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Ministerial/NGO Forum on Human Rights

Minutes of meetings

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• Meeting [16 September 2004] (208KB)
• Meeting [20 May 2004] (388KB)
• Meeting [5 February 2004]
• Meeting [25 September 2003]
• Meeting [8 May 2003]
• Meeting [23 January 2003]
• Meeting [24 October 2002]
• Meeting [27 June 2002]

Forum Sub-Committee -Minutes

• Meeting [24 July 2003]

Background papers

• Meeting of 5 February 2004 - Matters arising from meeting of 25 September 2003
• Meeting of 5 February 2004 - Speech by David Lammy MP
• Meeting of 5 February 2004 - Outline letter on Human Rights Strategic Review
• Inter-Departmental Review of UK Position on International Human Rights Instruments - 2002 - LCD Paper
• Human Rights NGO Forum Framework Response - paper by the Joint Committee on Human Rights
• Monitoring Progress on Recommendations by International Treaty Monitoring Bodies - Propopsed Sub-Committee - LCD Paper
• Should the Single Equality Commission be able to protect human rights? - Paper by Sarah Spencer
• Litigation Strategy - Paper by the Lord Chancellor's Department
• Children and Young People's Unit - the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Annexes, Part 3
• UN 4th Report under Article 19
• Appendix 4, UN - Concluding Observations - UK
• United Kingdom's 5th Periodic Report
  United Kingdom's 5th Periodic Report, and its 4th/5th Report in respect of its Overseas Territories (CCPR/C/UKOT/5)
• Part 1: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Appendix 1)
• Physical Punishment of Children
  Lord Chancellor's Department Ministerial Forum on Human Rights
• From the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State David Lammy MP
• Sub-committee to monitor progress on recommendations by international treaty monitoring bodies
  Lord Chancellor's Department Ministerial Forum on Human Rights

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NGO Forum

In 2002 the Lord Chancellor's Department established a joint Government/NGO Forum for ongoing discussion about how to implement and develop human rights policy. Yvette Cooper, MP, Minister with responsibility for human rights policy at the Lord Chancellor's Department chairs the forum. The Forum discusses progress on the Review of International Human Rights Instruments; follow up recommendations by international monitoring bodies such as the United Nations Human Rights Committee; and general policy issues arising from the Human Rights Act, with emphasis on constructive dialogue.

The core membership consists of the principal organisations concerned with promotion of human rights within the UK, including Amnesty International, The Bar Human Rights Committee, the British Institute of Human Rights, Charter 88, the Committee on the Administration of Justice, the Institute for Public Policy Research, JUSTICE, the Law Society, Liberty, The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, and the Scottish Human Rights Centre. The Forum welcomes other organisations, as the need arises.