Next steps for the network of national mechanisms for implementation, reporting and follow-up and the NMIRF virtual hub: HRC61 side event

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

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 2016, the Dialogue took place from Tuesday 3rd May to lunchtime on Wednesday 4th May 2016, in Vevey, Switzerland.

• May 3, 2016 - 9:00 - 12:30
• By invitation only

Ahead of Glion III, the Universal Rights Group (URG), with a number of supportive State delegations in Geneva,  organised a series of informal policy dialogues, designed to allow early consideration and exchange on different aspects of ‘human rights implementation and...

• April 15, 2016 - 10:15 - 13:15
• By invitation only

Ahead of Glion III, the Universal Rights Group (URG), with a number of supportive State delegations in Geneva, organised a series of informal policy dialogues, designed to allow early consideration and exchange on different aspects of ‘human rights implementation and compliance.’...

• April 12, 2016 - 9:00 - 12:30
• By invitation only

Ahead of Glion III, 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 implementation...

• February 25, 2016 - 12:15 - 13:45
• By invitation only

"The Human Rights Council at 10: Improving relevance, strengthening impact" In 2006 member states took a significant step in strengthening human rights as one of the three pillars of the United Nations and established (with General Assembly resolution 60/251) the...

• May 5, 2015 - 9:30 - 13:30
• By invitation only