROJECT OF REGULATION OF MEASURES TO ENCOURAGE AND GUARANTEE CIVIC COEXISTENCE IN THE CITY OF BARCELONA
In November 2005, the Federation of Associations of Neighbours of Barcelona requested that various human rights institutions create a legal report on the “Project of regulation of measures to encourage and guarantee civic coexistence in the city of Barcelona”, approved by the City Council on the 9th of November 2005.
The work group was made up of the IHRC, the Comisión de Defensa de los Derechos de la Persona del Colegio de Abogados de Barcelona, the Observatorio DESC and the Asociación Catalana por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos.
The report includes an analysis of rules laid out in the project of regulation from a triple perspective: the democratic state, the legal state and the social state. In conclusion, the withdrawal of the regulation was recommended.
The document was delivered to the Federation in order that it could present its opposition to the regulation at the public hearing that took place in the Ajuntament de Barcelona on the 12th of December 2005.
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REPORT ON THE STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CAN BRIANS AND TRINITAT PRISONS
In 2003, the IHRC was asked by the Secretaría General de Serveis Penitenciaris i Rehabilitació de la Conselleria de Justicia de la Generalidad de Catalunya, to write a report on the state of human rights in two of the prisons for which it is responsible: Can Brians y Trinitat.
These reports were written with the collaboration of independent experts and the Fundació Ferran Angulo, which carried out the research.
The reports were delivered to the Generalitat de Catalunya in June 2004, which decided not to make them public.
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