Effective Human Rights Engagement for Parliamentary Bodies: A Toolkit

This Toolkit, produced by the EU-funded INTER PARES project, looks at the mandates and competencies of parliamentary human rights bodies, the factors that contribute to their effective functioning and how they can operationalize their human rights work in practice. It promotes the concept of active, rather than reactive, parliamentary human rights engagement. The tools and options proposed aim to contribute to strengthening the capacity of Parliaments in partner countries, by enhancing their legislative, oversight, representative, budgetary and administrative functions, representative and approachable.