The Glion VI retreat and its preparatory policy dialogues, was focused on the topic: 'Towards 2026: Perspectives on the future of the Human Rights Council.' Glion VI provided a platform for UN member States, the President of the Human Rights...

• September 4, 2019 - 13:00 - 14:30
• Hotel Intercontinental/ Genève

Universal Rights Group alongside a wide array of partners have organized a HLPF side event on “Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda: Leaving no one behind while accelerating SDG implementation” for 12 July, starting at 1:15, in Conference Room 1....

• July 12, 2019 - 13:15 - 14:30
• Conference Room 1/ New York City
• By invitation only

  The UN’s independent human rights experts - known as ‘Special Procedures’ - are considered by many to be, in the words of then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the ‘crown jewel’ of the international human rights system. Today, the UN...

• July 3, 2019 - 12:30 - 14:00

Commentary on the worldwide human rights situation is often characterised by assertions of an unfoldin g human rights crisis in much of the developing world, and back-sliding in some of the world’s major democracies. Clearly human rights violations are far...

• June 17, 2019 - 0:00
• Universal Rights Group/ Geneve
• By invitation only

The rights to religious freedom and equality are increasingly under challenge globally. In a number of countries, religious precepts are promoted by laws, policies and state sanctioned practices in ways that constitute de facto violations of other freedoms, particularly those...

• June 10, 2019 - 9:30 - 12:30
• By invitation only

Universal Rights Group New York, the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), and the UN Foundation are cosponsoring the global launch of: - The 2019 HRMI Human Rights Country Reports - HRMI Human Rights Data Portal - The URG-HRMI collaborative paper:...

• June 6, 2019 - 12:00 - 13:00
• Ford Foundation/ New York
• By invitation only

The purpose of this (Chatham House Rules) policy dialogue is to give civil society representatives the opportunity to receive an update on the UN reforms, with a particular focus on the development system, and to consider implications and opportunities for...

• May 30, 2019 - 13:00 - 14:30
• CUNY Graduate Center/ New York
• By invitation only

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, which is organised by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign...

• May 27, 2019 - 12:30 - 13:00
• Hotel Le Mirador/ Chardonne
• By invitation only

The Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, was one of the largest gatherings of State delegates, international experts, and civil society (especially women’s rights groups) representatives in the history of the UN. With the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the conference represented a critical turning point in international efforts...

• May 24, 2019 - 13:00 - 15:00
• Vieux Bois Genève/ Genève
• By invitation only

On 10th May the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden and SIDA, in cooperation with the Universal Rights Group will organise an informal meeting of development partners on how international cooperation can support national implementation of international human rights obligations...

• May 10, 2019 - All Day
• SIDA Offices/ Stockholm
• By invitation only