The Geneva for Human Rights NGO often organizes a Global Training on Human Rights. The Human Rights were written and signed in the year 1948. Human rights must be implemented by the countries themselves.
Aware that massive human rights violations are ongoing, increasing the gap between the standards of the United Nations and the implementation of their decisions, Geneva for Human Rights-Global Training (GHR), bridges this gap. Through training, study and protection, GHR aims to strengthen the work of those in the field involved in the promotion and protection of human rights, in particular human rights organizations and defenders. Every year, its Global Training Department, conducts dozens of Courses and Seminars in Geneva and in the field.
Thanks to our Main Representative –Sr. Hedwig Joehl-, our NGO (Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd) who through the office in Geneva had the oppor-tunity to participate in a training organized by Geneva for Human Rights NGO-Global Training. This training was held from September 14th to the 25th. The sisters participating were: Claudia Palacio, from USA; Klara Karrer, from Austria (who will be a member of the team at the GSIJPO in Geneva) and Yolanda Sanchez, from Colombia (who will be next year the main GS NGO Representative in Geneva).
The participants share with you their experiences during the training on human rights:
Claudia Palacio: “Coming to Geneva for a Human Rights training has been an exceptional experience. The great desire to understand the functioning of the United Nations and its Human rights instruments at a global scale was satisfied when I witnessed how many people are involved in the Human Rights field as defenders. The Good Shepherd people who work for a world where dignity and reconciliation will be upheld as intrinsic values, bring awareness to violation of Human Rights, network with others and make a personal choice for justice and peace. The responsibility of unifying our efforts at the local and global levels represents a challenge that we must not ignore.”
Klara Karrer: This course is a very good opportunity to learn a lot about the United Nations and Human Rights Council: how it works, the structures and strategies, and to identify which structures we can use as members of the Congregation of our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd to be effective in helping women and girls in our countries to change their situation. We got to know links to the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council whose duty is to visit countries to get to know the real situation. They make reports to the Human Rights Council to call for change.
It is interesting to follow the debates, the recommendations of the ambassadors and the rapporteurs during the council.
Yolanda Sanchez: “Personally, this course on Human Rights has been a great learning experience and an opportunity to enhance my knowledge on this topic. Looking more closely at this wide world of Human Rights has raised a desire to work and to be more involved as a Good Shepherd sister in the promotion of human rights for all. I feel and I am aware that knowing more about human rights it is a call to change my life style, the way to live in community and with mission partners but also in the mission that has been entrusted to me. I see the field of the Human Rights at the United Nations as an opportunity to have a strong voice on behalf of most vulnerable people, especially women and girls around the world and more specifically in our different services where the Congregation is present.
As NGO we are blessed to have a voice at the United Nations through the different human rights mechanisms: ‘To know much better about Human Rights is to be a better advocate on these issues in the Congregation and in the world’.”
Hedwig, Claudia, Klara, Yolanda
Source: Embrace the world October 2015
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