Human Rights Consortium Cymru brings together voluntary organisations and wider civil society to coordinate and strengthen Human Rights work in Wales.
Managed by WCVA, the Human Rights Consortium Cymru project brings together voluntary organisations and wider civil society in Wales who are working on Human Rights.
The project aims to:
- Amplify the voice of the voluntary sector and increase its influence in human rights policy, legislation, and practice in Wales.
- Create more opportunities to work together and achieve change in relation to human rights in Wales.
- Strengthen the capacity of Welsh voluntary organisations to understand, use, and influence human rights.
- Coordinate human rights work in Wales, collaborating with devolved nations human rights consortia and networks, and work with UK human rights networks and organisations.
OUR SISTER ORGANISATIONS
There are existing human rights consortia in Northern Ireland and Scotland. It is important that our projects have the same name for joint work across the devolved nations and with our funder, LEF. That’s why we’ve called the project Human Rights Consortium Cymru.
Ele Hicks is the Human Rights Consortium Cymru Project Manager. You can contact Ele on: ehicks@wcva.cymru.
WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO ACHIEVE?
Through this project we want to:
- Coordinate and collaborate to ensure the voluntary sector’s voice is heard in Human Rights law, policy and issues at a Welsh and UK level.
- Put the voluntary sector in a stronger position to inform law and policy relating to human rights. We will do this through enhancing the capacity of organisations working on human rights and working with individuals with lived experience.
- Hold decision-makers to account so they are exercising their powers in the interest of communities and upholding rights.
- Improve human rights protections. Protecting existing rights (and preventing regression), building the evidence-base / case for incorporation, legislation, and policy, progressing human rights through policy approaches, and engaging with officials and politicians.
- Make sure the voluntary sector’s needs, challenges, and priorities are clearly understood and used to inform the design and direction of Human Rights Consortium Cymru.
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
The project will focus on:
- Responding to the highest priority consultations and enquiries, especially on a Welsh and UK level, from a human rights perspective.
- Developing partnerships with voluntary organisations and civil society organisations in Wales who work on (or want to work on) human rights.
- Collaborating with Welsh and UK partners, attending networks, forums and meetings around human rights and promoting human rights issues and responses from the voluntary sector in Wales.
- Responding to enquiries from voluntary organisations in Wales around human rights.
- Coordinating work around the rise of extremism, hate, and mis/disinformation in Wales.
- Developing briefings on key human rights issues for voluntary organisations in Wales.
- Working towards incorporation of human rights treaties directly into Welsh law and policy.
- Investigating the voluntary sector’s needs and the added value Human Rights Consortium Cymru could bring through comments, surveys, focus groups, and one-to-one chats.
GET IN TOUCH
If your organisation works on human rights in Wales and wants to get involved email: ehicks@wcva.cymru.
