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

National mechanisms for implementation, reporting, and follow-up (NMIRFs) are instrumental to effective reporting and follow-up of international human rights obligations and recommendations at the national level. These mechanisms serve as key versatile government institutional frameworks that facilitate the interaction between...

• February 24, 2026 - 15:00 - 16:00
• Room XII, Palais des Nations/ Geneva
• By invitation only

On 4th 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...

• December 4, 2025 - 17:00 - 19:30
• Norwegian Residence/ Geneva
• By invitation only

UN Women, the Permanent Missions of the People’s Republic of China, the Kingdom of Morocco, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates, Morocco’s Inter-Ministerial Delegation for Human Rights, and the Universal Rights Group, will organise the eleventh Glion Human Rights Dialogue...

• October 16, 2025 - 14:30 - 13:00
• Hotel Victoria/ 1823 Glion-sur-Montreux
• By invitation only

On 29-30 September 2025, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, supported by the Universal Rights Group, and the Oslo+ Steering Group (consisting of Norway, Sweden, and the European Commission), will host the fifth Oslo+ meeting of bilateral and multilateral...

• September 29, 2025 - 11:00 - 13:30
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Helsinki/ Helsinki
• By invitation only

This Policy Dialogue — hosted by Spain, and the final in a series of three dialogues leading up to the Glion XI retreat in October — will focus on: 'Key approaches to further mobilise the UN human rights system to...

• September 3, 2025 - 15:00 - 18:00
• Permanent Mission of Spain/ Geneve
• By invitation only

On 26 and 27 August 2025, the Multilateral Dialogue of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)  Geneva and the Universal Rights Group (URG) will provide an in-depth training workshop for diplomats newly arrived in Geneva on the working methods, instruments and mechanisms of the...

• August 26, 2025 - 14:30 - 13:00
• Château de Bossey/ Bogis-Bossey
• By invitation only

This Policy Dialogue — co-hosted by the Kingdom of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates, and the second in a series of three dialogues leading up to the Glion XI retreat in October — will focus on:‘The key ingredients of...

• July 3, 2025 - 14:00 - 17:00
• By invitation only

This Policy Dialogue — co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Thailand and Mexico, with the support of UN Women and the Universal Rights Group, and the first of three dialogues leading up to the Glion XI retreat in October —...

• June 5, 2025 - 9:30 - 13:15
• Permanent Mission of Thailand/ Geneve 1202
• By invitation only

Ahead of the Council’s 59th session in June (during which the core group on new and emerging digital technologies and human rights is expected to table the next iteration of its resolutions), on 4 June the Permanent Mission of the...

• June 4, 2025 - 13:00 - 15:00
• Restaurant Vieux Bois, Geneva/ Geneva
• By invitation only

The Universal Rights Group, in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom, is organising the 2025 annual informal retreat for new members of the Council. The retreat is an annual information-sharing event, begun in 2015, and designed to help new...

• February 3, 2025 - 9:00 - 12:30
• Vieux Bois Genève/ Genève
• By invitation only