Co-creating Knowledge on Applied Human Rights

Context:

1. the UNJPHR workplan illuminates the many intersections of human rights issues and agency mandates, and no single agency can frame the problems and solutions in isolation

2. Pre-service duty-bearers such as law students and students from other disciplines have research requirements that can be aligned with the many threads of inquiry in the Human Rights problem space

3. experts from the Bridging Leadership Institute and Caloocan Anti Drug Abuse Council have done recent work at these complex intersections

4. Analysts within each of the national government agencies may have the tendency to interpret intersectional work solely from the lens of their agency mandates

5. there are around 50 law schools in the Philippines

Response: Publish the Philippine Human Rights and Society Review

Mechanics:

1. publish a series of video discussions/podcasts from practitioners describing problems/ambiguities/tensions on human rights as applied in the real-world setting (based in part on the UNJPHR workplan)

2. Invite law students all over the country/world to do research papers on human rights and society in the Philippine context

3. curate the research papers and publish in the maiden issue of the Philippine Human Rights and Society Review

4. repeat after 1 semester

Proponents/Publishers

1. CSOs of the UNJPHR

2. Bridging Leadership Institute

3 Asian Center for Drug Policy

4. Asian Society of Community Rehab Practitioners

5. Integrated Bar of the Philippines (?)

6. UNJPHR (?)