NARRATIVE REPORT 2009 - The ICHRP

International Council on Human Rights Policy - Narrative Report 2009
Appendix I
THE
INTERNATIONAL
COUNCIL
OUNCIL'S S MISSION STATEMENT
The Council was created in 1998 to undertake practical (applied) research on dilemmas and problems
which face organisations working in the field of human rights. Its mission and objectives were set out by
the first Board in 1996:
MISSION STATEMENT
The International Council on Human Rights Policy will provide a forum for applied
research, reflection and forward thinking on matters of international human rights
policy. In a complex world in which interests and priorities compete across the globe,
the Council will identify issues that impede efforts to protect and promote human
rights and propose approaches and strategies that will advance that purpose.
The Council will stimulate co-operation and exchange across the non-governmental,
governmental and intergovernmental sectors, and strive to mediate between
competing perspectives. It will bring together human rights practitioners, scholars
and policy-makers, along with those from related disciplines and fields whose
knowledge and analysis can inform discussion of human rights policy.
It will produce research reports and briefing papers with policy recommendations.
These will be brought to the attention of policy-makers, within international and
regional organisations, in governments and intergovernmental agencies and in
voluntary organisations of all kinds.
In all its efforts, the Council will be global in perspective, inclusive and participatory in
agenda-setting and collaborative in method.
The Council is registered as a Foundation under Swiss law.
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