and I see more colleagues are joining and I believe it's time that we start, so as not to waste much of this pressure time. So good morning and afternoon, evening, colleagues, everybody who join us today for this webinar even on strategic engagement with the Human Rights Council. This is one of the webinars in our series, monthly series of webinars organized by the Global Protection Cluster Human Rights Engagement Task Team. So we have had in the past dedicated webinars to special procedures, to the Universal Periodic Review and other thematics. If you are interested to know more, we are happy to share with you the recordings as well. But today we will really focus on the Human Rights Council and more specifically how it is relevant for humanitarian actors. But before we start, I would like to ask actually Isaiah, my dear colleague, co-chair of the Human Rights Engagement Task Team, if he could just tell us in a nutshell what is this task team because not everybody may be familiar with it. So over to you, Isaiah, please. Thank you very much, Valerie, and good afternoon. Good morning and good evening, dear colleagues. So the task team on Human Rights Engagement is a task team of the Global Protection Cluster. We are a relatively new structure. We were established in May, 2020, and at the moment we have about 30 non-governmental organizations and UN agencies that are actively participating in the work of the task team. It is co-chaired by the UNHCR, so Valerie, who is the chair of the task team, I'm together with myself from the Lutheran World Federation and our colleague, Elisa, from Sokka Gakkai International. We have been working with NGOs and UN agencies that are dealing with many different issues and many different parts of the world, but on issues of human rights and then on issues of humanitarian action. So this has been sort of the unique nexus that our task team is managing. I wouldn't want to say much more, but it is important to just note that one of our key objectives as a task team is to use human rights tools to better protect the rights of people that have been affected by humanitarian crisis. And we are quite keen to work with and engage with existing human rights instruments and mechanisms, both internationally, regionally, and in some cases, nationally. We as a task team meet once every month, and so we would be very happy to tell you more information and maybe to receive you in our next meeting, which will happen in April. Back to you, Valerie. Thank you so much, Isaiah. And again, if somebody is interested to know more about the task team, we would be very happy to connect with you bilaterally. But for now, we will move to our today's event. So we will start, but before we start so that everybody feels comfortable, I would just like to mention as per usual practice in those webinars, if you can post your comments or examples, questions in the chat box, we will be constantly monitoring it and compiling your questions and come back to them after the brief presentations. And we really encourage you to take this event as an opportunity to brainstorm together, to exchange good practices. So the more active you are, the more we can get out of it, of course. I would ask everybody to remain on mute so that we can maximize the quality of the connection. And if you have any questions, also technical problems, please put it in the chat. We will be constantly monitoring that. Excellent. So with that, I think we are all ready. And today we have two distinguished panelists with us from the NGO world, which is fantastic. First of all, Paula Dahair, who is the Senior Global Advocacy Advisor in the Center for Reproductive Rights, who will be our first panelist, followed by Enzo, Enzo Tabet-Kruves, who is the Growth and Crisis Policy and Advocacy Officer in Plan International. So both of them have a wealth of experience on engagement with the Human Rights Council, and more specifically, how it is relevant for humanitarian actors. So I hope this will give us not only inspiration, examples, but also some ideas on how we could maybe have similar initiatives also within our organizations or within the cluster system. So without any further delay, I will give the floor to Paula. Paula, over to you, please. Thanks very much, Valerie. I'm just gonna share my screen so that everyone can see the presentation. I'm just, okay. I'm hoping that it's working now. Thank you, Azaya. So good afternoon, good morning, good evening, everyone. Many thanks to the Human Rights Engagement Task Team and to everyone who is joining us today. For those who don't know the Center for Reproductive Rights, maybe I'll start with a very quick introduction. So the Center is a legal advocacy organization that uses the law to further reproductive rights for all women and girls everywhere. And we have offices in New York, DC, Bogota, Geneva, Nairobi, and colleagues throughout Asia. And my role as Senior Global Advocacy Advisor based in the Geneva office is really to work at the level of human rights mechanisms and my main portfolio really is advocacy at the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms. So the Special Procedures and the UPR. And so today my presentation will really focus on how to kind of leverage the Human Rights Council and to make sure that the concerns and the priorities of women and girls at the local, national, and regional level are really elevated and amplified in this global body and how to really use it to make sure that whatever outcome of the Human Rights Council kind of goes back to women and girls themselves in order to create kind of a circle of accountability where they feed into the work of the council and then the work of the council can help them in their own advocacy. And to do that, I will use the case study of the Resolution 4529 on women and girls' full enjoyment of human rights in humanitarian situations. So just to give a brief overview, I'll go very quickly on the kind of technicalities. What is the Human Rights Council? What is it that we do as the center kind of using our example? And why it's important to be working in coalition and when I'm talking about coalition, it really is wide coalition. So human rights organizations, women's rights organizations but also humanitarian actors whenever relevant of course for their work. The action to date and kind of the genesis of the resolution and how it came about and then looking forward how we can work with this resolution, how we can kind of sustain it looking ahead. So first of all, what is it that we do at the Human Rights Council and what it is to start with? So the Human Rights Council is kind of the apex body. It's the highest kind of UN mechanism that we have that is being tasked to addressing and monitoring human rights situations. The council is made of 47 UN member states and it meets three times a year, usually in March, June and September, even though COVID has kind of changed that a little and it can also convene for special sessions whenever a certain situation in a given country for instance requires it or it has happened less for thematic issues but it can also be triggered for that. In terms of how we engage as the center for reproductive rights and kind of to give you kind of a very basic example on how we've been engaging at the Human Rights Council. So we engage first and foremost on advocacy on resolutions that are relevant to our work. And that is something that we do from our Geneva office but in close collaboration with our regional offices and with our partners in our focused countries. And we really try and ensure that first of all in terms of normative developments the highest human rights standards are reflected in resolutions of the Human Rights Council but also that the priorities that have been highlighted by our partners and regional offices are also being highlighted and discussed at the council. So there's the kind of the focus on the resolutions themselves in terms of amplifying the voices that are coming from the national and the regional level. We also engage quite a bit in terms of highlighting our work and amplifying our work through oral interventions that we can also present jointly with other organizations and also through the organization of site events which are also tools to outside of the work on the resolutions which is mainly kind of working very closely with states during their negotiations and being kind of providing technical support whenever is needed. Oral interventions and site events are also spaces for us to co-organize things with other organizations and with activists that are able to also engage at the council in order to also kind of amplify the work that we do at the national and regional level and amplify the voices of the movements that we are part of. So there's this work of amplifying there's this work around normative development and one of the like the last pillar around which our work is articulated it really is kind of monitoring and countering the opposition. And we work the Center for Productive Rights obviously it's all in the name. We really focus we're a human rights organization that focus on sexual and productive health and rights and it has been a trend for the past I would say six or seven years of course increasing the last four years and that we have seen a surge in attacks around women's rights in general gender equality in general and specifically on the issues that we work on. So we have seen a huge backlash in terms of access to contraception have seen a huge backlash in terms of access to abortion have seen a huge backlash just in terms of right to bodily autonomy for instance and certain issues that were not received as controversial a couple of years ago are now being up for debate and less debate may I say like gender discrimination for instance is becoming a term that is being discussed quite a bit. So there is this and all of that of course in all settings.  