GI-ESCR met with the Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division (CTMD) Mahamane Cisse-Gouro and Chiefs of the CTMD in Geneva.

GI-ESCR, together with other civil society representatives, attended a bi-annual meeting with the Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division (CTMD) Mahamane Cisse-Gouro and Chiefs of the CTMD in Geneva.

 The main topics of the meeting were the improvement of the cooperation between United Nations human rights mechanisms as well as other United Nations entities.

 The Chiefs shared new planned initiatives in this context and asked for civil society inputs. They also ensured that civil society’s engagement in the human rights mechanisms’ activities as well as more in depth cooperation of various United Nations agencies are one of the most important priorities.

 In the end of the meeting the Chiefs addressed the long standing issue concerning civil society’s participation in the Human Rights Council Sessions which, according to them, should continue in the hybrid format established during covid-19 pandemic.