by admin | Jan 31, 2024 | Council of Europe, Human Rights
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has elected the Irish human rights lawyer Michael O’Flaherty as the fifth Commissioner for Human Rights, following Dunja Mijatović (2018-2024). The previous Commissioners were Nils Muižnieks (2012-2018),...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Human Rights
Sine Qua Non, on its role of empowering Civil Society to access systems of international organisations, has expanded its toolkit to make them aware of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The main goal pursued with this extension is to explain this mechanism to civil...
by admin | Dec 27, 2023 | Democracy, Human Rights, Sine Qua Non
Sine Qua Non has been accepted as a member of the Global Democracy Coalition (GDC), a multi-stakeholder strategic alliance established in 2021. The GDC’s objective is to bring together organizations dedicated to advancing democracy, and to influence the...
by admin | Dec 13, 2023 | Human Rights, Language Rights
Sine Qua Non, along with six other civil society organizations from the Catalan-speaking area (Plataforma per la Llengua, el Sindicat d’Estudiants dels Països Catalans (SEPC), Fundació Escola Valenciana, Language Rights, USTEC-STEs and La Intersindical) informed...
by admin | Dec 4, 2023 | Human Rights
The Forum on Minority Issues is a platform for promoting dialogue and cooperation on issues related to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, as well as thematic contributions and expertise to the work of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues. It...
by admin | Dec 1, 2023 | Human Rights
As a contribution to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism’s mandate, SQN presented an input focused on the dangers of broadening the definition of terrorism and its consequencies...