So this is kind of what we do an overview of our work at the Human Rights Council and one question that we often encounter is why engage at the Human Rights Council? And we tend to wanna go beyond the very obvious first response that comes to mind which is oftentimes well if we're not in that space then we kind of leave the whole space to opposition organizations, anti-choice organizations to gongos which are NGOs that are that are kind of the mouthpieces of certain governments and so we need to be in this space. But going beyond that I think it's also important to highlight that despite this severe backlash that women's rights organizations have had to face we have managed to kind of make significant gains at the Human Rights Council in terms of normative development but also in terms of shaping the agenda itself and this has come mainly through our work within coalitions. Obviously there's very little that we can do just as a human rights organization if we were not working very closely across borders. So very closely with organizations that don't have a presence in Geneva and also very closely with our colleagues here who are also engaging physically when physically still had meaning I mean in Geneva. So engaging at the Council has enabled us to kind of craft and carve out a space for a discourse that is being shaped by women human rights defenders, by feminist activists and by women's rights advocates. And that space has enabled significant gains to be made and just to highlight just a few a couple of years ago I think around maybe 10 years ago preventable maternal mortality and morbidity was not considered a human rights issue. Now we have a standing agenda resolution on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity at the Human Rights Council which is a biannual resolution and that has looked through the years at maternal mortality and morbidity for instance in humanitarian settings that has looked at the issue, particular issue of morbidities as human rights concern and that is really enabling us to really centering the voices of women and girls in these conversations. And so this is in terms of looking at my slide how impactful are informal civil society coalitions. This example on maternal mortality for instance is the direct result of the advocacy of an informal coalition. And we will see through the course of the presentation that the resolution on the resolution on women's and girls' rights in humanitarian situations was also the result of the work of an informal coalition that got together women's rights organizations, child rights organizations, humanitarian service providers and general human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty for instance. We also work very closely with Care International. So it has been kind of a collective effort and so we'll also speak about that maybe a little in terms of how we've been working together to ensure that this resolution was being adopted at the council. So in terms of action to date and a bit of genesis of this resolution, how it came about, we kind of built on the momentum that was happening at the Human Rights Council around the issue of SRHR in humanitarian settings. So as I mentioned, we had a resolution on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity that really focused on this issue in humanitarian settings. We also had another resolution on child early enforced marriage in humanitarian settings. We had a resolution on rights of the child in humanitarian settings and finally a resolution on the rights of persons with disabilities in humanitarian settings. And we really noticed that there was appetite from states to really look at the particular intersections of forms of discrimination that happened in these settings that kind of further marginalized certain groups of persons but also kind of added barriers to access to sexual and productive health information and services, barriers to access to justice, barriers to accountability. At the same time, I should also mention that the center is working very closely with CARE on a pilot project in Northern Uganda where we're kind of looking at incorporating human rights principles in SRHR service delivery and talking with our partners in CARE and working with them on that project. We really saw that there was kind of a place that could be filled actually by intervention from the Human Rights Council in terms of ensuring what rights based accountability would mean for women and girls. Something that would come as a compliment to all the already existing accountability mechanisms that a lot of humanitarian service providers already have kind of in-house and have developed and also what international humanitarian law would give us then what is the role of international human rights law and what is the role of human rights bodies in terms of trying to ensure accountability for women and girls in these settings. So with that rationale in mind seeing the dynamics that were happening at the council, we really thought that the time was ripe to try and advocate for a resolution focusing on rights based accountability for women and girls in humanitarian situations at the Human Rights Council. And so we started building kind of an informal coalition of allies, as I mentioned that spans a very, we try to make it as diverse and inclusive as possible and really kind of working very closely with states. The core group, meaning the group of states that is leading on this resolution is cross-regional. It includes Canada, Uruguay, Sweden, Georgia and Fiji. And they're also a mix of major donor countries but also countries that are directly affected either by being a post-conflict or by being concerned by natural disasters, for instance. And so with that group of states work very closely with them. They drafted the first draft of the resolution and then we kind of engaged in the advocacy itself last September. We were, the dynamics surrounding this issue were interesting because first of all, it's kind of a new initiative at the council. And so that always kind of tends to stir up conversations. But then the very notion of accountability was also being discussed. As I mentioned, some concepts that are core to international human rights law that didn't used to be controversial all of a sudden become subject to conversations which we found quite interesting. But after kind of a long process of negotiations, the resolution was finally adopted by consensus. And it is important because it's the first resolution at the Human Rights Council that really looks at meaningfully considers women and girls' full participation in all areas that are relevant to them in the context of humanitarian situations. And it's the first resolution that just looks at the full realization of their rights in these specific situations from a human rights based perspective. It looks at the interlinkages between IHL and IHRL not in depth because it's a procedural resolution meaning that kind of it initiates the whole stream of work that needs to happen at the council. So it's just kind of we had one para on the interlinkages of IHL and IHRL but we also had one para on meaningful participation, access to services, kind of laying the ground for the work that is to come at the council. And it requests the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report that should be presented at, now I'm blanking on the specifics at the 49th session of the Human Rights Council. And then we will have looking forward a substantive resolution that will kind of unpack all of these concepts. But now for now, ahead of us, we have a report that is really going to be instrumental in terms of fleshing out what it means, what broad space accountability means for women and girls in humanitarian situations. And so as I mentioned, in terms of the next steps, we'll have that report. I cannot stress enough how the perspective from humanitarian service providers will be in the realization and the writing and drafting of that report. OHCHR will share a call for submissions that we're happy to share. I'm happy to share with the task team when it comes. And I think that it would be crucial to highlight all of the already existing accountability mechanisms that exist out there and the lessons learned from these mechanisms and how can it be improved and what is the role of human rights in improving them and how can they be replicated and how can all stakeholders meaningfully engage with governments in order to kind of make mainstream these mechanisms in accordance, if I can put it this way, with governments' human rights obligations that continue to apply and to be applicable in humanitarian settings, whichever they might be. So the report will be highly useful. I also want to put it in parallel with a report that the working group on discrimination against women and girls will be presenting to the council this June, which is a report on SRHR in crisis. And I really think that with both these reports, normative development when it comes to that specific issue will kind of take leaps and bounds that have good hope. So I would highly again encourage you to send submissions to the OHCHR report. Center's event, we will have an event in June for the report on SRHR in crisis. We're happy to collaborate with whoever might be interested. I can also share my contacts for those who don't have it. And in 2022, we will have the substantive resolution that we really look at all the elements that form rights-based accountability and what are the relevant human rights standards that go with when we say safe, effective, full and meaningful participation of women and girls in humanitarian situations. What is it that we mean? How to ensure access to justice? How to look at justice beyond legal responsibility and criminal responsibility of perpetrators of sexual violence, which is where the discussion has been centered. So really kind of diving more deeply, but that's for 2022. And I think I'll stop there and I'm happy to take any comments. Thank you. Thank you so much, Paula, for this very comprehensive, I would say an inspiring overview of all the relative initiatives that the Center for Productive Rights has been conducting around human rights council and engagement with it. And with that, I would actually pass the floor directly to Enzo to share the experience of Plan International and compliment also Paula's presentation. Over to you, Enzo, please. Hi, Valerie. Thank you very much also for the invitation. I'm very happy to be here and presenting a bit of plan's work on the Human Rights Council and hopefully to bring some insights as well for all the participants as well, how they can engage in some of the conditions that also allow for that. So before I go on, I think it's important also to highlight just to explain a bit which perspective we're coming from. So a bit complimentary and a bit differently from what Paula was mentioning about the Center. We are an NGO who works more on the operational side. So we have programs in countries, humanitarian programings on all of the, most of the humanitarian crisis across the world, which brings a similar but as well a different lens and it comes also with different limitations and also with different enabling factors and how do we engage with the Human Rights Council? Just before also moving forward, I would just like to say that my role here in Geneva works mostly on the humanitarian policy side of things. So engaging, making sure that the perspectives of girls and young women are reflected within all of the global policy processes on the humanitarian side and particularly on the forced displacement issues but as well on some of the crisis specific countries we work with and that we have issues to raise on the global forests. So bringing basically an age gender and diversity lens to the whole humanitarian policy and of course now more recently to the human rights aspect of things which I'm gonna explain in a minute. So before moving forward, I just wanted to give a just pretty short presentation about planned international and who we are. So we are a development and humanitarian organization that we've mandated to advance students' rights and equality for girls. And we are active in 75 countries with 42 of them are affected by humanitarian crisis and our work on humanitarian crisis goes from the classic wash programings but