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NEWSLETTER
OF THE GENERAL HUMAN RIGHTS UNIT
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
PARAGUAY UNITED
NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS
COUNCIL MEMBER
2015-2017
MINISTERIO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES
Unidad General De Derechos Humanos
PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL
TECHNICAL COOPERATION ON THE
FOLLOW-UP OF THE ACCEPTED UPR
RECOMMENDATIONS
THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL
TECHNICAL COOPERATION FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
RECOMMENDATIONS
The Paraguayan government is preparing a draft resolution, " Promoting International Technical Cooperation on
the Follow up of the Accepted UPR Recommendations ",
which will be presented during the 30th Ordinary Session
of the United Nations Human Rights Council, to be held
in September 2015.
Paraguay has accompanied the promotion of international technical cooperation on human rights in all international fora, recognizing the important role in supporting
States to meet their international commitments - including international recommendations received from the international system of human rights protection.
The project aims to support the implementation of the
accepted recommendations under the Universal Periodic
Review by strengthening international technical cooperation, and at the same time, supporting the Voluntary Fund
for Financial and Technical Assistance of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Additionally, the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),
has contributed for the construction of this project.
Paraguay has achieved a good experience with the establishment of Monitoring System on International Recommendations of Human Rights (SIMORE for its acronym
in Spanish). This project counted with support from the
OHCHR Advisor Office in Paraguay and the UPR Voluntary Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance.
Currently, the result of this cooperation is presented by
Paraguay to other countries and regions as a best practice
to be implemented internationally, with the ongoing support of OHCHR.
Paraguay is an international reference in Human
Rights recommendations Follow-Up systems
• With the assistance of the Human Rights Advisory
of the United Nations High Commissioner, in 20132014, the Monitoring System of International Human
Rights Recommendations (SIMORE) was developed in
Paraguay.
• Members of the offices of Human Rights and Informatics services of the Paraguayan Foreign Affairs Ministry have been invited to cooperate internationally in
order to exchange experience and training of SIMORE,
in the following events and countries:
• This system has been recognized internationally by
the United Nations and is being used as reference to
provide cooperation to other countries. To do this,
“SIMORE” materials have been translated to English,
aiming to internationalize it.
1. Geneva: Presentation as an example of State’s good
practice, organized by the NGO UPR Info.
• In addition, SIMORE has been recently awarded nationwide with
the WSA Paraguay award in the Inclusion & Empowerment category,
qualifying for its international stage.
2.Caribbean and South American English-speaking
countries: Bridgetown, Barbados
3. Central America: San José, Costa Rica;
4. Portuguese-speaking Countries: Brasilia,
Brazil;
5. Latin American Countries: Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Paraguay cooperates in the follow-up of human
rights international recommendations
SIMORE PRESENTATION IN COSTA RICA
• In Costa Rica, the “SIMORE” presentation was held,
within the framework of the Interagency Commission
for Follow-Up and Implementation of International
Human Rights Obligations Meeting.
Ing. David Candia of the
informatics services with
representatives of the Caribbean
countries.
TRAINING WITH
Caribbean and
South America
Anglophonic
COUNTRIES
The Monitoring System of International Human Rights
Recommendations (SIMORE), developed in Paraguay,
was presented at the “Caribbean countries Universal Periodic Review Process Workshop: how to transfer human
rights commitments to the national reality”, organized by
the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR), held in Bridgetown, Barbados
The following countries participated:
1. Antigua and Barbuda
8. Jamaica
2. Bahamas
9. St. Lucia
3. Barbados
10. St. Kitts and Neves
4. Belize
5. Dominica
11. St. Vicente and the Grandines
6. Grenada
12. Suriname
7. Guyana
13. Trinidad and Tobago
• Several participating institutions where accounted
with the Recommendations Monitoring System, and
the Paraguayan Institutional Structure, responsible for
monitoring Recommendations on Human Rights at international levels.
EXCHANGES WITH LATIN AMERICAN
COUNTRIES IN BUENOS AIRES
Paraguay presented the online tool “SIMORE” during the
Regional Good Practices Exchange in the Follow-Up and
Implementation of Recommendations of the Universal
Periodic Review (UPR). In this event participated delegates
from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and
Uruguay.
COOPERATION WITH AFRICAN,
EUROPEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN
PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COUNTRIES
Human Rights Director Romy Romero Meza, the seminar discussed in
Brasilia for Portuguese-speaking countries
SIMORE Training. In the city of Brasilia, SIMORE training was conducted for Portuguese-speaking countries of
Africa, Europe and South America, under the Universal
Periodic Review Workshop.
The following countries participated: Angola, Brazil, Cape
Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique,
Portugal, San Tome and Principe and East Timor.
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Edited by
Human Rights General Unit,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
14 de Mayo and Palma. Asubank Building 15th Floor
Asunción, Paraguay
[email protected] • www.mre.gov.py