Jun 30th 2021 @ 13:30 – 14:30 – The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have devastating effects on societies and economies around the world. It is negatively impacting the enjoyment of human rights and hampering progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this online event we are launching the Sustainable Recovery pledge. The undersigning States express their determination to build back better […]
Jul 1st 2021 @ 16:00 – 17:30 – In her first address to the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee as High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2018, Michelle Bachelet urged States to remember that ‘the human rights system is not a Cassandra, correctly predicting crises yet unable to prevent them. It is a force for prevention. When it is backed by the political […]
Jul 5th 2021 @ 13:30 – 14:45 – The Permanent Mission of Singapore and the Universal Rights Group, with the support of the Permanent Mission of Norway, and UNICEF, will be hosting an event in the margins of the 47th session of the Human Rights Council on ‘The human rights case for vaccine multilateralism’ on Thursday 5th July 2021, 13h30-14h45. The global distribution […]
Jul 29th 2021 @ 16:00 – The situation for environmental, land and indigenous defenders is nothing short of dire. Every year a new tragic record of violence against these defenders shocks the world. Their rights to life, physical integrity, safety, political participation, and freedom of expression and association – among others basic civil liberties – are continually and increasingly violated. In […]
Aug 31st 2021 – Sep 1st 2021 @ 15:00 – 16:30 – The Universal Rights Group (URG), in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of the United States to the UN in Geneva, is organising a virtual policy dialogue focusing on ‘Towards a new accountability? The role of UN-mandated investigative mechanisms in securing accountability for human rights violations at the national, regional and international level’. The policy dialogue […]
Oct 7th 2021 @ 15:00 – 16:00 – On Thursday 7th October 2021, the Universal Rights Group (URG) will host a digital event to mark the launch of the yourHRC.org Guide to the 2021 UN Human Rights Council Elections. The report is the seventh annual yourHRC.org Guide to the UN Human Rights Council Elections. It provided general information on the 2021 Council elections, […]
Oct 12th 2021 @ 13:30 – 15:00 – The Universal Rights Group, theAsia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, together with the Permanent Missions of Costa Rica, Croatia and Switzerland to the UN in New York will be hosting a virtual policy dialogue focusing on ‘The Powers of the General Assembly to Prevent and Respond to Atrocity Crimes: […]
Dec 6th 2021 – Dec 7th 2021 @ All Day – The Universal Rights Group in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment – David Boyd, and with the support of the Permanent Mission of Denmark in Geneva are organising a virtual workshop, […]
Dec 8th 2021 – Dec 9th 2021 @ All Day – The Universal Rights Group in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment – David Boyd, and with the support of the Permanent Mission of Denmark in Geneva are organising a virtual workshop, […]
Dec 15th 2021 @ 15:00 – 16:00 – On Wednesday 15th December, the Permanent Mission of Norway with the support of the Universal Rights Group will host an event to look back on the work, achievements and challenges of the Council in the past year. The event will mark the launch of the seventh yourHRC.org end-of-year report: ‘The Human Rights Council in 2021’. […]
