Kan FN forhindre krænkelser af menneskerettighederne?

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the Human Rights up Front (HRuF) Initiative in 2013. It aims to ensure that the UN system takes early and effective action, as mandated by the Charter and UN resolutions, to prevent or respond to large-scale violations of human rights or international humanitarian law. 

It seeks a cultural change within the UN system to make human rights and the protection of civilians a system-wide core responsibility.

This seminar will discuss how the UN, Member States and civil society can work together to improve the response to situations of grave violations of human rights.

In what way does the HRuF-initiative change UN operations? How can support for the initiative be strengthened among Member States?

And how can the UN better interact and leverage civil society?

Speakers:

• Ben Majekodumni, ‎Senior Human Rights and Political Affairs Officer at United Nations leading the HRuF initiative
• Eva Grambye, Deputy Executive Director, Head of Int’l Division, Danish Institute for Human Rights
• The discussion will be moderated by Kristian Fischer, Director, Danish Institute for International Studies

Yderligere oplysninger hos: Mette Fjalland, UNDP’s Nordic Office,[email protected], mobile +45 5183-6228.

Bios of the speakers:

Ben Majekodumni, ‎Senior Human Rights and Political Affairs Officer at United Nations leading the HRuF initiative. Ben Majekodunmi works in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, where he is responsible for day to day implementation of the Secretary-General’s Human Rights up Front initiative.

He has previously worked for the UN's departments for human rights (OHCHR), peacekeeping (DPKO), children (UNICEF), development (UNDP) and refugees (UNHCR), and for the office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. He is currently based in New York and has previously been based in Rwanda, Burundi, Darfur, Nepal, Lebanon, Haiti, and Geneva on several occasions.

Ben Majekodunmi was a staff member of the UN Commission of Inquiry into allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur that led to the Security Council’s first referral of a situation to the International Criminal Court. He was one of the two authors of the Secretary-General’s Internal Review (2012) of UN performance during the final stages of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict that concluded there had been a “systemic failure” of UN action.

In follow-up to the Sri Lanka report he was a lead drafter of the Secretary-General’s Human Rights up Front policy. He is Nigerian and British, and was educated in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and France.

Eva Grambye is Deputy Executive Director at the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), heading the International Division. DIHR is a State institution independent of the Government and established by law. The International Division works with states, international organisations civil society and the corporate sector, to strengthen human rights.

Before joining the Institute, Mrs. Grambye served in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs most recently as Special Envoy for the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) and with postings in Geneva and Washington DC. She began her career in the UN system as Junior Professional Officer, UNDP/GEF, New York. Mrs. Grambye’s responsibilities have involved green growth, development cooperation, public-private partnerships, humanitarian assistance, human rights and security policy.

Mrs. Grambye is an International Women’s Foundation Fellow and she has completed Executive Leadership Education at Harvard Business School and INSEAD.