ACTIVITIES
IN 2005 and 2006
1) Mainstreaming Human
Right
- Convening workshops and training sessions through
provincial human rights committees.
Assisting in the finalization of the national human
rights plan of action and supporting its implementation
- Lobbying for, helping to establish, assisting in
fundraising for and building the capacity of a national
human rights institution of the Provedor de Justica.
- Supporting the involvement of legislators in national
and international human rights activities.
- Training civil servants and NGOs in the drafting
of treaty body reports (Angola is a possible will
be a pilot country for an expanded core document,
a simplified reporting process to the human rights
Treaty Bodies), and supporting the Government in implementing
treaty body recommendations.
- Implementing Action 2 through the thematic group
on human rights, and by including other United Nations
agencies in rights based work.
- Coordinating regularly with the Government, donors
and NGO networks.
2)Promoting
the rule fo law, access to justice and reconcilation
- Supporting the introduction of a paralegal
system and a community mediation structure.
- Training and supporting NGOs in country
wide human rights monitoring and protection - -
Working with the police to establish preventive/community
strategies and implement a human rights training programme.
- Consolidating the information technology
and case tracking capacity of the prosecutor general
and the penitentiary administration.
- Promoting and providing technical and logistical support
to the missions of special rapporteurs on freedom of
expression and the right to adequate housing.
3)Promoting
civil and political rights
Financing radio programmes and disseminating public
information on human rights related electoral issues.
- Working with political parties to ensure that human
rights are promoted and respected during the upcoming
electoral campaign.
- Fostering an active role for civil society in the
electoral process by enhancing its capacity to monitor,
educate and inform, and lobby.
- Supporting the involvement of women in the electoral
campaign.
- Training and supporting provincial human rights committees
to promote the Southern African Development Community
(SADC) electoral principles and to monitor the election
campaign.
4) Promoting economic,
social and cultural rights
- Working with the Government and civil
society to prepare the first report under the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
- Training civil servants, NGOs and provincial human
rights committees in monitoring implementation of
the poverty reduction strategy paper.
- Working with international financial institutions
and donors on rights based implementation of the poverty
and reduction strategy paper.
Promoting corporate human rights responsibility among
oil companies, related to initiatives like the Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) which aims
to ensure that revenues from extractive industries
contribute to sustainable development and poverty
reduction, the Global Compact, a UN‑led initiative
that seeks to advance responsible corporate citizenship
enabling business to be part of the solution to the
challenges of globalization, and the proposed set
of norms on human rights responsibilities of transnational
corporations.
ANTICIPATED
RESULTS
- National
and provincial human rights plans of action are elaborated
and implemented during the year. A national human
rights institution is established and made operational
by the end of the year.
- An expanded core document is presented to the treaty
bodies, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights and the Human Rights Committee, to African
instruments, to the Global Compact and to the New
Partnership for Africa's Development peer review mechanism.
- Remaining core treaties
are ratified.
- Political accountability of the executive regarding
human rights issues is strengthened.
- Action 2 is implemented throughout
the United Nations system in Angola.
- Coordination of human rights
activities between donors and NGOs is improved.
- A multi year strategic plan
on access to justice is elaborated. Police and the
armed forces have greater awareness about human rights.
- The legal rights of detainees are respected.
- Conditions for pluralistic political debate and
freedom of expression and association are improved.
- The electoral campaign
is held in accordance with SADC principles.
- The poverty reduction strategy paper and Millennium
Development Goals are implemented and monitored according
to human rights principles.
- Protection and promotion of social and economic
rights are fully reflected in national and provincial
human rights strategies and institutions.
BENEFICIARIES
The direct beneficiaries of the
project will be the Government, he judicial system,
new human rights institutions and non governmental
stakeholders. The ultimate beneficiaries will be the
people of Angola
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