Feb 7th 2020 @ 9:00 – 13:00 – On Friday 7th February the Permanent Missions of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, with the support of the Universal Rights Group, will organise an informal half-day retreat for new Member States of the Human Rights Council. The annual ‘new members retreat’, now in its fifth year, aims to provide a space for an informal, […]
Feb 11th 2020 @ 9:00 – 13:00 – Ahead of Glion VII, 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 ‘Human rights in the digital age: making technology work for rights’. On Tuesday 11th February 2020, the Permanent Mission […]
Feb 25th 2020 @ 12:00 – 13:00 – On Tuesday 25th February 2020, the Permanent Missions of the Maldives, the Netherlands, Armenia, Australia, and Switzerland, with the support of the Universal Rights Group organised a high level side event in the margins of the 43rd Session of the Human Rights Council on ‘Towards a more inclusive, representative and responsive Council’. If the Human […]
Mar 2nd 2020 @ 13:15 – 14:30 – Universal Rights Group NYC and the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights would like to invite you to a panel event on human rights and UN Secretary-General Guterres’ prevention agenda. In October 2019, URG-NYC published the report “Policy or aspiration: shedding light on the current status of Human Rights up Front”, which […]
Mar 26th 2020 @ 9:00 – 13:00 – Ahead of Glion VII, 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 ‘Human rights in the digital age: On Thursday 26th March 2020, the Permanent Mission of Thailand and the […]
Apr 8th 2020 @ 15:00 –
The RightOn initiative will provide a platform for debate and exchange of ideas on topical human rights issues through regular webinars, which will take place every Wednesday at 3 PM CEST. The first of these Wednesday Web Chats will take place on 8th April 2020 on will focus on the issue of ‘Fighting online hate speech and fake news in a global crisis’.
Apr 15th 2020 @ 15:00 – 16:00 – In partnership with the Permanent Missions of Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, UNFPA, the Geneva Academy, the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex, World Jewish Conference, the Geneva Rights Platform, and the Geneva Internet Platform, the URG is launching a new digital initiative to keep the conversation on key human rights issues going […]
Apr 22nd 2020 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – In partnership with the Permanent Missions of Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, UNFPA, the Geneva Academy, the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex, World Jewish Conference, the Geneva Rights Platform, and the Geneva Internet Platform, the URG has launched a new digital initiative to keep the conversation on key human rights issues going […]
Apr 29th 2020 – Apr 30th 2020 @ 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, which is organised by the Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the URG, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Botswana, Fiji, Iceland, Mexico, Senegal, and Thailand, will […]
Apr 29th 2020 @ 15:00 – 16:00 – In partnership with the Permanent Missions of Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, UNFPA, the Geneva Academy, the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex, World Jewish Conference, the Geneva Rights Platform, and the Geneva Internet Platform, the URG has launched a new digital initiative to keep the conversation on key human rights issues going […]
