Capacity Development

The 2026 edition of the Cross-Regional School on Climate Action and Human Rights successfully concluded in Chișinău, bringing together 20 emerging professionals, students, researchers, and civil society representatives from Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, the Western Balkans, and beyond for an intensive week of learning, dialogue, and action on one of the most pressing challenges of our time.

Global Campus co-organizes the 34th Human Rights and Peoples’ Diplomacy Training in Dili

The webinar was organized with the support of the European Union and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), within the framework of the EU-funded project “Strengthening Human Rights Advocacy Among Youth in Belize Through Academic Research, Capacity Building, and Human Rights Education”, implemented by the University of Belize in partnership with the Global Campus.

As part of the international mobility scheme offered under the Huqooq-e-Pakistan II project, five students from Pakistan recently travelled to Lido to participate in the Venice School for Human Rights Defenders, one of the Global Campus flagship training initiatives. The initiative was implemented in partnership with UNDP Pakistan and funded by the EU, providing students with opportunities to engage in specialised human rights education programmes across the Global Campus network.

The Global Campus has successfully concluded the first phase of its capacity development workshop series for the Shaista Ikramullah Human Rights Education Centre (SIHREC) in Lahore, within the framework of the Huqooq-e-Pakistan II project, implemented by UNDP Pakistan and funded by the European Union. The concluding training activities were delivered in a hybrid format, bringing together SIHREC staff, UNDP representatives and Global Campus experts to consolidate the knowledge and skills developed over the previous months.

The Global Campus of Human Rights salutes the inauguration of the Shaista Ikramullah Human Rights Education Centre (SIHREC) held on 9 February 2026 in Lahore. Established to advance human rights higher education in Pakistan, the Centre is part of the Huqooq-e-Pakistan II project, implemented by UNDP Pakistan and funded by the European Union.

As part of the Huqooq-e-Pakistan II project, the Global Campus of Human Rights continues to organise international mobility opportunities for Pakistani students pursuing human rights studies. Implemented in partnership with UNDP Pakistan and funded by the European Union, the initiative is open to students from the University of Baluchistan, Habib University in Karachi, the University of Peshawar and Lahore University of Management Sciences.

In October and November, the Global Campus and the University of Belize ran a series of online seminars, engaging 52 participants from academia and civil society. The programme concluded with an in-person networking event, where participants received certificates and the University President was recognised with an appreciation certificate for the institution’s support of human rights education.

The Global Campus of Human Rights (GC), the Human Rights Centre of the National University of Timor-Leste (HRC-UNTL), and the Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) hosted by the University of New South Wales (Sydney) are pleased to continue their collaboration in advancing human rights education and capacity building. With renewed support from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAECI-DGMO), the three partners will join forces once again in 2026 to organize the Human Rights and People’s Diplomacy Training Program for Human Rights Defenders from the Asia-Pacific Region.