Part of our Everyday Work NHRI Guidelines for Mainstreaming SOGISC Work
The CRC delivered strong recommendations that the NHRI, CSOs and health professionals are using as
the basis for their joint ongoing discussions with Government to address these human rights violations.
The Provedor for Human Rights and Justice Timor-Leste has created a Memorandum of
Understanding with National NGO (CODIVA) to implement Human Rights Training to Police and
community leaders, that includes a focus on SOGIE.
After a consultation workshop with over 80 LGBTI participants in 2010, the National Human Rights
Commission of Mongolia trained 71 police officers on SOGI issues, collected data on human
rights violations against LGBT people, created website resources, produced a brochure on making
complaints to the Commission, and used public service announcements on television to call for
implementation of UN recommendations concerning sexual minorities. Together with the LGBT Centre,
the Commission included LGBT people in a human rights survey and tabled a report in Parliament with
a chapter focused on SOGI human rights issues. The Parliament Standing Committee on Legal Affairs
passed a Resolution calling on the government to implement the UPR and Committee Against Torture
recommendations relating to LGBT people.
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has formed a LGBTIQ sub-committee where NGOs
and individuals can raise difficulties they face and potential solutions. These issues can then be raised
with the sectoral subcommittees (for example on health or education) that involve representatives from
relevant government ministries.
The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, as part of its Business and Human Rights
work, co organised private sector dialogues with UNDP’s Being LGBTI in Asia Program on promoting
and protecting diversity in the workplace.
POSSIBLE ACTIONS
38. Build and maintain collaborative relationships with diverse LGB, T and I organisations and
networks to inform the work of the NHRI and to ensure an effective communication outreach to
LGBTI people.48
39. Ensure joint strategising between the NHRI and LGB, T and I organisations in developing NHRI
strategic and activity plans on human rights issues relating LGBTI people.
40. Develop broader advocacy coalitions with diverse LGB, T and I organisations and generalist
human rights organisations to enable joint efforts on projects to promote and protect the human
rights of LGBTI people.
41. Arrange regular meetings for exchange of views, information and plans between the NHRI’s senior
leaders and LGB, T and I organisations.
42. Include information about the human rights situation of LGBTI people in parallel or shadow reports
to the Universal Periodic Review, special procedures and treaty monitoring bodies.
43. Make statements during debates before review bodies and the Human Rights Council on human
rights relating to SO, GI and SC.
44. Encourage country visits and reports by United Nations experts to examine human rights issues
in relation to SOGISC, including those by special procedure mandate holders, treaty monitoring
bodies, fact-finding missions and commissions of inquiry.
45. Promote and monitor the implementation of recommendations from the international human rights
system that deal with human rights in relation to SOGISC.
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