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The workshop was convened as part of the efforts of the Working Group to draw lessons from experts and practitioners on access to effective judicial and non-judicial remedy. 2. The purpose of the workshop was to explore emerging global experience from States, business and other stakeholders on non-judicial grievance mechanisms and access to effective remedy. (...) At the workshop, participants discussed whether common elements of effective remedy outcomes could be identified. 28. (...) Participants discussed the need to ensure effective access to appropriate mechanisms and avoid duplication.

The aim is a security sector capable of delivering effective and legitimate security and justice functions fully consistent with the principles of democracy, good governance and the rule of law. (...) The OECD believes that a functional security sector is a precondition for effective conflict prevention, poverty reduction and development. (...) In accordance with the Code (sections VII and VIII), the democratic control of armed forces requires: — The primacy at all times of effective democratic constitutional civilian power over military power.

Panelists from different parts of the world with extensive experience in addressing sanitation issues at various levels shared their experience, the challenges encountered and their views on the way forward to achieve target 6.2. (...) In recognition of these outcomes, UNDP pledges that it will build on its five decades of experience supporting countries to achieve their development goals. (...) Participants were encouraged to draw best practices from river basin organizations with demonstrable experience in transboundary water cooperation, such as the OMVS (Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du fleuve Sénégal) that has forty years of experience in this respect.

During this conference, we will present our experience in dealing with terrorism, and we also look forward to benefiting from your experiences in this area. (...) In addition, the Conference will explore the lessons learned from the experience of states in combating terrorism and the identification of terrorist organizations and their structures. (...) Strengthening relations with non-government organizations to ensure an effective contribution to information-sharing relating to the fight against terrorism. 10.

As set out in the background paper, the right to an effective remedy entails both substantive and procedural obligations for States. (...) These small awards highlighted the challenges posed in compensation cases in many countries whereby the majority of those being prosecuted for trafficking tend to be lower-level agents such as recruiters or transporters who have limited assets against which to claim. The experience of Belarus also exemplified other trends found in some countries, such as the large proportion of compensation cases brought through criminal proceedings and the difficulty for civil society groups to obtain disaggregated trafficking-related data and statistics for use in advocating for more effective remedies. (...) It was noted, for example, that in which the way many States had translated their international obligations into domestic legal frameworks had had the effect of impairing many trafficked persons’ right to an effective remedy, including by excluding entire categories of trafficked persons from even the possibility of being recognized as such.

Another perspective shared by a participant was on the experience of the national human rights institution in Ghana and its function as a quasi-judicial mechanism. (...) Suggestions for addressing those gaps included making an A/HRC/29/28/Add.2 10 GE.15-07043 effective national legal system a criterion for accessing international funds. (...) However, it was also underlined that such mechanisms were only effective when people were aware of them and trusted them.

This can hamper swift, effective civilian protection and create an “interoperability” problem of divergent attitudes among troop/police contributing countries (TCCs/PCCs) to violence against women in security settings (...) One participant with experience of firewood patrols in Darfur stated: “If you want me to fly, first give me wings; then you can say whether I flew well.” (...) S/2008/402 08-39023 (C) 9 Support at the highest levels should be given to effective, path-breaking responses to women’s protection needs.

The effective exercise of national responsibility requires undertaking or at least facilitating efforts to access, assist and protect these IDPs. (...) Such campaigns will be most effective when they are developed in consultation with civil society and displaced communities. (...) A national policy on internal displacement will be most effective when developed in full consultation with IDP communities.

Investigation, prosecution and punishment .................................................... 62–68 15 D. Provision of effective redress, including reparations...................................... 69–71 17 E. (...) The fear of social exclusion and marginalization, and the lack of effective responses to violence, keeps them in a context of continuous violence and intimidation. 9. (...) National human rights institutions are crucial to promoting and monitoring the effective implementation of legislation and the State’s obligations under both national and international law.

Yet the few success stories do raise the possibility that NHRIs can emerge as effective institutions over a period of time with the support of the domestic and international human rights community. Experience with human rights institutions over the past decade also suggests that in this area of institutional reform one can never predict outcomes. (...) Develop Guidelines on Internal Displacement based on the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement to ensure a coherent, visible and effective policy of the NANHRI in this area, and assess their effective implementation； d.