After a brief overview of the UN Human Rights System, this workshop will ask students to work in teams and analyse specific human rights cases, taken from real examples, and then to consider how to best bring the issue to the UN system.

Each group will have some time to work on their case – considering which mechanism/s would be best to use for the case in question taking into account both procedural requirements and substantive issues. Time will be given for groups to develop a short outline of their proposal, and then each team will present their work to the group. Following the presentations there will be time for general discussion on the strengths and limits of the UN System more generally.

The aim of the workshop is for students will gain a practical understanding of the strengths and limits of different UN human rights mechanisms for individual and group complainants, and become familiar with a number of topical and current substantive human rights issues.

Please note: The number of participants is limited, so please register early. Mail to juana.remus@rewi.hu-berlin.de!

Jacqui Zalcberg is a Human Rights Officer at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), where she has worked in the Special Procedures Branch. In this role supported the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on migrants, where she worked on his year long study on the rights of migrants at the borders of the EU, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples . Prior to her work at the UN she has worked as a human rights lawyer on a range of human rights cases in a variety of international and domestic forum, including in the inter-american human rights system, and under the Alien Tort Statute in US Courts as a lawyer for the NGO EarthRightsInternational.