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Have your say on the Future of the Human Rights Consortium Cymru

Introduction

The Human Rights Consortium Cymru was launched in April 2025. The project is hosted by WCVA and funded by LEF.

Our current priority outcomes include:

- Coordinate and collaborate to ensure the voluntary sector and wider civil society's voice is heard in Human Rights law, policy and issues at a Welsh and UK level.

- The Sector is in a stronger position to inform law and policy relating to human rights through capacity development with organisations working on human rights and individuals with lived experience.

- Decision-makers are held to account to exercise the powers in the interest of communities and upholding rights.

- Improved human rights protections – Protecting existing rights (preventing regression); Building the evidence-base / case for incorporation, legislation, and policy; progressing human rights through policy approaches; and engaging with officials and politicians.

- The sector’s needs, challenges, and priorities are clearly understood and used to inform the design and direction of the Human Rights Consortium Cymru.

We want to hear from you on:

- How important are human rights to you?

- What are your human rights priorities?

- What should the Human Rights Consortium do?

- How could the Human Rights Consortium Cymru help and support your organisation?

- How should the Human Rights Consortium Cymru involve you?

All responses to this survey are anonymous.

If you include contact details these will only be used to contact you and involve you in the ways and types of activities you have said you are interested in. This section will be separated from the rest of the survey to retain anonymity of other sections. The information in the survey will be collated with other responses, engagement events, one-to-one meetings, and other comments received to shape the future priorities, structure, and work of the Human Rights Consortium Cymru.

Please answer all questions to the best of your ability to help us gain a better understanding of the sector’s position and priorities in relation to human rights in Wales.
Section 1: About you
1.Are you responding as:
2.If you are responding as an organisation, is your organisation:
Section 2: Your organisation and human rights
3.How important are human rights to you as an individual? For example, in your day to day life.
0 - Not important at all
A little important
10 - Critically important
4.Please can you explain a bit about your answer?
5.How important are human rights to your organisation?
0 - Not at all important
A little important
10 - Critically important
6.Please can you explain a bit about your answer?
7.Please can you tell us a bit about what your organisation does in relation to human rights? How does your organisation put human rights into practice?
Section 3: Your human rights priorities
8.What human rights related issues is your organisation and the communities you work with currently experiencing?
9.Are there any issues that you feel could be human rights related that your organisation and the communities you work with are experiencing or working on?
10.What challenges is your organisation facing in working on human rights or using human rights approaches (tick all that apply)
11.What issues do you think are currently most important in terms of human rights in Wales?
12.What issues or areas of work do you think the Human Rights Consortium Cymru could most usefully work on and coordinate with others on?
Section 4: What should the Human Rights Consortium Cymru do?
We want our work to reflect your ideas, views, needs, and priorities. We have limited staffing and time, so we cannot do everything. But we want what we focus on to be led by individuals with lived experience, voluntary sector organisations, and wider civil society. We want to know what would help you and add value to your human rights work.
13.In an ideal world what do you think the Human Rights Consortium Cymru should do? (tick all that apply)
14.What would be your top 5 priorities for the Human Rights Consortium Cymru from the list above?
Please select one option for each column from 1 - top priority to 5 - fifth highest priority.

Note: We understand you may have more than 5 things you would like us to do. We are trying to understand what the most important and valuable aspects of our work are to you.
Top priority (1)
Second priority (2)
Third priority (3)
Fourth priority (4)
Fifth priority (5)
Connect and build a network of organisations working on human rights or with an interest in human rights in Wales with each other
Convene (run) human rights network meetings in Wales
Attend Welsh and UK human rights network and related meetings and events, representing Wales and acting as a link between Welsh voluntary sector and civil society organisations and UK work
Work with Human Rights Consortia in Scotland and Northern Ireland to bring together devolved perspectives to learn from each other and influence progress together
Run online training and / or capacity building events on human rights tailored to voluntary sector organisations and civil society in Wales
Run in-person training and / or capacity building events on human rights tailored to voluntary sector organisations and civil society in Wales
Respond to human rights related consultations or inquiries from a Wales perspective
Work with Welsh public sector organisations to progress human rights through policy approaches and practice
Develop briefings for the sector on human rights issues, law, and policy in Wales
Develop Wales specific human rights toolkits for the sector to use
Develop research into Wales specific human rights issues and priorities
Respond to enquiries on human rights from voluntary sector and civil society organisations
Work towards incorporation of human rights treaties directly into Welsh law and policy
☐Coordinate or run human rights events in Wales (for example around International Human Rights Day)
Coordinate a Human Rights Wales festival
Convene (run) a Human Rights Congress for Wales to agree calls for legislation and action on human rights in Wales
Coordinate sector joint work around the rise of extremism, hate, and mis/disinformation in Wales.
Anything else? Is there something not mentioned above you would like us to do in an ideal world? (please state)
15.How could the Human Rights Consortium Cymru help and support you or your organisation?
16.How could the Human Rights Consortium Cymru add value to your work on human rights in Wales?
Section 5: How should the Human Rights Consortium Cymru involve you?
This survey and the engagement events we are running are one of the first opportunities to get involved with the Human Rights Consortium Cymru. There will be many more opportunities to get involved. We want to know how you want to get involved.
17.Would you like to take part in regular meetings of a human rights network for Wales?
18.How often should we bring together voluntary sector and civil society organisations for human rights network meetings?
19.How should the Human Rights Consortium Cymru keep you up to date with human rights developments and other human rights work relevant to Wales? Please tick all that apply
20.Would you like to attend conferences and other events organised by the Human Rights Consortium Cymru? (this is about events, rather than meetings)
21.Would you like to attend trainings or capacity building sessions run by the Human Rights Consortium Cymru?
22.Would you like to attend events, conferences, or trainings run by Human Rights Consortiums in Scotland and Northern Ireland (or in partnership with the Human Rights Consortium Cymru) when there are relevant to Wales?
23.Would you like to attend events, conferences, or trainings on human rights run by UK human rights organisations or networks?
24.Is there anything else you would like to say about how the Human Rights Consortium Cymru should involve you, your organisation, or others?
25.If you would like to get involved with the Human Rights Consortium Cymru please enter your name and email address here (this section will be separated from the survey before processing)

Alternatively please email: ehicks@wcva.cymru
Section 6: Anything else?
26.Would you like to say anything about your views on how the Human Rights Consortium Cymru should be structured, coordinated, governed, or involve you?
27.Do you have any other comments or anything else you would like to say?