 Colleagues, over to you, Elisa. Good afternoon, good morning, and good evening. My name is Elisa Toroitich. I work with the Lutheran Wall Federation as head of Global Advocacy, and I am one of the co-chairs of this task team. Over to you, Elisa. Thank you so much, Elisa. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everyone. My name is Elisa Gadzotti, and I work for Soca Gakka International, and I charge of human rights education, and I'm also the co-chair of this Human Rights Engagement Task Team. Nice meeting all of you. Wonderful. So now you know the team, and we will share with you an overview of the Human Rights Engagement Task Team. Just to start with, the task team has quite an ambitious goal, we would say, because it is really trying to bridge the humanitarian and human rights world, and from the registration details you received about you, you are coming from different backgrounds and contexts, and you may know that often we work in parallel instead of looking into synergies between the different types of stakeholders. So the task team is really here to bridge those elements, and I will give the floor to Isaiah to tell us more about how the task team functions and how it is structured. Over to you, and we can move to the next slide, please. Thank you very much, Valerie, and indeed you have sort of explained what this grand vision we have is all about, but I think it should be useful for you participants to know that we've only been existing since May of 2020. At the moment we have about 40 members. These are organizations from the United Nations system, but also NGOs. In some cases we have international and national NGOs, faith-based organizations, and others are participating in our task team. At the moment, as we said in the introduction, the task team is co-chaired by the UNHCR, by the Lutheran World Federation, the Soka Gakkai International, and we meet every Wednesday of every month, actually. And our next meeting will be on the 26th of May, at 2.30pm, Geneva time. We really, really hope that you will be interested and that you can join this meeting. Information about that will come on later. What I wanted to do with the next one and a half minutes or so is to talk a bit about the objective of this task team and then talk a bit more concretely about what we actually do. The first objective, which I think is quite important for us and for all of you, is the use of human rights tools to protect the rights of people affected by humanitarian crisis. So this is one key objective. The next one is the utilization of human rights mechanisms, be it the UPR system, be it SIDAO, be it the Human Rights Council, and other human rights mechanisms in the context of the Global Protection Clusters effort to raise awareness and to advocate on behalf of people who are affected by crisis. And then the third objective I wanted to mention is related to the fact that we are different organizations working in different contexts, covering different sectors. And so we would like to use our task team as a platform to exchange knowledge and to share good practice. And we already see this in our monthly meetings where individual organizations and experts come on board to share the experiences from their work in different parts of the world. So this is really, really the great, in a sense, the broad objective of the task team. And then when we talk about concretely what this means, the first thing that comes to our mind as a task team is supporting the work that is being done at the field level. So supporting field clusters, supporting NGOs at the local level in terms of providing comprehensive technical support to enable them to link their work, the protection work to human rights. And then the second one that is quite concrete is providing guidance and policy development, which is very much looking at ensuring that right from the local national, regional, global level, there is products, this evident base research and documentation that helps to bridge humanitarian work, human rights, peace, development. If you will be looking also at it from the triple nexus of peace, development, and humanitarian action. And then lastly, we invest quite a lot in capacity building and training. And this is very much around training in terms of advocacy training, human rights training, training on specific human rights instruments and making sure that our field operations, the colleagues in the field have the necessary tools and awareness and capacity to do this work. So this is a broad definition or introduction of why we exist. And I would like to hand over the floor to Valerie to take us to the next part of the presentation. Over to you, Valerie. Thank you, Isaiah. And we can move to the next slide, please. So Isaiah just mentioned that we are still very new and not even one year ago that our team has been created. But what was really important for us, that we start by consulting our colleagues in the field, the colleagues working at the forefront of the humanitarian crisis, and we ask them what are their needs vis-à-vis the linkages with human rights systems. And here is a very broad summary summarized on one slide. So first of all, they said capacity building because humanitarian actors are very rarely trained and made aware about what are the human rights mechanisms, how we can use them strategically, why they could bring an added value to our work, et cetera. So if we want to use them, we need to first be aware of them and this goes to local actors, international actors, et cetera. Second area where they thought they would need some support is on strategic engagement with the national human rights institutions. So national human rights commissions, on-boots persons, they may have different forms in different contexts, but how can we use their mandate, which is quite unique to