also on child protection, education and gender equality and particularly looking at the participation of young girls affected by conflict in the different policy processes. Okay, so basically this is the main question, right? Why to bring humanitarian issues to the Human Rights Council? And then here I'm speaking about the perspective of the more humanitarian work. So first of all, it is an instrument for country accountability and protected crisis. I think we all know here that the majority of humanitarian crisis right now are long-term, which requires different solutions and different aspect of access to rights and services in countries, which becomes extremely important that we use the current mechanisms and the current ways to bring those accountability to practice. So I bring example basically to IDPs and refugees and also highlight the fact that we don't have any obvious forward to come for accountability for those populations on a global scale. So yeah, so I would like to highlight that within those instruments for country accountability, there are for example, the fact-finding missions and the commissions of inquiry, which are mandated to verify the situation of human rights in some of the countries. And that's one of the things why it's important to bring about the humanitarian aspects to those mandates and make sure that they are reflected on the report and on all the work. I'm gonna come back to this later. And the second is it is an effective global platform to bring attention to humanitarian crisis. And that's particularly on what they mentioned before about state's responsibility to uphold the rights of refugees in IDPs. And that's on areas that we are all familiar, which is about education, protection, access to health, and particularly also for refugees and in the recent developments within the global compact refugees wants to achieve as well. And now recently on the high level pan and IDPs, those access to services become even more important to bring about and to make sure that they are addressed. And that's why the Emirates Council, it's another good body to bring about the specificities of in our case of gross education, for example, for refugee gross education on the Emirates Council, but also on child protection and others. Then the third is that it complements traditional humanitarian advocacy, which most of you are used to in your daily work, which is basically about more focus on the coordination on the funny aspect of the crisis on the intrinsic qualities of response. So it brings basically a new perspective and it complements through a rights-based approach that enables new responses and new ways to complement what's the traditional humanitarian advocacy that we do works in practice. So now I'm gonna walk through some of the avenues we have used and it's important also to highlight that this work has been recent. So we have been engaging on this in the past three years, more or less, and really stepping up this year on the different initiatives. So the first of all, it's engagement with the Emirates Council resolutions. So what would be the goal of engaging on the humanitarian perspective on that? So basically, as Paula was mentioning, is to contribute to this long-term standard setting and framing of issues. So certain issues, for example, like the birth registration and this kind of things in humanitarian settings, where you need to consider a human rights issue before, but also to bring specific perspectives and framings of some of the traditionally human rights issue to bring more humanitarian perspective to those. And that we have the right of the child in humanitarian settings. We have also the child marriage, which was another resolution which brought about what are the kind of violations that young girls face on those humanitarian crisis. And the last one, which Paula has explained in details about the accountability for women in girls in humanitarian settings. So it's really about building this long, this framing and long-term standard setting for the issues happening on the humanitarian settings. The second of all, I'm not gonna focus too much on those because I'm aware that you also had a different webinar around engagement, special procedures, but nevertheless, it's important to highlight that it is an important space where you can bring emerging humanitarian issues on really specific themes. And for us, engagement with the special rapporteur and IDPs has been really a wonderful collaboration that it's really on its core and of the bandit to have this integration about the issues that happens with internally displaced people and bring them with a human rights angle and accountability angle. But there's also other special rapporteurs that we have equally used to bring about some of the issues we have been witnessing on some of the humanitarian crisis we work, sorry about the order. Yes, so then the first one and the other one which we would like to highlight and that's probably very interesting for you is that it's about the interactive dialogues and unconscious specific situations. And those are discussions at the Human Rights Council which are based on some of the accountability that I mentioned before, the accountability instruments like fact-finding missions, commissions or reports of independent experts around certain counter-specific situations that bring about what are the human rights situations happening in country. So for us, the two, we had two goals of engaging on those, first of all to analyze how global discussions were addressing the specific conflicts we were working on to gauge a bit the political dimension of some of the humanitarian crisis to better inform our own advocacy in country. So the second one is more an active role which is to raise issues that we witness on the humanitarian crisis there that are affecting our humanitarian programings pertaining to problems we face in the country offices that couldn't be raised otherwise at national level. So we had a recent example of car I'm not gonna walk through the content of it because it's confidential but it was, we basically brought about some of the concerns we witnessed in the country and that we couldn't otherwise raise it at the national level. And we brought it here with the hopes that can be elevated at the global level and bring about some of the discussions and perhaps influence the discussions in country as well. And then third, since we're talking about conscious specific situations that is the Universal Periodic Review which is the UPR, which I'm not gonna go into the detail here, but is also an appear-to-peer review instrument from the Human Rights Council that reviews the situations in certain countries but reviewed by other countries within the Human Rights Council. So that's also another point we have been engaging to bring about some of the conscious specific situations. And then finally, we also have been engaging on statements for the special representative of the Secretary Andrew Otrinnaman Conflict. And that's, it's a way to bring visibility specifically to the violations of the rights of girls in conflict. So the reintegration of two economic conflicts and other issues and basically to react and raise issues that we find that on her report are not being addressed or praise some of the issues that she has addressed that relates to our priorities in country. So finally, which kind of conditions we figure out that really facilitated our humanitarian engagement with the Human Rights Council. So first of all, our mandate is anchored in a really strong right space and humanitarian approach. So we have the, what we call the nexus approach, which is both humanitarian development but also adding the layer of human rights within it. Then second, it's working coalitions with peer organizations like the Center for Reproductive Rights, which allows us for a complementarity for bringing really a diversity of angles and mitigate a bit of the issues in relation the sensitivities that we have on some of the humanitarian crisis of bringing some of those issues to global fore that can affect our operations. Then third, we had really working close connection with the counteroffice through specific discussions of concern. So this is to say that we are doing a liaison role, which is really being based on the work we do in counteroffice and the specific discussion that happens there. Then the fourth is being able really to provide this piece of advice. So to really help to frame, engage, develop specific advocacy materials with the language that is mostly effective to the engagement of the human rights council, policy briefs. And then the last one, which is also linked to this last one is to help colleagues really to utilize this networks of NGOs and permanent missions that we have in Geneva for maximizing the impact of our advocacy. And again, to mitigate some of the risks that is inherent in bringing really sensitive information that are commonly happening on humanitarian crisis across the globe that we work. So I think that's from my side, that's it. So I'm happy to take any of your questions and thank you very much. Thank you so much, Enzo. And as you were speaking actually, there are some ideas that came to my mind how we can get inspiration from your examples and better engage with the human rights council. So I hope the same effect was also for colleagues. And I would encourage all of you who are listening today to us to really take this opportunity and post the questions. At the meantime, I will go back to Paola and Enzo with the questions we received through the registration forms for this event. And we start the exchange panel. So I will just put the questions out there and I'll let you decide, Paola and Enzo, how you divide the questions if okay for you. So the first one is what is the impact of engagement with human rights council? Can you already share some examples if you have seen how the engagement with human rights council has yielded some concrete impact on your organization's work, on your policy, on your projects. So this was one question. The second one, how can we know what are the themes coming up through the human rights council resolution? So how can we know what are the relevant humanitarian topics that will be put forward at the human rights council agenda and how we can then better plan for our engagement? And the third question that we have is, how do you involve field colleagues in those initiatives? Do you consult with them? Do you get their inputs or what is the connection between field and global? And then maybe I will stop here at this moment and give the floor back to Paola and Enzo to share some insight on those. Thank you, over to you. I can start, Enzo, if you want. Okay, I'll take the easiest to the last two questions because the impact question I think is one that we still ask ourselves every day. So how to know about the themes coming up at the council? So on the extra net, I can share all of that after. Maybe it can be circulated on the listserv but on the extra net of the human rights council, you have the calendar of thematic resolutions and so it's organized, it's