This regional consultation, which took place in San José, Costa Rica on November 19- 20, 2016, was convened by the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, the Inter-American Institute for Social Responsibility and Human Rights, the Faculty of Law of the University of Costa Rica, and the Human Rights Institute of the National University of La Plate in partnership with Columbia University and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian law and Human Rights, for the purpse of engaging human rights experts with a focus on Latin America to identify opportunities and generate innovative ideas to timporove the functioning and deepen the impact of the UN human rights treaty bodies, and to promote synergies with the Inter-American Human Rights System.