and complementary to our actions to advance our protection dividends. Further on, colleagues felt that they would like to receive support with engagement directly with human rights mechanisms and Isaiah already mentioned a variety of them, but this can range from inputs to the universal superior degree view or getting in touch with a special reporter on certain thematic, et cetera. This goes to the UN human rights mechanisms but also to the regional ones. Another area that they highlighted was that we should use more human rights aspects in our advocacy protection strategies have the human rights angle, which is very important and which is also there to tackle the root causes. And this is linked to the monitoring activities and how we identify also through the protection incidents the rights that are impacted by those protection incidents. So a key area which is now identified as a gap. Further on, they asked if we can set up some peer exchanges between colleagues or good practices, what has worked, how, why, et cetera. So this is another area we are working on and provide a clear guidance on how actually colleagues on the ground in humanitarian settings can engage with human rights systems and what is their role. All this should be supported by colleagues that are on standby to provide guidance, advice, availability for brainstorming when needed. So those are the key areas that have been suggested and we will move to the next slide where I will share with you very briefly what we have done so far in one of the three pillars that Isaiah outlined being the field support. So after the consultations I just familiarize yourself with we have started to conduct thematic webinars. This is very important so that we have an open channel of communication with colleagues around topics tackling human rights engagement in humanitarian settings. So we conduct them on monthly basis. If you are interested to join we would be happy to share with you the details. We have also set up a peer exchange group which is more of a closed-door space under Charham rules, so no notes, no recording where we meet every two months and share also between us what are the challenges, what are the key questions and how we can learn from each others. We have established a specific calendar so each country has a predictability how they can engage with human rights mechanisms throughout the year and also provide a targeted support. So if a colleague in Mali has a question on how we can engage with human rights institutions we can be on call and discuss. So there has been targeted country support also discussions around the secretary general's call to action for human rights and agenda for protection that we will tackle a bit later and we really try to have targeted discussions based on the interest of our field colleagues. This was for example on reprisals and protection of civic space as well as protection analytic framework so how do we integrate human rights angles into protection analysis. So those are just some examples that we have already put in place and I will give the floor to Elisa to share with us what we have done on the capacity building pillar and we can move to the next slide please. Thank you so much Valery and Desire. So as they both mentioned the important pillar in our task team is the capacity building pillar which also includes trainings. The aim is really to ensure that the field actors can enhance their capacities on human rights mechanism and how to really engage with the human rights. In this sense I will present now some of the activities that we started to conduct. One and tools. One is the creation of a simple database of resources available with free existing resources that were already made by our organization in our task team. Second, we are developing currently a good practice dashboard that aims at containing how to really engage with human rights, human rights mechanism and really aims to as Isaiah mentioned before to really have this peer to peer sharing to really learn from what has already been done from our colleagues. And then we have developed three training packages on human rights engagement namely one stakeholder analysis second human rights analysis infographic and third how to engage internally displaced people on human rights. In addition we have developed two trainings on human rights mechanism that were already delivered in English and French. Then thanks to NGO of our human rights engagement task team called UPI Front Info were delivered three trainings in French, English and Spanish. Then a module on human rights education in human right and setting is currently being developed and will be also delivered in the second part of this year. And then as also Valeria already mentioned we conduct monthly webinars that are delivered in English and in French. For instance in March was delivered this webinar on the strategic engagement with the Human Rights Council and was presenting the case studies of the solution on promoting protecting and respecting women's and girls' full enjoyment of human rights in humanitarian situations. And finally a session to Mali during the field training for coordinates was also developed. Thank you so much. We will now give over the floor to Isaya. And if I could have the next slide please. Thank you and colleagues you will remember that May last year was just two months after the COVID pandemic had hit the world and it has in a sense affected how we do advocacy at all levels. But one of the key messaging I would say that influenced a lot the way we were thinking was also how COVID as a pandemic was affecting the human rights of people, displaced people, host communities, refugees, asylum seekers and so we've tried as much as possible to use the opportunity that was available for us to do some international advocacy. I think it