Jean-Claude Vignoli

Jean-Claude Vignolihttps://www.jcvignoli.com Official website is the co-founder of UPR Info, a Geneva-based human rights NGO. UPR Info is the first NGO working on the Universal Periodic Review process. He is journalist and writes for Swiss newspapers such as Le Courrierhttps://lecourrier.ch/auteur/jean-claude-vignoli/ Le Courrier author page for Jean-Claude Vignoli, and Heidi.News.https://www.heidi.news/profil/jean-claude-vignoli Heidi.News author page for Jean-Claude Vignoli He wrote a book titled Pour une poignée d'ivoire about his hunting of traffickers in animals in Ivory Coast.
He has been an international lecturer and trainer on the Universal Periodic Review, teaching to a various range of actors the Human Rights Council mechanism, such as academics in Venice.https://eiuc.org/news-events/latest-news/news-detail-page/the-global-classroom-on-the-universal-periodic-review.html The Global Classroom 2014 on the UPR, Global Campus of Human Rights, 2014,https://www.upr-info.org/fr/news/upr-info-venice-share-its-experience-students UPR Info in Venice to share its experience with students, UPR Info, 2014, government and NGO in Armeniahttps://www.mfa.am/en/press-releases/2015/11/23/un-rev/5719, human rights defenders in Togohttp://www.cacit.org/dialogue-gouvernement-societe-civile-lepu-togo-interview-directeur-programmes-de-lupr-info-jean-claude-vignoli/ Dialogue Gouvernement et société civile sur l’EPU au Togo : Interview du directeur des programmes de l’UPR INFO, Jean-Claude VIGNOLI, Collectif des Associations Contre l'Impunité au Togo, 2017http://togotopnews.com/index.php/societe/item/169-l-etat-et-les-osc-ensemble-pour-la-mise-en-oeuvre-des-recommandations-de-l-epu L’Etat et les OSC ensemble pour la mise en œuvre des recommandations de l’EPU, Togotopnews, 24 June 2017, in Genevahttp://www.ccig-iccg.org/?p=1346 CCIG Training Session on UPR Lobbying, International Catholic Centre of Geneva, 2015http://www.iimageneva.org/how-to-use-system-to-get-your-voice/ How to Use the System to Get Your Voice Heard, Istituto Internazionale Maria Ausiliatrice, 2015, and in Malawi.https://mwnation.com/ngos-crucial-to-universal-periodic-review/ NGOs crucial to universal periodic review, The Nation, 2015 He is the author of various studies assessing the success of on the UPR mechanism, which are scarce as regularly noted: "[...]empirical work assessing the extent to which UPR recommendations are implemented is scarce. Most of existing analyses have been carried out by the Geneva-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) UPR Info [...]"https://academic.oup.com/isq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/isq/sqz078/5567246 Promoting Compliance with Human Rights: The Performance of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies, International Studies Quarterly, 2019. He found a methodology to assess thousands of UPR recommendations by consulting dozen of thousands actors on the ground. He wrote, co-wrote and published three studies "On the Road to implementation", "Beyond promises: the impact of the UPR on the ground", and "The Butterfly effect: spreading good practices of UPR Implementation", totalling 12.000 recommendations. He is an expert on the Universal Periodic Review and was interviewed several time on this topic.https://www.letemps.ch/monde/liran-justifie-pendaisons-grand-oral-devant-conseil-droits-lhomme L’Iran justifie les pendaisons à son grand oral devant le Conseil des droits de l’homme, Le Temps, 2014https://www.heidi.news/profil/jean-claude-vignoli Jean-Claude Vignoli,Heidi.news,2019https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2015.1047202 Between learning and schooling: the politics of human rights monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review, University of Sussex, Jane K. Cowan & Julie Billaud, 2015
He was Board member of the Green party in Geneva (from 2011 to 2012) and the initiator of the We Pay Our Interns initiative, the first intiative of its kind that aims to ensure interns are remunerated in Genevahttp://www.world-psi.org/en/psi-holds-first-ever-un-side-event-fight-against-unpaid-internships PSI holds first ever UN side-event on fight against unpaid internships, Public Services International, 2016. He was Togo National Representative of EAGLE Network.
He is also a writer and published in 2023 "Pour une poignée d'ivoire", a book about his work as hunter of animal traffickers in Africa.
https://www.letemps.ch/culture/livres/jeanclaude-vignoli-chasse-chasseurs-delephants
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https://www.lemanbleu.ch/fr/Actualite/Culture/20230216135522-Quand-on-voit-un-elephant-agonisant-on-sait-que-l-on-est-en-train-de-perdre-un-des-joyaux-de-la-planete.html
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https://livre.fnac.com/a17447434/Jean-Claude-Vignoli-Pour-une-poignee-d-ivoire-Mon-combat-contre-le-trafic-d-animaux-sauvages.
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