Regional Representative for Asia-Pacific
United Nations
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Human Rights Training Materials

These materials are used by the Regional Representative for Asia Pacific for the OHCHR for human rights training. Please feel free to draw on these materials for your training needs.

What are Human Rights?

• Powerpoint presentation on 'what are human rights?'
• What rights are in the the Bill of Rights?
• The normative content of rights (extract from UNDP Philippines Training Manual)

Human Rights: an Asian perspective

• Powerpoint presentation on Human Rights: as Asian perspective

The UN Human Rights System

• Powerpoint presentation on the UN human rights system (generic version) (country specific example - Thailand)
• Powerpoint presentation on the UN human rights system
• Powerpoint presentation on submitting information to experts
• Fact sheet on treaty bodies
• Fact sheet on the Commission on Human Rights
• Fact sheet on the experts of the Commission on Human Rights

A Human Rights Approach to Development

• Powerpoint presentation on the human rights approach to development
• Powerpoint presentation on the human rights approach to development, prepared by Amparo Tomas, UNDP SURF
• Primer on a human rights approach to development by Amparo Tomas, UNDP SURF

Other useful training materials from OHCHR Bangkok

• Asia-Pacific Treaty Bodies Table
• Asia-Pacific Experts Table
• Asia-Pacific Ratifications Table
• Asia-Pacific Reservations Table
• Bangkok Bulletin: The UN and Human Rights in Asia-Pacific
• Fact sheet on OHCHR in the Field in Asia-Pacific
• Fact sheet on National Human Rights Institutions in Asia-Pacific
• Fact sheet on National Human Rights Plans of Action and Asia-Pacific

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Regional Representative for Asia-Pacific, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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