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.’

This consultation, organised by the Universal Rights Group (URG), Amnesty International (AI), and the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Human Rights (JBI), and hosted by the British Ambassador to Uruguay, H.E. Mr Ian Duddy, will convene key stakeholders involved in the Special Procedures...

• February 16, 2017 - All Day
• Residence of H.E. Mr. Ian Duddy, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay/ Montevideo
• By invitation only

Panel discussion on The 16/18 action plan and the Istanbul Process: implementation and progress The event will also see the launch of a report of the 6th session of the Istanbul Process, held in Singapore (July 2016) This important event...

• February 14, 2017 - 10:00 - 12:00
• Restaurant Vieux Bois, Geneva/ Geneva

In follow-up to a roundtable event in September 2016 on the finding common ground on the UN Declaration on the Right to Development, on 10 February, URG and the Permanent Mission of Denmark co-hosted a working lunch, with a cross-regional...

• February 10, 2017 - 13:00 - 15:00
• Restaurant Vieux Bois, Geneva/ Geneva
• By invitation only

On Monday 12th November, the Permanent Mission of Norway and the Universal Rights Group (URG) hosted a reception to look back on the work and achievements of, and challenges faced by, the Human Rights Council and its members in 2016, and...

• December 12, 2016 - 12:15 - 14:00
• Palais des Nations/ Geneva
• By invitation only

In 2006, member states sought to strengthen human rights as one of the three pillars of the United Nations by establishing (under General Assembly Resolution 60/251) the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission on Human Rights as the UN's...

• November 22, 2016 - 12:30 - 18:45
• The Council Room, Strand Campus, King’s College/ London
• By invitation only

Following on from the policy dialogue held in Geneva in April of this year, Ms. Angela Barkhouse of Kroll, Mr. Marc Limon of the Universal Rights Group, and Mr. Faisal Osman of 33 Chancery Law hosted a second policy dialogue, as...

• November 21, 2016 - 10:00 - 14:30
• The Army and Navy Club/ London
• 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

The Geneva Environment Network and the United Nations Environment Programme, in association with the Right Livelihood Award, the Universal Rights Group and the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN in Geneva,  held a roundtable discussion with Award winning environmental and...

• October 31, 2016 - 11:00 - 13:00
• International Environmental House II/ Geneva
• By invitation only

Kindly hosted by the Government of Fiji, the Convention against Torture Initiative (CTI), in partnership with the Universal Rights Group and the Association for the Prevention of Torture, held a regional workshop in the Pacific region to address the benefits of...

• October 27, 2016 - All Day
• InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa/ Natadola
• By invitation only

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