CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS Consultative meeting

On Nov 9, 2009, the Globe International NGO in cooperation with the Open Society Forum NGO, the Secretariat of the Committee of National Human Rights Program and the Access to Justice Project, UNDP has organized a consultative meeting on “Civil and Political Rights”.

Main purpose of this meeting was to define urgent problems related to the implementation of the civil and political rights through the discussion amongst the civil societies and to discuss some possibilities of certain state activities to be implemented by the NGOs. There was a broad range of topics have been discussed, hence, participants discussed them in the following groups. 
- Right to fair trial;
- Right to participate in conduct of public affairs;
- Right to freedom of expression; 
- Vulnerable groups: Children, women, elder people, poor people; 
- Vulnerable groups: National minorities, displaced people, people with disabilities, sexual minorities.

One of the significances of this consultative meeting was a discussion of the issues related to civil and political rights of vulnerable groups. In the result of the meeting, the participants agreed on the following speeches to be made on the Civil Society Forum in December, 2009. Which of: 
- Urgent problems of civil and political rights, solution methods, the possible actions of NGOs; 
- Some proposals on improving the implementation of civil and political rights of vulnerable groups;
- Issues of civil and political rights during a State of emergency;
- Strengthening of the human rights protection mechanisms.