Human Rights Officer(Disablity and Older Persons Rights) at Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC)

24 Sep 2021 Human Rights Officer(Disablity and Older Persons Rights) at Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC)

• Contribute to the design and implementation of strategies aiming at enhanced promotion and protection of persons with disabilities and older person rights through regular and continuous monitoring and reporting; • Conduct monitoring on selected institutions to assess whether their policies and procedures are in compliance with international and regional human rights standards and produce reports with concrete remedial recommendations. • Ensure, coordinate and supervise the timely entry of accurate and verified human rights cases related to Persons with disabilities and older person rights into an established database; • Contribute to and/or draft various human rights reports, communications, briefing notes, statement or other products; • Conduct quality control, follow up on recommendations forwarded by relevant international and regional human rights bodies, by EHRC; and deliver statistics and trend reports as required; • Collaborate with team members and establish and maintain contacts with technical staff of government and non-governmental institutions, civil society organizations, UN agencies, private sector, development partners and other partners focusing on monitoring of Persons with disabilities and older person rights. • Conduct mapping of stakeholders and set up referral system to provide support to Persons with disabilities and older person who suffered human rights violation and are in need of support; • Collaborate with international and regional human rights system in general and more specifically in relation to Persons with disabilities and older person to follow up on recommendations and regular reporting on the human rights situation of Persons with disabilities and older person to relevant international and regional human rights treaty bodies; • Assist in conducting capacity-building activities on relevant human rights and in developing and implementing training programmes; • Ensure mainstreaming of Persons with disabilities and older person rights as relevant in other EHRC’s activities and programming; • Ensure the integration of gender perspectives, with specific attention to issues related to women and girls, including gender based violence; • Participate in investigation of cases of human rights violations involving Persons with disabilities and older person as needed; • Work with the Director to develop advocacy and campaign plan and engagement strategy on priority human rights issues; • Conduct awareness raising and campaigns on Persons with disabilities and older person rights to ensure adherence to national and international protection standards and guidelines; • Communicate with and influence a range of external stakeholders and advocacy targets including relevant authorities in the basis of identified gaps for the effective promotion and promotion of Persons with disabilities and older person rights;