How can National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) impact on politics?

We continue the series with a conversation about spheres of influence in politics. We do this together with Debbie Kohner* who talks about NHRI and their monitoring role in enabling rights-based politics. Some of the questions we asked: How can human rights monitoring influence new ways of thinking and doing politics? Are NHRIs inevitably politicised? How can NHRIs help reverse practices that negatively affect the space and activities of civil society organisations and human rights defenders? 

* Debbie Kohner has been Secretary General of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions since 2013.