Advocacy

These include the issuing of thematic or country-specific statements, principles, recommendations, and other outputs, as well as direct engagement in broader multilateral processes (e.g. the UN Human Rights Council, UNGA, UNESCO) to emphasise the Coalition’s agreed-upon language, present a unified front in relation to priority policy areas and/or more specific situations, and advance these in relevant diplomatic spaces.

FOC Members may seek to respond to relevant consultation processes and submit agreed-upon language sourced from consensus-based FOC documents (eg. thematic statements). 

Recent examples of coordinated FOC input into relevant multilateral processes include:

• The joint statement delivered at the 54th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva in October 2023 by the United States;
• The joint statement delivered at the 52nd Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva in March 2023 by the United States;
• The joint statement delivered during the Third Committee Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran in October 2022 by the Netherlands;
• The joint statement delivered at the 47th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva in July 2021 by Finland;
• The joint statement delivered at the 43rd Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva in March 2020 by Germany;
• The joint statement delivered at the 41st Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva in June 2019 by Estonia;
• The joint statement at the 38th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva in June 2018 by Australia;
• The joint statement on the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference in October 2018.