resolutions that come that are annual, bi-annual, tri-annual and according to which sessions they're usually discussed at. Of course, that doesn't take into account the changes that can happen. So for instance, the preventable metanormatality and morbidity resolution was meant to be discussed last September, it will be discussed this June but the center is part of the task team and so you can also put out that question whenever is needed. But the calendar is kind of a good resource to go to and then the program of work that is published ahead of each session, you see what are the topics that will be discussed, what are the special procedures that we'll be presenting at this session. So you kind of get kind of the agenda for that particular session. How do we involve field colleagues? So as I mentioned, we work very closely with our regional offices and with our partners. I think that manifests more clearly when we engage on country situations. So the center, like particularly engages on thematic resolution that is kind of our bread and butter but we have been lately engaging a bit more on certain country resolutions like South Sudan, for instance, at some point we also engaged on the resolution on Myanmar and that came as a request from our colleagues in the regions and so how we involve them is basically a kind of, we have joined work plans with them. So at the beginning of each of our fiscal year when we're doing the planning, we kind of discuss what issues they want to elevate, what country situations they want to elevate and we work together on making sure that that happens. So I share what I know with regard to the work of the council, what is coming up, why is engaging on a certain resolution would be impactful, for instance, to give a very concrete example of the resolution on South Sudan is being discussed currently at this session of the Human Rights Council and we got together with other CSOs to ask for a renewal of the commission on human rights in South Sudan. Why? Because it's one of, I think the only accountability mechanism that is council mandated that has documentation of sexual and gender-based violence in built in their mandates. So that was particularly important to us and so I've worked with my colleagues in our Nairobi office who worked with their partners in South Sudan and so that's kind of why it's, I kind of try and explain why it would be important for us to be in these conversations and they also, it's an exchange basically. In terms of the impact of our engagement, if we have seen a concrete impact, we have actually, I think that, I mean, measuring impact in terms of human rights is always very difficult. It's kind of something that takes a long time to see how much and how impactful it has been. It can be as difficult to measure as human rights council resolution being used at the national level. So I remember, for instance, being myself from Lebanon when I was working there and being a feminist activist in that particular context, we used to utilize the outcomes of the human rights council and its mechanisms for our internal advocacy at the national level. And we did that in addition to doing a million other things but that was kind of one of our tool in our advocacy toolbox to try and change laws, to try and change policies and practice. So that can be something that we have seen happen over and over again. Whenever there is a movement at the national level that is pushing for legislative changes, whatever comes from the UN is useful. I think that, and so has mentioned the special procedures, whenever a special reporter publishes a public statement on a specific issue, it kind of adds to the different avenues for advocacy that you already have as a woman in a national or local context. In terms of the impact it has had in our organization, I think that the whole thinking, for instance, at the center, not the whole, but because we are also part of the interagency working group on reproductive health and crisis, for instance, but it's when OHCHR really started talking about the creation of a circle of accountability in the context of maternal mortality in humanitarian situations that it really kind of shifted our thinking. So that was a direct impact that came from the resolution that mandated OHCHR with the report, and that report, that concept was laid out, and it got us to think differently around, all right, so accountability with regards to women and girls in humanitarian situations has focused so far overwhelmingly on sexual and gender-based violence and on accountability as criminal responsibility, international criminal law, putting the spotlight on perpetrators rather than putting the spotlight on women and girls themselves who beyond this GBV also suffer gross violations of human rights law in these settings. And how do we manifest that reality? And what does it mean in terms of shifting our understanding of accountability? And so I think that that is, for me, one of the most concrete examples that I can give and how it kind of inspired the rest of our work. Thank you so much, Paola. Very comprehensive answer over to you and the please. Yes, yes, I would compliment some of the points, but I think I'll be mostly focusing on the first question on the impact on the other one on the field and global. I think that those are essential questions on the work that we do and especially sitting Geneva, this is a question that we have been seldom asked and it's a seldom difficult question to respond because there is this issue about measuring impact and particularly on advocacy that sometimes is really five years time frame at least to have for you to witness impacts and really showcase and prove. I think that this long-term impact can be easily defined by the fact that for example, issues like child marriage wasn't even considered a human rights violation six years ago and now they are and even consensus about human rights crisis and this kind of things. So there is a really clear and added value of this global discussion and framing and really bringing about the evolving situations. I think that's another impact that I can see from at least plans engagement and it's about the spotlight. It's really about bringing some of the information that otherwise wouldn't be able to be public in some of the countries, for example and amplify impact of things that are happening already on the control level. And that has been raised, for example, on our submission to how we are working now on accountability for IDPs for the high-level panel. Within the interviews we have done that have been consistently raised as one of the added value of having a global space to discuss issues on the rights of IDPs, for example, and is essential for accountability. Another impact that we have witnessed is I think is also information. So I think a lot of the countries, they have in-country capacity to do advocacy and they are always welcome to receive information and analysis on how the country they are working with, they have been addressing certain issues at the global level that they can use and really pressure them at the country level. So it's this kind of information which leads to the second point also is that it gives a basis for advocacy at country level. It's, we have witnessed several times that some of our countries like Columbia, for example, brings about some of the discussions and they incorporate that to their messages into their narrative and particularly that with UPR, for example, that they incorporate that it is like an accountability mechanism and they can use that and also use the country visit, for example, from some of the fact-finding missions to really raise some of the intrinsic dynamics of some of the conflicts. And then finally, I think that one of the biggest impacts and that's a subjective one is that quite a lot of our country colleagues has said that they feel that the issues have been heard because, for example, in the example of the Central African Republic, I told you, it's kind of a forgotten crisis and like globally speaking, even the humanitarian side, the funding has been decreasing, the spotlights on the humanitarian side has been really complicated to bring about and being able for letting some of the colleagues to bring about some of those issues to a higher forum that otherwise they couldn't raise at their national level really help them to feel that their issues have been addressed and they have kind of some avenues to maneuver. And of course, it all depends on the capacity of the country as well to engage and the capacity of the country to follow up and to bring that to the attention that's speaking about the current specific issues. So on the food and global, I think I've spoken a bit about that. I think that one of the factors of this relationship is to amplify really complicated information on the country level, really complicated issues that you can amplify using the global level and that's the human rights council is really effective to bring, specifically on a confidential way if you don't want to be mentioned or in a coalition, for example. Yeah, amplify local advocacy. And I think that's from global to local if I might say, we have also witnessed that this also brings back to the country kind of a stronger stance and a stronger fundament to their own advocacy. And that's not only of the human rights council but also other global processes like the global compacting refugees and others. We've witnessed that having this global perspective of what's the narrative and what's the line that the discussions that have been drawing the global level helps them to really incorporate and be more impactful on the local level. So I think that's some of the kind of relationships. Thank you so much for those very, very concrete examples to both of you. Again, a lot of ideas coming in. I'm just wondering if our colleagues from OHCHR who are online would like to add just very briefly some elements on the upcoming 2022 substantive resolutions and the involvement and give you the space if you would like, otherwise you can put it in the chat box as well. And I don't see you coming in. So I will proceed with the second round of comments complimenting from the registration form and also from Ivona, thank you so much for putting it in the chat box. So the first question, and again, I let you divide between you and respond as you have seen in the chat. Have there been discussions how the states actually define the humanitarian situation around the negotiation? So this is the first aspect. And the second question, humanitarian situations imply sometimes that the state powers may be disputed at national level with the involvement of non-state actors. So do you think that there is room for the resolution to recognize the accountability of non-state armed groups? Very good question. And I would add to this a third question that came. Do you have any lessons learned from your engagement with the Human Rights Council? Noting that it is quite recent as you explained last few years, but is there already some kind of lessons learned that you have started to see it that would also serve to other