was particularly interesting the amount of work we did in terms of engaging with special rapporteurs with different mandates to talk to us quite a lot about the protection of people that are particularly vulnerable in the context of humanitarian crisis. We also managed to organize a number of high level events including one during the Global Protection Forum of 2020 and then we are in fact organizing an event right now that will take place on the 6th of May at one o'clock I would highly encourage you to join us and we can send you information about it and in addition to that we did follow the processes related to the Human Rights Council last year and also including this year when we as you know we just finalized the first session of the Human Rights Council for 2020 and there's two more to go and we are finding ways of providing oral statements in some cases bringing the voices of people from the field to speak on their on their own behalf about their own situations I think it would also be important to mention that part of our advocacy is very communications oriented sort of finding opportunities to run social media campaigns we did in fact get videos from rights holders and from our friends and partners at country level to share experiences and why it is important to connect human rights with humanitarian response and I thought that was quite successful and these are things we intend to keep doing as Valerie and Elisa said a lot of our members within the task team are taking their own initiatives to engage in advocacy on behalf of the entire task team and this is something we encourage a lot we as Valerie mentioned as well started to engage quite deeply with the secretary general call to action and agenda for protection having talked for example with the teams there but also already collecting input from our membership and from the cluster as to how these two clarion calls from the UN level can be supported and can be implemented on the ground lastly I just want to mention that we've done some research with in partnership with overseas development institute and that we have had several direct engagement with diplomatic missions in Geneva basically talking to them as well about the objectives of this team and about their own governments abilities and support towards further integration of human rights into humanitarian response and humanitarian work we in fact have a meeting with a number of them I think it's on May 10 later in the week to see how we can move this work further I'm going to stop there maybe hand over to you Valerie to take us to the next part Thank you so much Isaiah so you have heard some of our achievements or where we could get so far I have also posted in the chat information about the first event that we are organizing with presentations by the special reporter on IDPs the global protection cluster global coordinator, secret originals, executive office colleagues but also two voices from the field so you may be interested to join and as Isaiah mentioned there are various initiatives in the pipeline including the research with ODI thematic webinars capacity building etc so all those initiatives will be coming in the upcoming weeks and we would be very happy to tell you more about it and I think we can stop here actually so that we can have some 10 minutes for our interactions and we hope that this very brief presentation has sparked some interest for you in the task team and we would be very happy to connect bilaterally as well we have had one question from Kotikin OHCHR actually from Elise how do we coordinate with OHCHR in this task team so this is excellent question and we know that when we say human rights professionally we think immediately about OHCHR which is great and they are an integral part of this task team so we have colleagues that are not only of course members but also part of the strategic engagement we engage across OHCHR mainly with the humanitarian affairs unit but also with colleagues in the special procedures branch UPR and others and also OHCHR colleagues in the field and the human rights advisors to resident coordinators so it's really a cross-cutting element and the collaboration is very close I hope Elise has answered your question thank you very much yeah thank you very much for your answer wonderful thank you and I would invite other colleagues to have any reflection or question to share it with us you can take the floor maybe if you raise your hand we can maybe put on the screen Peter our contacts okay next slide thank you okay I see a hand from Isaiah so over to you Isaiah thank you I just wanted to follow up on your last comment about the important role of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and I wanted to follow up by saying in addition to these key expertise we get from that office as well as the key expertise we get from the UNHCR there is an important connection that we have to NGOs and civil society organizations we feel quite strongly that the collaboration between the UN agencies and civil society organizations on this agenda is particularly important so I just wanted to emphasize that we try to keep the circle complete by connecting the relevant UN agencies but also the relevant humanitarian and human rights non-governmental organizations over to you thanks so much Isaiah for bringing this important point colleagues I think this is about it about our quick page session on the Human Rights Engagement Task Team if you are interested to know more or to join some of our events as well as maybe even monthly meetings please don't hesitate to reach out to Elisa, Isaiah or myself and we will definitely follow up and we strongly encourage you if you are available and interested to join our session on Thursday at one o'clock Geneva time thank you very much and let us be in touch thanks everyone