Statement following the Danish Chairmanship’s High-Level Expert Conference
/EIN and 5 other NGOs have adopted a joint statement on the High-Level Expert Conference ‘2019 and Beyond: Taking Stock and Moving Forward from the Interlaken Process’, held in Kokkedal, Denmark from 22-24 November 2017. This is the first of the events to be held within the framework of the Danish Chairmanship of the Council of Europe. The undersigned organizations commended the Danish Chairmanship for its stated commitment to involving civil society throughout the process leading up to the adoption of a political Declaration on the European Convention on Human Rights’ system in April 2018 and urged it to focus on meeting existing legal and political commitments on national implementation, including those in the Brussels Declaration. A full text of the letter with the NGO recommendations can be found here.
The undersigned organizations:
Open Society Justice Initiative
Amnesty International
European Human Rights Advocacy Centre
European Implementation Network
International Commission of Jurists
World Organisation Against Torture