Democratic Governance

Human Rights Talk (HuRiTALK) is a UN-wide network managed by UNDP on behalf of the Secretary General's Action 2 Reform Programme, a global programme designed to equip UN interagency country teams to work with Member States, at their request, to bolster their national human rights promotion and protection systems. Members are sought from all UN agencies, in particular UN Country Teams. Government and civil society practitioners may also join. A key knowledge sharing and capacity building tool, HuRiTALK contributes to and complements efforts to establish a system-wide, centralized support for human rights capacity-building at country level drawing upon the human rights expertise of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the development and humanitarian expertise of United Nations operational agencies, so that the nexus between democracy, development and respect for all human rights can be realized.