Human rights monitoring activities should follow a structure, also known as human rights monitoring cycle, that allows you to make the most of your resources, keep you and your team focused, and allows you to stay safe and consider all the angles.
Human rights monitoring cycle constitutes a strategic tool to record and analyse information, present findings of monitoring activities, express concern about a human rights issue, engage in dialogue with duty bearers, advocate positive change and propose recommendations for corrective action.
Part 1. Monitoring cycle
Part 2. Integrating gender into human rights monitoring work
Exercise: Practice the monitoring cycle
- ● Examine OSCE Rapporteur’s Report under the Moscow Mechanism on Alleged Human Rights Violations related to the Presidential Elections of 9 August 2020 in Belarus.
- ● Identify a specific human right that is relevant for your monitoring or to the activities of your organization.
- ● Sketch out an initial assessment of the situation for your possible future monitoring.
- Analyse whether these alleged human rights violations are affecting all stakeholders in the same way or not.
- ● Describe the human rights problem you want to resolve, and applicable human rights standards.
Human Rights Monitoring Cycle
