Engagement by individual NHRIs with their state to influence its position in favour of supporting the effective integration of human rights in the Post-2015 Agenda, based on the ten points listed above relating to human rights realization. NHRIs should adopt a common position on the strengths and weaknesses of the current draft SDGs as set forth in the Outcome Document of the OWG (Annex 2). International level In furtherance of its Strategic objective to increase its presence and impact in New York, it is proposed that the ICC engage in the process of finalising the Post-2015 Development Agenda at the international level. This could be done through an initial letter to all Permanent Missions in New York and to the Assistant Secretary General with Responsibility for Post-2015 Development, followed by an ICC mission to New York, including representatives from all ICC regions. This commence in October 2014, immediately following the UN General Assembly 69, in order to influence the UN Secretary General’s synthesis report. An initial draft of a letter is attached, emphasising support for the integration of human rights in the Post-2015 Agenda, and the important roles which NHRIs can play in promoting, protecting and monitoring the realisation of human rights through Post-2015 Development processes. Further opportunities for engagement in international forums should also be identified by the ICC Task Force, as recommended below. Recommendation 2: Prepare for human rights centred implementation of the Post 2015 Development Agenda. It is increasingly recognised that NHRIs can play in important roles at both the national, regional and the international role in promoting, protecting and monitoring the realisation of human rights through Post-2015 Development processes. Indeed a number of NHRIs have experience of promoting and protecting human rights in the implementation of the MDGs which could be shared. OHCHR, for example cites NHRIs in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Nepal and the Philippines as examples of good practice. The South African Human Rights Commission is also a case in point. NHRIs could promote, protect and monitor the realisation of human rights in the Post-2015 Agenda by, for example: Promoting a human rights centred Post-2015 Agenda at the international level: NHRIs can seek to influence the positions of States at the national, regional and international level to support the effective integration of human rights in the Agenda, based on the points listed under Recommendation 1. They can also seek to influence global accountability mechanisms such as the High Level Political Forum and the proposed “peer review” process, to share experience based on engagement with UN human rights reviews including the Universal Periodic Review
Engagement by individual NHRIs with their state to influence its position in favour of supporting the effective integration of human rights in the Post-2015 Agenda, based on the ten points listed above relating to human rights realization. NHRIs should adopt a common position on the strengths and weaknesses of the current draft SDGs as set forth in the Outcome Document of the OWG (Annex 2). International level In furtherance of its Strategic objective to increase its presence and impact in New York, it is proposed that the ICC engage in the process of finalising the Post-2015 Development Agenda at the international level. This could be done through an initial letter to all Permanent Missions in New York and to the Assistant Secretary General with Responsibility for Post-2015 Development, followed by an ICC mission to New York, including representatives from all ICC regions. This commence in October 2014, immediately following the UN General Assembly 69, in order to influence the UN Secretary General’s synthesis report. An initial draft of a letter is attached, emphasising support for the integration of human rights in the Post-2015 Agenda, and the important roles which NHRIs can play in promoting, protecting and monitoring the realisation of human rights through Post-2015 Development processes. Further opportunities for engagement in international forums should also be identified by the ICC Task Force, as recommended below. Recommendation 2: Prepare for human rights centred implementation of the Post 2015 Development Agenda. It is increasingly recognised that NHRIs can play in important roles at both the national, regional and the international role in promoting, protecting and monitoring the realisation of human rights through Post-2015 Development processes. Indeed a number of NHRIs have experience of promoting and protecting human rights in the implementation of the MDGs which could be shared. OHCHR, for example cites NHRIs in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Nepal and the Philippines as examples of good practice. The South African Human Rights Commission is also a case in point. NHRIs could promote, protect and monitor the realisation of human rights in the Post-2015 Agenda by, for example: Promoting a human rights centred Post-2015 Agenda at the international level: NHRIs can seek to influence the positions of States at the national, regional and international level to support the effective integration of human rights in the Agenda, based on the points listed under Recommendation 1. They can also seek to influence global accountability mechanisms such as the High Level Political Forum and the proposed “peer review” process, to share experience based on engagement with UN human rights reviews including the Universal Periodic Review
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