ICESCR Training Guide - Module 7: Final Discussion

Facilitator Overview

Introduction

This module provides participants with an opportunity to review what has been learned during the training.

Description

• Summarizing the activities of the last two days, ask participants to complete the questions below, and then discuss participant's answers with the group. You may also want to answer the questions yourself, sharing what you have learned with and from the group.
• Discuss any remaining questions, issues, concerns.

Time: 60 minutes

Participant Overview - Module 7: Final Discussion

Objectives

This module provides participants with an opportunity to review what has been learned during the training.

Description

In considering what has been learned during the training, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage in a final group discussion.

Time: 60 minutes

Activity: Summarizing What We Have Learned

Answer the following questions individually. Responses will be discussed in the larger group.

1. What have you heard here that you will remember as particularly important?
2. What have you learned here that you can take back to your community?
3. What have you learned that you think you will be able to use in your everyday life?
4. Is there something that you would still like to know or are confused about?

No one gives us rights. We win them in struggle. They exist in our hearts before they exist on paper. Yet intellectual struggle is one of the most important areas of the battle of rights. It is through concepts that we link our dreams to the acts of daily life.
(Albie Sachs, Protecting Human Rights in South Africa, p.vii, 1990)

Resources

A) Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Resources

• Amnesty International
• Centre for Economic and Social Rights
• International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• National Human Rights Institutions at Work: Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
• National Human Rights Commission (2005). Disability Manual, New Delhi, India
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
  • Committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) (monitor implementation of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • CESCR – General Comments
• Thesaurus of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

B) General human rights resources

• International Human Rights Instruments
  • Human Rights Treaty Ratifications List
• Human rights monitoring mechanisms
  • Treaty bodies (monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties)
    • Human Rights Committee (CCPR) (monitor implementation of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)
    • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
    • Committee Against Torture (CAT) (monitor implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment)
    • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment
    • Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) (monitor implementation of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families)
    • International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
    • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) (monitor implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination)
    • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
    • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (monitor implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women)
    • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
    • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD (monitor implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)
    • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
    • CRPD ratification list
    • Committee on the Rights on the Child (CRC) (monitor implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child)
    • Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Universal Periodic Review
  • Canadian Human Rights Bodies
    • Canadian Human Rights Commission
    • Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
    • Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission (process also involves: Chief Commissioner and Panel appointed by Chief Commissioner)
    • British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal
    • Manitoba Human Rights Commission
    • New Brunswick Human Rights Commission (process also involves: Board of Inquiry)
    • Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission (process also involves: Board of Inquiry)
    • Northwest Territories Human Rights Commission (process also involves: Director of Human Rights and NWT Human Rights Adjudication Panel)
    • Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
    • Nunavut Human Rights Tribunal (no website) Toll-free 1-866-413-6478
    • Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
    • Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission
    • Quebec Commission des droits de la personne et les droits de la jeunesse
    • Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission
    • Yukon Human Rights Commission
• Other human rights resources
  • Canadian Human Rights Foundation
  • Disability Rights Promotion International
  • Equitas International Centre for Human Rights Education
  • International Disability Rights Monitor
  • Mertus J. and Flowers N. Local Action/Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls, ISBN: 0-912917-01-6
  • University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

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