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.’

  The Glion V retreat and its preparatory policy dialogues, looked at the human rights implications of the on-going UN reform process, launched in 2017 by the Secretary-General, António Guterres; and the parallel efforts of the Human Rights Council to...

• September 5, 2018 - 13:00 - 14:30
• Restaurant des Délégués/ Geneva

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...

• May 30, 2018 - All Day
• Hotel Le Mirador/ Chardonne
• By invitation only

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...

• May 15, 2018 - 9:00 - 13:00
• Palais des Nations/ Geneva
• By invitation only

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...

• May 1, 2018 - 9:00 - 13:00
• Permanent Mission of Thailand/ Geneve 1202
• By invitation only

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...

• April 24, 2018 - 9:00 - 13:00
• Permanent Mission of Mexico/ Geneva
• By invitation only

The Human Rights Council’s mandate to respond to human rights violations, including gross and systematic violations – as set down in operative paragraph 3 of GA resolution 60/251 – is well known. Less well known, but equally important, is the...

• September 5, 2017 - 13:00 - 14:30
• Restaurant des Délégués/ Geneva

The Glion Human Rights Dialogue is a retreat-style event bringing together around seventy senior policy-makers and other stakeholders in an informal, non-attributable setting designed to promote open, forward-looking and solutions-focused debate. In 2017, the Dialogue took place from Thursday 18th May to Friday 19th May...

• May 18, 2017 - All Day
• Hotel Victoria/ 1823 Glion-sur-Montreux
• By invitation only

The Human Rights Council’s mandate to respond to human rights violations, including gross and systematic violations - as set down in operative paragraph 3 of GA resolution 60/251 - is well known. Less well known, but equally important, is the...

• May 2, 2017 - 9:00 - 13:00
• Permanent Mission of Mexico/ Genève 1201
• By invitation only

The development of international human rights norms is seen as one of the great success stories of the UN. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly on 10th December 1948, the international community...

• November 4, 2016 - 13:00 - 14:40
• Conference Room CR.6, United Nations Headquarters, New York/ New York

On 17th October 2016, the Governments of Norway and Switzerland, supported by the Universal Rights Group (URG), held a panel discussion in Geneva on "Turning international norms into local reality: Are we seeing a new human rights ‘implementation agenda’?" An informal document containing a non-exhaustive summary of some of the key themes, discussions and ideas from the third Glion Human Rights Dialogue, and the four policy dialogues which preceded it, was presented at the event.

• October 17, 2016 - 9:30 - 12:30
• InterContinental Geneva/ 1209 Genève