Pre-Glion X Policy Dialogue with the Commonwealth Small States Office and the Permanent Missions of The Gambia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands on ‘Key characteristics and good practices in the establishment and development of NMIRFs.’

On Thursday 6th February, the Universal Rights Group and Facebook will be organising an informal lunchtime roundtable discussion (held under the Chatham House rule) on the important issue - relevant to a number of initiatives at the Human Rights Council...

• February 6, 2020 - 13:00 - 14:30
• Restaurant Vieux-Bois/ Geneva
• By invitation only

The main intergovernmental policy framework for combatting religious intolerance against persons based on religion or belief is set down in Human Rights Council resolution 16/18 and its sister resolution at the General Assembly – GA resolution 66/167. Resolutions 16/18 and...

• November 18, 2019 - All Day
• The Fokker Terminal/ The Hague
• By invitation only

The rights to religious freedom and equality are increasingly under challenge globally. In a number of countries, religious precepts are promoted by laws, policies and state sanctioned practices in ways that constitute de facto violations of other freedoms, particularly those...

• June 10, 2019 - 9:30 - 12:30
• By invitation only

Universal Rights Group New York, the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), and the UN Foundation are cosponsoring the global launch of: - The 2019 HRMI Human Rights Country Reports - HRMI Human Rights Data Portal - The URG-HRMI collaborative paper:...

• June 6, 2019 - 12:00 - 13:00
• Ford Foundation/ New York
• By invitation only

The main UN global policy framework for combatting religious intolerance, stigmatisation, discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against persons based on religion or belief is set down in Human Rights Council resolution 16/18 and its sister resolution at the General...

• April 8, 2019 - 9:30 - 17:30
• By invitation only

On Thursday 14 March, the Universal Rights Group in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Germany, the Geneva Academy and the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project of the University of Essex, will be organising an event in the...

• March 14, 2019 - 15:30 - 16:30
• Room XXVII, Palais des Nations, Geneva/ Geneva

Reservations to the core human rights treaties, entered at the time of ratification, are extremely widespread and, because they have direct implications for a State’s obligations under international law, have real and immediate consequences for the level of protection afforded...

• January 31, 2019 - 9:30 - 12:00
• Restaurant Vieux Bois, Geneva/ Geneva

Reservations to the core human rights treaties, entered at the time of ratification, are extremely widespread and, because they have direct implications for a State’s obligations under international law, have real and immediate consequences for the level of protection afforded...

• January 9, 2019 - All Day
• Carthage Thalasso Hotel/ Gammarth
• By invitation only

A key contemporary priority of the Human Rights Council and the UN's wider human rights pillar is to promote and support the domestic implementation of State's international human rights obligations and commitments. This emerging 'implementation agenda' is focused, squarely, on translating universal...

• November 26, 2018 - 10:00 - 11:30
• Restaurant Vieux Bois, Geneva/ Geneva

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...

• May 22, 2018 - 10:00 - 13:00
• Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG)/ Geneva