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

On Tuesday 22th January, the Permanent Mission of Norway hosted a Human Rights Council New Year reception to look back on the work, achievements and challenges of the Council last year, and to look forward at 2019. The reception, organised in...

• January 22, 2019 - 18:00 - 20:00
• Residence of Ambassador Hans Brattskar, Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations in Geneva/ Geneva
• By invitation only

On 15th January, the Permanent Missions of Denmark and Chile on behalf of the Group of Friends on Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and with support of the Universal Rights Group will be organising a reception...

• January 15, 2019 - 18:00 - 20:00
• Hotel Intercontinental/ Genève
• By invitation only

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

The Commonwealth, Universal Rights Group and the Bingham Centre, in cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will be hosting a roundtable discussion and publication launch on 21st November 2018 entitled 'The global...

• November 21, 2018 - 11:00 - 13:00
• Commonwealth Small States Office/ Geneva

On Monday 24th September 2018, the Permanent Mission of Norway and the Universal Rights Group (URG) will host a lunch reception to mark the launch of the yourHRC.org Guide to the 2018 UN Human Rights Council Elections. The report is the fourth annual yourHRC.org Guide...

• September 24, 2018 - 13:00 - 14:30
• Restaurant des Délégués/ Geneva

  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

On Thursday 28th June 2018, the Permanent Missions of Ecuador, Italy, the Maldives, Morocco, the Philippines, Romania, and Spain. in cooperation with OHCHR, the IPU, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and the Universal Rights Group will organise a...

• June 28, 2018 - 13:00 - 14:30
• Palais des Nations, Room XXVI/ Geneva

On Wednesday 20th June 2018, the Universal Rights Group, in cooperation with Permanent Missions of the Bahamas and Fiji, will organise a side event in the margins of the 38th Session of the Human Rights Council on ‘Strengthening the participation...

• June 20, 2018 - 13:30 - 15:00

In February 2016, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and the Universal Rights Group launched a new diplomatic initiative in Geneva: the ‘Friday Exchange.’ The Friday Exchange is a series of quarterly informal policy dialogues (small roundtable discussions) designed to...

• June 7, 2018 - 13:00 - 15:00
• Restaurant Vieux Bois, Geneva/ Geneva
• By invitation only