colleagues on the call further? So over to you. Thank you very much for these questions. So the first one around have states defined what humanitarian situations mean? Yes, I'm just gonna copy paste that para in the chat box so you have it that comes straight from the resolution. So the first time that it was discussed it was when we were discussing the resolution on child early and forced marriage in humanitarian situations. And at the time they had defined in its resolution 35, so C16, they had defined humanitarian settings as humanitarian emergency forces for displacement on conflicts, natural disasters. And then the sudden onset natural disasters and slow onset events was added in the resolution on accountability. And I think that was one of them, the very necessary addition. And this is why it was crucial to have a country like Fiji on the core group because there were the ones who really elevated this issue. So for the purpose of this resolution and the subsequent substantive resolutions that will come out, this is the definition of humanitarian situations. And in terms of the responsibility and accountability for violations perpetrated by non-armed groups, absolutely. And this is why it was also important to write up the bat really highlight the relationship between humanitarian law and human rights law because these questions are gonna come in. The center is preparing a technical paper on the interlinkages between international humanitarian law, human rights law and refugee law and it should be published in the next month or so and I will share the publication once it's out where we have looked at also, we also have looked at non-state actors. And as we know, it's kind of an ongoing debate in the field with really kind of led consultations to make sure that we get it right because it's not nothing is kind of set in stone but I think that it will be absolutely necessary that accountability for non-state actors and armed group but also, I'm also thinking about donors for instance, I'm also thinking about like a wide range of non-state actors who can perpetrate violations but also have a role to play in terms of accountability outside of perpetrating violations I mean as well. So I think that it would also be important to look at all the different stakeholders and the last question around lessons learned, I mean, one I think one that directly comes to mind for me is work at the Human Rights Council timing is everything. You know, we kind of really banked on the momentum that was existing around humanitarian situations at the council. It didn't come from nowhere. We kind of took an incremental approach but I have to say that the membership changes and so you can also find yourself where the council that might not be very favorable to bringing new initiatives, to bringing new initiatives on women. So I think that the first thing that I would say really is like timing and preparation are everything. Another lesson that I've learned is, you know, like expect the unexpected. We really struggled with seeing how the notion of accountability, which is kind of one of the major human rights principle, undermining, underpinning the whole human rights architecture became subject to debate when we were talking about this resolution. And we understood kind of the resistance from some states who thought that there would be a crude scrutiny over host countries, for example. So, you know, that was the argument that host countries are doing what they can. And now with this initiative, you want to add on scrutiny over what it is that we do and it's just us and what about other states. And so it created, even though these states themselves might sponsor or lead on other resolutions that literally have accountability in the title. And so that was, you know, we also needed to be prepared for these conversations, even though there were some somewhat unexpected. So I guess that would be preparation timing. And when we say preparation, it really is being prepared even for things that you didn't even factor in. Thank you, Paula, very well noted. Over to you, Enzo. Yes, I'm not going to elaborate much more what Paula has mentioned as she's kind of the, she's really the expert on this resolution. I think that, oh, sorry. I think I lost you. Yeah, you're right. So we're just saying that I'm going to elaborate too much on the questions because Paula is really the expert on this specific resolution. I would just like to also call attention to one of the things which are witnessed on the informal negotiation of this resolution is the backlash and how this was framed, really. I think that was true size, one that some of the states were really putting forward the field that having refugees, particularly in IDPs were kind of, they were already being really doing, was like kind of a really generous act, which yeah, I mean, it is, but also is also international obligation. And they also have an international obligation of respecting the human rights of this population. So it's kind of this really perspective that's not of those subjects as the rights holders, but really like kind of a population that happens to be there and that they're doing an effort. So it's really this need to strike the balance also between the accountability and the kind of support for accountability. Yeah, so this kind of dichotomy as well. But also, the kind of regular backlashes on what happens on women's rights as well, you know, about perspectives around all the independence of women and all the backlash against sector that they have rights empowerment. So taking this aside, of course, which is really a classic reaction from those kind of states. On the lessons learned, I will also compliment what Paul was saying that I think that one of the lessons learned in our case is that really having a staff or a colleague which was able to really advise and have access to networks and opportunities and helped also colleagues to navigate on the different channels, opportunities, and sometimes also bureaucracy about engaging on some of the human rights council processes really helped. And this also leads to another point which is kind of it requires thinking a bit outside of the box because my role is also eminently humanitarian, but it has this humanitarian components being built in it because it is an understanding that you can't have a really a full picture of humanitarian situations if you also don't integrate a rights-based approach. And that also led to really finding some solutions that are outside and under explored by really traditional humanitarian NGOs or action. Also talking about perspective from also working on other really humanitarian NGOs. And then I think that the last one, it's really about partnership of the country offices. I think that this is on the core of it. It's not to, it's really to explain as any good partnership, you really explain, you really build together with the country, the priorities, building within the country, the level of engagement, the kind of time, not only on the time that you spend on those kind of processes, but also on the added value because it's not clear. And given the power dynamic that Southern makes this between global and national, sometimes country offices feel compelled to engage because it's the global level that is asking. So reshaping this kind of relationship and making sure that this is equal that the country offices are present from the planning to the follow-up. It was really, really key to bring this kind of successful engagement on the human rights council. Yeah. Thank you so much, Enzo. And actually you somehow summarized also the objectives and goal of the human rights engagement task team really, that the fact that we cannot have the full picture in the humanitarian settings if we don't have the human rights angle and that we need to have it driven from the country, from the field going up to global. This is really at the core of what we are trying to achieve. Very good. Thank you so much, Paola and Enzo. I think we have no further comments from participants coming in. So I believe we are coming to the close of this event. I know that some colleagues they have been reaching through different means, WhatsApp, et cetera, would be interested to engage further in the 2022 substantive resolution. So Paola, maybe if you can also share the contact with colleagues who may not have it also. Enzo, if colleagues, if it's okay for you, would like to reach out bilaterally, but otherwise we invite you to also, if you are interested and curious about the work of the human rights engagement testing to reach out to Isaiah and myself and we would be happy to discuss with you how to take this forward and eventually how to support you in your country operation as needed through this process. So again, I would like to thank first of all our panelists, Paola and Enzo for sharing your practices, your experience, a lot of inspiring examples for us that we will need to digest process and maybe get inspired also for us going forward. And also colleagues to all of you joining us from all regions and mainly from the field as we could see, which is fantastic and stay tuned for our next webinar in April, which you will receive an invitation for very soon. So thank you everybody and have a great rest of the day. Bye. Thank you.


Over the course of the Christmas weekend between December 24th and December 27th, 2020, a total of 314 COVID-19 tests were conducted by the Azure Long Laboratory. From these, the Ministry of Health received confirmation of 26 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases diagnosed in country to date to 331. On Friday, December 25th, 2020, 13 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed. Four of the cases were non-nationals who range in age from five months to 52 years. The other nine cases recorded on that day were St. Lucia Nationals from the Viewfort, Castries, Dennery, Miko, and Choiselle districts, ranging in age from 21 years to 61 years. On Monday, December 28th, 2020, confirmation of an additional 13 COVID-19 cases were received. Eleven were non-nationals ranging in age from five years to 46 years. The other two cases were nationals from the Babanot district, ranging in age from 38 years to 41 years. Eight of the 26 cases were contacts of previous cases and had been tested and placed in quarantine, pending their results. Arrangements have been made for the isolation of all of the newly diagnosed cases. None of those cases require critical care at this point. The Ministry of Health has recorded a total of 274 recoveries to date, with 57 active cases presently in country. The public is reminded of the importance of practicing the infection prevention and control measures to minimize the COVID-19 infections, that is, wash your hands often during the day.  Also maintain a distance of six feet from others. Avoid contact with other people who have flu-like symptoms. If you are experiencing flu-like symptoms, keep away from others and seek medical care at the closest respiratory clinic. The Ministry of Health and Wellness will continue providing updates as new information becomes available.


