Children’s rights: how to secure convergence at the Human Rights…
- September 28, 2023 - 13:00 - 15:00
- Vieux Bois Genève/ Genève
- BY INVITATION ONLY
future events
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Human Rights Policy Dialogue: The role of regions and municipalities in the review-implementation-reporting cycle of the UN human rights mechanisms
The Human Rights Policy Dialogue on the role of regions and municipalities in the review-implementation-reporting cycle of the UN human rights mechanisms will be a working lunch that will take place on 6th October from 13h00 to 15h00 and will bring together approximately...
- October 6, 2023 - 13:00 - 15:00
- Restaurant Vieux-Bois / Geneva
- By invitation only
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Launch of the yourHRC Guide to the 2023 UN Human Rights Council Elections
On Thursday 5th October 2023, the Universal Rights Group (URG) will host a digital event to mark the launch of the yourHRC.org Guide to the 2023 UN Human Rights Council Elections. The report is the ninth annual yourHRC.org Guide to...
- October 5, 2023 - 15:00 - 16:00
- By invitation only
past events
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Glion VI report launch and discussion
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
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Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda: leaving no one behind while accelerating SDG implementation
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
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Strengthening of Special Procedures mechanism and its on-the-ground impact
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
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NGO Roundtable - Measuring global human rights trends and the impact of the global human rights system
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
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Reconciling the right to non-discrimination and freedom of religion
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
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Measuring what Matters: HRMI 2019 Global Human Rights Data Launch
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
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UN reforms and human rights: a civil society dialogue
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
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The Glion Human Rights Dialogue 2019 (‘Glion VI’): 'Towards 2026 - Perspectives on the future of the Human Rights Council'
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
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Friday Exchange: The 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
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
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Oslo+1 meeting on international support for the national implementation of international human rights obligations and recommendations
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