Apr 20th 2018 @ 8:30 – 18:00 – On 20th April the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, in cooperation with the Universal Rights group organised an informal meeting of development partners on how international cooperation can support national implementation of international human rights obligations and commitments. Many development actors, including Norway, support human rights based approaches (HRBAs) to development cooperation and programming. Different actors have developed their […]
Apr 24th 2018 @ 9:00 – 13:00 – Ahead of Glion V, the Universal Rights Group (URG), with a number of supportive State delegations in Geneva, will organise a series of informal policy dialogues, designed to allow early consideration and exchange on different aspects of ‘the place of human rights in a reformed United Nations’. On Tuesday 24th April 2018, the Permanent Mission of Mexico […]
May 1st 2018 @ 9:00 – 13:00 – Ahead of Glion V, the Universal Rights Group (URG), with a number of supportive State delegations in Geneva, will organise a series of informal policy dialogues, designed to allow early consideration and exchange on different aspects of ‘the place of human rights in a reformed United Nations’. On Tuesday 1st May 2018, the Permanent Mission of […]
May 2nd 2018 @ 9:00 – 16:30 – On Wednesday 2nd May the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Group of Friends on national implementation, reporting and follow-up, in cooperation with the Universal Rights Group (URG) will be organising a one-day workshop on ‘implementation of human rights mechanisms recommendations: the role of national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up […]
May 15th 2018 @ 9:00 – 13:00 – Ahead of Glion V, the Universal Rights Group (URG), with a number of supportive State delegations in Geneva, will organise a series of informal policy dialogues, designed to allow early consideration and exchange on different aspects of ‘the place of human rights in a reformed United Nations’. On Tuesday 15th May 2018, the Permanent Mission of Senegal […]
May 18th 2018 @ 10:00 – 15:00 – On Friday 18th May, the Permanent Missions of Australia, Germany, and Uruguay with the support of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the Universal Rights Group will be organising a High-Level Conference on: ‘Human Rights Council Investigative Mechanisms and Preventing Mass Atrocities’ The international community has increasingly relied on Human Rights Council (HRC) […]
May 22nd 2018 @ 10:00 – 13:00 – On 22nd May the Permanent Missions of Argentina, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom with the support of the Universal Rights Group will organise a panel discussion to mark the launch of the policy brief entitled ‘Corruption: a human rights impact assessment‘. This new policy brief, by URG, Kroll and Angela Barkhouse aims, for the first […]
May 30th 2018 – May 31st 2018 @ All Day – The Glion Human Rights Dialogue is a retreat bringing together around sixty senior policy-makers and other stakeholders in an informal, non-attributable setting designed to promote open, forward-looking and solutions-oriented debate. This year’s Dialogue took place from Wednesday 30th to Thursday 31st May 2018 at Le Mirador Hotel in Chardonne, Switzerland Immediately after taking Office in […]
Jun 7th 2018 @ 13:00 – 15:00 – In February 2016, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and the Universal Rights Group launched a new diplomatic initiative in Geneva: the ‘Friday Exchange.’ The Friday Exchange is a series of quarterly informal policy dialogues (small roundtable discussions) designed to allow States (ambassador level) from all regions to exchange opinions, bridge differences and identify common […]
Jun 20th 2018 @ 13:30 – 15:00 – On Wednesday 20th June 2018, the Universal Rights Group, in cooperation with Permanent Missions of the Bahamas and Fiji, will organise a side event in the margins of the 38th Session of the Human Rights Council on ‘Strengthening the participation and representation of SIDS at the Human Rights Council’. This side event will provide States […]