Hello and welcome to the third of a series of screencasts on LaTeX, the scientific document typesetting system. In this video, we're going to expand on the simple hello world document you made in typeset in the second video to add some mathematics. We're going to learn about how to typeset mathematics inline or alongside text, how to typeset math displayed or set off from text, how to typeset exponents and subscripts, how to use curly braces for larger arguments and exponents and subscripts, and then do a simple case study where we typeset the statement of the Pythagorean theorem. So here's the hello world document we made in the last video. Let's add on a separate line a very simple equation, 3x plus 2 equals 7. We'll actually set this up with some text. I'd like to put the equation alongside my text here, which we call inline math. To change from text entry to inline mathematics entry, we type a dollar sign, then the equation we want, then close the dollar sign. The dollar signs mark the beginning and end of inline math entries. Now typeset it and we see that the math comes up and it is visibly different than the text around it. Another way to enter in math is in displayed mode in which the math will be on its own separate line and centered. Let's set up a new equation. Then we're going to type two dollar signs with no space in between. Then our math, then close the dollar signs. And for effect, let's enter in some more text underneath. When I compile, I see that the new equation has been put on its own line and centered, setting it off from the text around it. Let's suppose we wanted to add squares to all three of the variables above. To add an exponent, just use the up arrow key, which is shift and then six, then compile. And we see that the exponent has been added. That also works in inline mode. For a subscript, for example, if I wanted to add a sub i to the variable in the first equation, use the underscore character, then i, then compile. We can even add both superscripts and subscripts to the same variables. If I were to use a larger exponent, say, to the tenth power and compile, notice that the one is exponentiated but not the zero. So to use exponents or subscripts that involve arguments larger than one digit or character, just encase the argument and curly braces as if it were a latex command, and then compile. Let's end by type setting the Pythagorean theorem, which has a nice mix of text, plane math, and exponents, and displayed math. First, I'll type out the start of the theorem. Notice that I am blending math and text together inline here. Now I'll type out the conclusion of the theorem in displayed mode, since it's important and needs to stand out. Once I'm done, I compile and there's our Pythagorean theorem. That's it for now. In the next video, we'll look at some more mathematical commands for latex such as roots, fractions, and Greek letters. See you there.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel for today's video I am going to be sharing with you my top five pink eyeshadow palettes So if you want to see what they are then just keep watching Hey guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a product knowledge enthusiast I just love knowing anything and everything about all the new makeup on the market and sharing my thoughts with you guys Because of that I have accumulated quite a lot of eyeshadow palettes So I started this new rainbow series where I share my top five of every Colored eyeshadow so so far. We're pretty early into the series So I only have my top five purple eyeshadow palettes So now we are moving on to pink now what qualifies as a pink eyeshadow palette for me Is that at least like 80% of the shadows are pink and the rest are Complementary tones of pink. I think when I did the purple one I was a little bit too strict and basically I was like every shadow has to be purple for it to be included in here I was a little bit more relaxed and this was a lot easier than I thought it was gonna be because I was like I don't really wear pink eye shadows very often, but that is a total lie I wear pink eye shadows all the time and you know what counts as pink eye shadows Rose tone shadows. Do you know what I love rose tone shadows? Do you know what I have a lot of rose tone shadows? So this was really easy, so Let's get into the first palette. These are not in any particular order They're just alphabetical by the brand because that makes the most sense to me We're gonna get into the first one which is the one that I'm currently wearing This is the brightest palette of today's video. You'll see the rest are a little bit more wearable But this one's the right one if you want hot pinks and you want to save some money get great value Great price. You need to try the BH cosmetics mimosa palette. This is so awesome Now if you're new to my channel, I have a real taste for expensive luxury eyeshadow formulas I feel like I can really tell the difference, but BH cosmetics really does not come to play They have in my opinion the best formulation for the best price I'm like fooled. These are definitely high-end quality shadows and you can get them on sale for dirt cheap Anyways, we have the mimosa palette. So in this palette, there are 16 shades as you can see not every shade here is pink. We have some complimentary orange tones a yellow tone a Slightly slightly lilac tone, but you couldn't run away from the fact that this is a pink palette today I played mostly with the pink eyeshadows I have let's see bottomless guava pomegranate chilled and Fizzy to create this look. I did film it for a reel so it should be up on my Instagram very soon Well, yeah, if you're looking for really great hot pink eyeshadows that aren't hard to work with that aren't Hard to blend because I find a lot of times with hot pink shadows if you want the pigment They're gonna be hard to blend These are great quality if you're looking for that for a good price I definitely recommend this this shimmers in here are also really really stunning. There's some pretty complimentary tones But again going back to what my favorite part about this palette is is you get very vibrant pink tones That aren't hard to work with very easy to work with I really don't know how BH does it at this price point The only flaw I would say about this palette is that multiple shades look very close to each other They kind of blend to be one color So you're not gonna get a lot of variation in the tones here if you're playing with the pink tones They're all gonna show up as a hot pink on the eyelid But if that's the look that you're going for this is really fantastic and for the price I'm not gonna knock it really great palette one of the best pink palettes I have in my collection and I wanted to share that with you guys Moving on to the second palette this one is definitely the most wearable of today's video But I love it. It's so pretty the tones are so soft very romantic Would be great if you're going for more of a pinky look for a wedding and best part it's quite affordable This is probably the last affordable option that I have so brace your wallets But this is the Colourpop blush crush palette. This is a 9 p.m. Palette all of these are blushy tones and I mean blush is pink So I'm putting it in this video this one is so pretty It's a good formula from Colourpop, and it's very wearable So maybe if you're thinking of how can you incorporate pink tones in your collection without feeling like This like how I look I think that this one is a great one to start off with you guys Pink tones are so beautiful and soft on the eyelids. They look more natural than you would think especially when you pair them With a corresponding pink blush. I'd almost use this shade as a blush I think you guys would really like this if you're looking for a blushy toned palette This one is one of my favorites and one of the most wearable from Colourpop It's definitely one of the more popular ones. I believe you can get this one at Ulta still super nice Love it. All right. I could not not put this palette in today's video This is the Charlotte Tilbury instant eye palette in the shade pillow talk So it's based around Charlotte Tilbury's famous pillow talk shade Which is a light wearable rosy pink kind of color. So as you can see not every shade here is pink pink pink We have a little bit of pinky peaches. So we have a little bit of like raspberry pinks We have some browns, which we're gonna pretend that's not here anyways I love this for a great wearable rosy look. You can even go a little bit more intense This was the palette that I actually wore for my wedding day when I got married I was looking for a bridal pinky kind of look and I went with this guy I actually went a little bit more pink than normal, but I Me, you know, but anyways, I love the quality in here. I find that with these 12 pan palettes from Charlotte Tilbury They tend to have a lot better quality. Okay, maybe not a lot I'm exaggerating but I feel like the quality in here is as good as the highest level of quality in the Charlotte Tilbury quads for some reason she just does a great job with the formulas here and I love love love these Rosy tones. So if you like that kind of eye, you like the Charlotte Tilbury style look You will really enjoy this one. I highly recommend it. One of my favorites. Now when I first bought it I wasn't moved by it. I thought it was nice, whatever whatever as time has gone on I've really learned it to appreciate those rosy pinky tones. So this is just creep creep creep creep creep Creeped up to become one of my top five pink palettes. Okay, our next palette I wasn't sure if this qualified as a pink palette But it totally does in my eyes and I absolutely love the Natasha Denona love palette now this one I'm not gonna lie. It's not her best formulation But I just really love playing with the tones in here and the quality is still very very nice But it's it's not the best.  