Training, tools and resources
Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty Guidance and Tools
Education, Training Resources and Publications [1]
- E-Learning Equality and Human Rights in the Public Service:
- Equality Legislation: Explaining the Equal Status Act
- Explaining the Employment Equality Acts:
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, 2015:
- Irish Human Rights Commission, first published September 2010:
- The Equality Authority, 2010
- Equality Authority and Professional Development Service for Teachers, 2011
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Irish Traveller Movement, 2015
- Irish Human Rights Commission’s (IHRC), Report 2011
- Irish Human Rights Commission(IHRC)
- Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC)
Equality and Diversity and Grounds for Action
- CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit in collaboration with the Equality Authority and the Equality Commission of Northern Ireland
External Education and Training Resources and Publications
- Edeos Digital education GMbH
Human Rights explainer video
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- From Planning To Impact: A Manual On Human Rights Training Methodology Professional Training Series No. 6/Rev.1
- Video: What is a human rights body?
- Human Rights by Country – Ireland page
United Nations OHCHR Training and Education Materials
- Training and Educational materials consist of guides, manuals and handbooks for indigenous peoples, minorities, professional groups (e.g. police, prison officials, judges, parliamentarians, human rights monitors, election monitors and social workers) and educational institutions.
- Fact Sheets provide information on a wide range of human rights subjects. By researching and focusing on an issue, a Fact Sheet helps readers understand human rights and related topics, and the international machinery that has been established to promote and protect them.
- United Nations OHCHR on-Line Training Course: “Gender Equality, Human Rights and Me”
This online course has been designed to provide a basic understanding of gender equality and how to integrate a gender perspective into human rights work. Suitable and of interest also for non OHCHR staff working on gender and human rights. It deals with topics such as gender analysis, gender sensitive language and gender equal organisational culture. It also refers to a chapter of an OHCHR document on integrating gender into human rights monitoring - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) UN Free and Equal Initiative – a global UN public information campaign aimed at promoting equal rights and fair treatment of LGBTI people. It also provides education resources and FAQs
The National Disability Authority (NDA)
- The National Disability Authority has free online resources for helping public sector staff. These include a library, an online accessibility toolkit, an eLearning module for disability equality training, and videos of conferences and interviews.
- Resources: http://nda.ie/Resources/
- The e-learning is a short online training module entitled ‘Disability Equality Training’, which aims to help staff working within the Irish public sector to deal with customers with disabilities. The module is interactive and contains videos, text and assessment tools to provide an introduction to disability equality awareness training.
Inclusion Ireland
- Inclusion Ireland received funding from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission grant scheme for a project on the Public Sector Duty. A steering committee of 6 people with intellectual disabilities was picked for the project. This committee helped plan and carry out the project. The project comes with two booklets, a guide called ‘What is the Public Sector Duty?’ and a checklist called ‘Checking a Public Service for Accessibility’.
Other External Resources
- UN Treaty Bodies’ Concluding Observations on Ireland
- Consultation Guidelines
DPER Consultation Principles and Guidance 2016
Ask Me: Guidelines for Effective Consultation with People with Disabilities, National Disability Authority
Equality and Human Rights Values-based Frameworks
- A framework of equality and human rights values: Autonomy, Democracy, Dignity, Inclusion, Social Justice. This was developed by the Equality and Rights Alliance to underpin equality and human rights in the context of the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty in Ireland.
- The PANEL framework of principles: Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination and Equality, Empowerment, and Legality. This approach was developed by the Scottish Human Rights Commission to underpin the implementation of a human rights-based approach as part of its equality and human rights impact assessment resource.
- The FREDA framework of values: Fairness, Respect, Equality, Dignity and Autonomy. This approach was developed in the UK health sector to support the NHS to use a human rights-based approach to improve service design and delivery.
External Resources on Procurement
The European Network of National Human Rights Institutions’ (ENNHRI 2017) statement on public procurement – European NHRIs adopt a Common Position on the human rights implications of privatising or contracting out public services
Ireland
- DPER_Circular 20_2019_ Promoting the use of Environmental and Social Considerations in Public Procurement
- Section 18 European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016
- OGP Public Procurement Guidelines For Goods And Services
- OGP Information Note Incorporating Social Considerations into Public Procurement 2018
- National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights 2017-2020
EU
- Article 18(2) of Directive 2014/24/EU.
CHAPTER II General rules Article 18 Principles of procurement (2)
The European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI)
Business and Human Rights:
- Recommendations to the new EU Commission: developing and adopting an EU-level Action plan on Business and Human Rights, 8 November 2019
- Statement on Occasion of the 4th session of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, 15 October 2018
- Statement on Business & Human Rights at the 89th CDDH Plenary meeting 28 June 2018
- Statement at Council of Europe High Level Seminar on Business and Human Rights: Human Rights Implications of Privatising or Contracting Out Public Services, 9 June 2017
- Recommendation for the Next EU Strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility, 1 April 2015
Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland Department of Finance PGN 03/18 – Human Rights in Public Procurement. 2018
The Procurement Guidance Note, ‘Human Rights in Public Procurement’, was developed by the Department of Finance in consultation with the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. It sets out the legal obligations for contractors to consider human rights when conducting procurement processes. It includes measures to prevent and mitigate human rights violations. - Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission animation on procurement and human rights.
An animation on Procurement and Human Rights, which highlights how businesses might prevent and mitigate human rights violations, such as mapping its supply chains and establishing transparent grievance mechanisms. It contains several case studies of public procurement activities that have gone wrong, often with fatal consequences. - The Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Forum was established by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in 2015 as a multi-stakeholder platform for engagement by Government, business and civil society on business and human rights issues.
Scotland
[1] Views expressed in external links are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.