Human Rights

The Liberal International Human Rights Committee is the sole executive body of the organisation in charge of promoting and advocating for human rights worldwide. Its mission is as follows:

• To serve as a framework for exchanging information, experience and good practices in advocacy and lobbying in the defence and promotion of human rights, particularly civil liberties, among liberals from across the world
• To speak on behalf of LI and support LI members in their efforts to promote sensible human rights policies on a national and international level
• To influence international politics where it concerns human rights, such as through involvement with the work of the United Nations and through the individual member parties and their respective spokespersons
• To build visibility of LI as a credible human rights actor within the international human rights community
• To counter human rights violations, especially those against political parties and activists

The Committee operates based on a three year project at a time and it currently focuses extensively on the following three priority areas:

Liberal International remains the only political international which has a Human Rights Committee and which actively contributes to the working mechanisms of the United Nations through its UN ECOSOC consultative status.

Here you can find the Rules of Procedure guiding the work and composition of LI Human Rights Committee as adopted and amended by the 199th LI Executive Committee meeting in Johannesburg.

You can find out more about the work of Liberal International’s Human Rights Committee here below.