However, I still love this I still think it's good quality and I really like the color Combinations in this one which has led this to actually become one of my most used Natasha Denona palettes Believe it or not I don't want to say I use it all the time because that would be impossible for me But I use it a lot compared to my other Natasha Denona palettes So the bottom row is really what screams pink here and then you have some corresponding tones You of course have a couple of purples whatever whatever it is a pink palette in my eyes And I love it it came out for Valentine's Day a couple of years ago And because I love pinks and purples so much this has quickly become one of my favorite palettes one of my most used So I still recommend it I still think it's a great value for Natasha Denona and I've had a lot of fun with the looks that I could create I find myself constantly creating a look with a pink crease and one of the purples all over the lid It just always turns out that way with this palette for some reason, but you can get some really pretty truly Pink romantic kind of looks with this guy definitely recommend it It's a palette that you kind of either love it or hate it and I love it Okay, I seem to have been talking a lot about this palette recently It just has become so relevant in all of the recent video ideas that I've had But I cannot deny it's in this video the pomegranate divine rose to palette Obviously is one of my favorite pink palettes. Let's start off with the packaging here I did get the limited edition chrome pink packaging and again This is like not truly a hundred percent pink, but the tones that are in here are made to complement pink So we are gonna count it as a pink palette I mean, I don't want to talk about this too much because I featured this so much in my channel in general featured it so much Recently I've been wearing it a lot. It's my most used Pat McGrath palette at this current moment We know Pat McGrath has a lot of pink palettes I knew I wanted to put one Pat McGrath palette in and it was definitely this one no-brainer I thought of it right away, but then I was looking up through my palettes Dang Pat McGrath has a lot of rose toned pinky palettes So she puts out a lot, but this one is definitely my favorite I really like the divine rose one, but that one is a little bit more subdued I find myself having a lot more fun with the divine rose too So I wanted to put that in this video. You have a lot of different fun textures finishes Really great pigmented deep mattes. I mean, I don't know. Are you a Pat McGrath fan? I'm assuming you are you're on my channel So I don't feel they need to explain myself any further with that one and just like that We've hit the top five while I hate videos being so short I also really want to keep it very intense for me and keeping it only at five So I did have to put in an honorable mention because I couldn't help myself Now this one I'm not even sure if it qualifies as a pink You let me know what you think But I've already done purple and I've already done pink and this kind of bridges between a purple and pink palette And I just wanted to mention that it's one of my favorite palettes within the purple pink category So that's why we're doing an honorable mention and that is the hood of beauty new nude palette Remember when this came out and we were like this is not nude like it's definitely not nude and I remember thinking it's like a pink palette So I'm considering it to be a pink palette But obviously you have some warmer tones some purple tones But I just wanted to talk about it because it's a gorgeous palette So we're putting it with the pinks today very soft Romantic looks that you can get with it kind of leaning a little bit more met past now And one of my favorite parts of hood of beauty are the textures that she adds just the variety you have a press glitter You have a couple textures Metallics you have shimmer you have mattes and I really like this one. I really like the formula I really love the color story. So I really like that one Okay, there we have it you guys Those are my top five pink shadows plus an honorable mention If you have any pink eyeshadow palettes that you love and would like to recommend to others Please put it down in the comment section, and I hope you guys enjoyed this video Let me know what color you would like to see next if you guys aren't subscribed to my channel already I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so and I will see you all in the next one Bye guys. Have a good one


ould be here at the 27th? Yeah All right, so because you also had given me this list of conditions which are conditions But it's more just was there something that is like oh we they need to well, I noticed One or two things there's a pad and a light shown at the rear of the building where the office is located There's no door there, and I wondered if they if they could clarify whether there's actually what page are you going through? I'm going a page three at the bottom of the page great the lighting plan. Yeah under issues to consider Is there an exit there or not and why do you need a sconce light and a pad if there's no exit? So that was one of the things Then I think I Photometric plan they gave us Information about lighting, but they didn't really give us a photometric plan. So that would be helpful if they could do that It could to confirm that the sign is not illuminated to I guess Submission of sample leases for commercial and office uses and for residential use So there were conditions on page five that I had suggested that they brought over from the Special permit and there may be some discussion about whether these are reasonable or not But one of them was that the office building shall continue to be occupied only for business and professional offices as described in Section 3.358 and 3.359 of the zoning bylaw Unless a special permit or additional site plan review approval is received for those other uses That seems reasonable the businesses shall not be conducted after 9 p.m. That sort of keeps noise level down in the neighborhood Exterior lighting shall be downcast and not shine on to adjacent streets or properties The building and site shall be managed in accordance with the management plan approved on x-date And they once again those and those conditions would effectively extinguish the previous permits Yes, you don't you could extinguish the previous permits and include those conditions in your site plan review and that would be fine and then the construction logistics plan and And then you need to make a finding that this That the two buildings are clearly complementary to each other. That's something that you need to do Then I can go through my notes Could I take a second to ask a question? Have these 20-foot setbacks would that give people space to barbecue and put some chairs or does the slope prevent that or Just in terms like space on the, you know place for people to hang out Well, Bill, I think the slope that the finished slope here you see the dotted lines With the starting in 198. That's the existing slope So you can see that the finished slope is going to pretty much mirror that Mainly up in that corner and gets a little steeper down toward the front where the storm water is Plus, there's about 2,000 square feet on the north end of the parking lot around that big tree and stuff And they'll have that privacy fence along that north border Plenty of them near to and this grass there flat So you probably want to have a condition about the clearing of the shrubbery at the entry drive Can I talk about their rear exit and get that cleared up? I think I mentioned it this morning that is note. It's not required. We are under the understand here and just Figured we needed a rear door on that office building But the code does not require it and the building inspector said really if you put a door there Where's it going to go? You know, so you might need a sidewalk and that type of thing. So I mean that building is only 25 feet wide So that door has been eliminated and it's now a window. So eliminate that pad that pad is yeah And there's a light that was referenced outside there too, and that won't be there And I guess maybe to further my argument Hopefully you can see the type of things we're talking about aren't necessarily that heavy of a lift So if we're able to come back on the 27th and be towards the beginning I think we'll have all of these things straightened out well ahead of time. I Hear you I'm trying Yes, so you could do the you could do this Main Street project first and then do the Mr. McCheese plan and then the tree hearing after that because I haven't advertised the tree hearing yet So the only one that's really been definitively scheduled was McCheese continuation, right The only thing I'll just ask the board is do you feel it's important if they have the tree settled Which it isn't even fully settled at that point because it goes to the town manager, but Do you have any preference? Yeah I seems to me that that the tree issue ought to be settled before we Way in on the on the site plan review Because if the tree has to stay The building has to be either totally redesigned or abandoned or something it seems to me And if the it if the tree is allowed to be taken down We won't know that until the town manager makes a decision sometime after the tree warden and we have a hearing That correct I Think they're really I think you can separate them you could grant site plan review and Conditional on the trees being allowed to be taken down by the town Not allowed to be taken down by the tree warden the planning board and the town manager I don't think that that needs to hold you up from doing what you need to do with site plan review Because no matter what way we decide about the tree we won't know Is there a time period before the town manager has to weigh in or? He said he would try to attend that the hearing and so he would hear the testimony and then he feels that he would be able to make a decision Very soon after that. I was gonna say the amount of fill Proposed in that area would Yeah, it would have to be They wouldn't be able to just like cut out the building and have a spot for it It would So you're still proposing that we do this and then The site plan review and and then do the tree hearing And started six Thank you very much We did Asked I don't know. We might I because I did ask does that one have a time I Said is it do you have to have a time and you said yes? We might have to go back to Amherst media How well then we could create times now and if we go look at the video and if we did say a time we can readjust Do you think a half an hour is enough? Okay Yeah Well, don't we think seven and seven oh five and seven ten like we had it tonight. Isn't that satisfactory? No, that's the 18. Oh That'd be worse than We need a motion I move to continue the hearing until What was the date? August 27th Seven seven o'clock seven oh five seven oh five Seven okay So it's seven seven oh five and seven ten, okay. I'll second Any discussion? And you're good with this. Yeah, I mean I frankly we would prefer six, but if the board can't make it just because We waited here tonight And so we know what it's like when you get here at 715 and then wait till that time So if folks are here at seven oh five for the tree hearing which won't actually start until 745 if we take 45 minutes and then Amir's things starts after that you might have people starting at 715 in here until You know nine o'clock before their hearings even I feel comfortable that you start ours at six o'clock We'll be done before that seven oh five tree hearing and then everything there is a mirror related if you will I know Janet and I were okay with six Chris part a lot of this leans on you So how do you three feel about six I prefer I prefer seven What about 630 I feel like I'm If everybody else prefers six, how come I say we get done earlier All right, David any feeling I Know you were a maybe but you know, I didn't know All right is a democratic thing I think we're gonna go with six o'clock. Thank you Michael Okay, second, and so that's what we're going with all in favor say aye Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Is that your summer? Yeah, thank you and Happy birthday So I say we just hold at this point and we Move to adjourn you want to move to adjourn. Yes.  We're adjourning Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your patience We have an a and r. Oh We have to do okay, but I think it'll be a race. That's right. So we're in hold right now We're ready to vote. So Chris. Is there anything we have to do tonight? Okay, so this is on where is this Bay Road? I think you've seen this one before but we've seen it in a different format It's Jeff Jeffrey Brown who's an attorney in town and his son have been Making plans for their property. So I'm going to pass along a Plan that shows what the property is like now, and then I will come around with the plan to show what they're going to be doing Okay, thank you Leaving this piece There is a house Frontage There's adequate frontage for this You're not Okay, but then this becomes a buildable lot What do they want to connect to this one what used to they want to connect to this this these are two separate pieces Okay, I should so they're connected this to this Okay And he wants to He'd have to restrain this out and then get this done as a flag lot and this is also he'd have double flag Yeah, yeah, you will see this again actually because Today's plan okay I'm sorry just we just


