These are few questions posed for you to ponder with regard to universal human rights instruments:
- Have you, in the exercise of your professional activities as judges, prosecutors, or lawyers, ever been faced with an accused person, defendant, respondent or client alleging violations of his or her rights?
- What was your response?
- Were you aware that international human rights law might provide guidance in solving the problem?
- Were you aware that the alleged victim might ultimately bring his or her grievances to the attention of an international monitoring organ?
- If not, would such an awareness have changed your manner of responding to the alleged violations of his or her human rights?
- Have you ever brought a case against your country before an international organ on behalf of an alleged victim of a human rights violation?
- If so, what was the outcome of the case?
- What was your experience generally of making such a complaint?