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Hi, everyone. Happy Thursday. Joe for jaspyscasewrakes.com coming at you with 2020 Panini gold standard football six box half case picker team number 12 second half of the case Right here. You can see that we have this marked 12 right here. So we know it's from the same case Big thanks to all of these lovely people here for getting into the action on 8 2020 Josh with that quadruple last spot mojo. Thanks everyone for getting in bunch of number block spots Right here. There you go. The video for this is in a separate video So if you're looking for the randomizer video, it'll be a different video right there, but there it is. Those are the results So just like our number block breaks, but only for these teams only for picker team 12 set that aside Over there if they're I don't think there is but if there's any non numbered cards will randomize them as one lot To one person on that list. I don't think they're gonna do that. I think everything's numbered in gold standard All right, and here we go. Good luck We got some hoops on in the background okc Playing Houston Houston up 87 80 with eight minutes left in the fourth Rocks with a 10-0 run in the last three and a half minutes A lot of playoff basketball happening today on Thursday the 20th a couple more games coming up tonight NBA draft lottery is tonight. So that should be exciting So we'll use that blank card to slow play the hits a little bit. There's Lou Keekley 75 That'll be for the Panthers are a number block team. So that'll go to Panthers seven. That'll be for Josh Josh E Xavier McKinney 52 out of 99 for the Giants Giants are a number block team Giants to Raphael We got DJ shark gold gear 58 out of one a 99 Jacksonville was picked up straight up by Brian. I do have financial interest in Okc to win outright And who else do I have? Basketball wise I won Miami minus four I've got Orlando plus 12 and a half Although I think Milwaukee is gonna win and I also have Portland plus six and a half But I think the Lakers are gonna win What's my big baseball play of the day? Pirates and the Cardinals Pirates have to win a game at some point, right? We've got Lamar Jackson Marquise Brown 28 out of 199 Aaron with the Ravens And we saw we have some points there That'll be randomized as one lot to one person in the group. Hopefully there won't be too many more points after this 250 we'll set that aside there And if it's a number block if the team is a number block then we'll randomize the number block names and the name on top We'll get the points There's Patrick Queen to 199 153 out of 199 for Aaron and the Ravens and there's cam acres two-color dual relic 54 out of 99 you'd only take the buckos with muskrow about I know I don't know why he and now it's just a matter of It's a matter of just stubbornness, but they're plus. I had I got him at plus 211. So I'm like Today's the day. It's a huge number. Today's the day I don't think I'll I for whatever reason I'll bet the angels when I'll bet the angels when Vegas like books them correctly But I've turned a pretty tidy profit betting against the angels all season long At least when it when when there's value, you know when I crunch my numbers, but but they I don't know I don't know why the books are not not pricing the angels games, right? Either they're they're two huge favorites Or they're you know, they like they over favorite them sometimes There's cam acres for the Rams Rams six is gonna be Ben Johnson There's Anthony Jennings 31 out of 99 for the Patriots past one is Josh s We got gold rush Mike Allstock piece of his jersey 78 out of 199 different buckos This is Tampa Bay. That will be a number block team Yeah, Bucks eight is gonna be Eight right there kind of hard to see in the reflection, but Bucks eight is Josh eat Carson Wentz gold gear 26 out of 49 Eagles are also a number block team. That's Eagles six Ben Derwin James jr. Nice good as gold jersey and autograph 122 out of 199 chargers Josh Eve picked up the chargers straight up Not sure Tyler Check on I'm sure there's a bunch on eBay check check sold items on a secondary market that might be able to tell you. I Don't know offhand though Devon do remain to 199 29 out of 199 and that will be for Aaron and the Ravens and we've got jersey and autograph Tyler Johnson 27 out of 99 jersey and autograph for the Buccaneers 27 out of 99 Josh E with number seven by the base card out here 15 out of 75 Melvin Gordon Broncos edition going to Kevin. We've got Derek Henry for the Titans 69 nice out of 99 Josh E with number nine. We've gotten motherlode Five-way relic right here five-piece relic Terry McLauren 60 out of 199 Redskins are a number block team. So that's Tice With zero Washington zero Hall of gold Dan the man Marino That's 10 out of 199 for the Dolphins picked up straight up by Josh We got gold strike autographed Gino Atkins 96 out of 99 for the Bengals Josh with the Bengals. There's Noah I've been on when they hey he nailed it. That's 76 out of 199 for the Dolphins. That's for Josh Sean he's asking how much it's worth not what it's numbered to Jersey and autograph 44 out of 99 Antonio Gibson For the Washington football team 44 out of 99 that goes to Josh and the number four Three boxes to go Break number 12. I don't think I don't think I saw any more gold standard ladies and gentlemen. So But keep your eye out for more Jasper's case race.com. There's Josiah to go there. Guara 75 26 out of 75 for the Packers Trey with the go pack. Oh, do I think the NFL will play a full season? Yes, I do There's AJ Dylan 46 out of 99 Trey again with the Packers Terrell Davis 173 out of 199 Broncos Jersey Let me for Kevin although confirmed I wouldn't be surprised if a team or two had to forfeit or cancel a game I think that's just gonna be the way it is, but I think Roger Goodell is just gonna Come hell or high water is just gonna grind through. I don't think there's gonna be fans in the stands though 52 out of 199 Titans two is gonna be for Raphael. I Really think they should explore the bubble idea that seems to be working for the NHL and for Bask for the NBA, but there's Denzel Mims 159 out of 225 Giants nine is gonna be Josh Golden age Jim Kelly autograph Wow nice six out of ten for the bills Trey With the bills Buffalo Nice, what a tough dude battling cancer back multiple times Still fighting still battling and the last one here is Deandre Swift two-color patch and autograph 19 out of 49 for the Lions Lions picked up straight up by Kevin Smith Only his nephew could be successful. Who's nephew? Oh Only if his oh, oh, I see what you're saying Right. I had Does it Chad Kelly? I think is his nephew With the Broncos, but maybe he got I think he got in some legal trouble. Hey, I'm with you confirm He should good else should be concerned about player safety and player health But as we've seen with concussions and as we've seen with other things it's clear that NFL doesn't care about that So I don't think player safety is really on top of the list There's 19 out of 25 Brian Ehrlacher for the Bears Bears nine Josh. So I think they're just gonna I think they're just gonna roll with it Too much money in the NFL Anthony Jennings 33 out of 99 Patriots Patriots three is gonna be for Josh Tevin Coleman gold rush relic 65 out of 199 Josh with the Niners. Oh Josh Chad Kelly gets in trouble all the time See, I don't think his heart's in football.  And Chase Claypool 132 out of 240. It's all like my speculation Steelers Josh with the Steelers one of his last spot mojo teams We got another dual relic Joe Burrow and T Higgins. Could this be a a Big combo going forward That'll be for the Bengals Josh with the Bengals and we got Josh high tower the fourth To 199 21 out of 199 for the fly Eagles fly Eagles one Josh s and then we got more Eagles Jalen Hertz 80 out of 99 that goes to Tice pop with number zero Won that spot in A pack break a little filler break got randomized zero and ends up with the Jalen Hertz One more box to go. Good luck everybody. All right. There's my guy right there Josh Jacobs 42 out of 75 Josh with my Raiders No sophomore slump Josh Jacobs. Come on and there's another Josh Josh Uchi One out of 99 Pats Patriots one is gonna be for Josh s Josh with Josh Jacobi brisette for the blue horseshoe. That's a nice relic there four out of 49 colts four is Gonna be Josh E a couple different Josh's hitting here back-to-back-to-back gold rush Relic Derek Henry 199 out of 199 the last one ever made Titans nine is gonna be Josh E Jalen Rhaegor to 12 out of 225 Eagles two is gonna be for Raphael a couple more to go. We've got Jared Pinkney For the Falcons Ben got the Falcons straight up. That's to 199 double oh four out of 199 and the last one here It's Joe burrow Jersey and auto is the last one 38 out of 99 Joey B Going to Josh E who got the bangles straight up. There you go. Yes. That will Paul Abdul song, right? Straight up now. Tell me do you really want to love me forever? Oh, oh, oh Or am I caught in a hit and run? Gotta give the points away. We're gonna randomize teams because of the number blocks there Let's roll it. Let's randomize it nine times six and a three team on top after nine one two three And ninth and final time after nine time now if the team on top is a number block team Then I'll use the same dice roll and then randomize the number block names Congrats to the Titans Titans are a number block team So now let's open a new list use the same dice roll of nine grab the names here and Then we'll go nine times on the list of ten one Two eight and nine five time name on top Josh He had the odds he gets the 250 points and that Joey B. Nice. Thanks everybody for watching I'm Joe for jazzy's case breaks calm. We'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye