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Civil Society Space and the
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How to Follow Up on United
Nations Human Rights Recommendations
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Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on "Practical recommendations for the creation and maintenance of a safe and enabling environment for civil society, based on good practices and lessons learned" (April 2016)
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The UN Secretary-General's reports on cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights
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Call for inputs - Report of High Commissioner - "Civil society space in multilateral institutions"
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2017
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Reminder! Eighteenth session - Working Group on the Right to Development - 3 to 7 April 2017
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Reminder! Call for inputs - Report of the Special Rapporteur on human rights to water and sanitation to the 36th session of the Human rights Council - Deadline 7 April 2017
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UN General Assembly Preparatory Process for the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration - Deadline 9 April 2017
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Call for inputs - "Good practices and challenges in business and access to financial services by indigenous peoples" -
Deadline 12 April 2017
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Your views matter! Help OHCHR define its strategic direction for 2018-2021 - Deadline 15 April 2017
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Call for inputs - "The role of national human rights institutions in Southeast Asia in protecting human rights" - Deadline 15 April 2017
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Information session - Draft guidelines on right to public participation - 20 April 2017, 15h - Rm XXIII, Palais des Nations, Geneva
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Deadline extended! Questionnaire - "Impact of economic and financial policies, especially those of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, on a democratic and equitable international order" - Deadline 20 April 2017
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NEW! Invitation - Consultation on the OHCHR's Management Plan 2018-2021, 21 April from 15:00-17:00, in Room XXVI, Palais des nations
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Call for inputs - Secretary-General's Report - "Role of national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights" - Deadline 24 April 2017
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NEW! 9th Session -
Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards - 24 April to 5 May 2017
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NEW! Request for inputs - Secretary General's report on the International Decade for People on African descent - Deadline 30 April 2017
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Call for inputs- Report on access to justice for the 37th HRC session - Article 13 of the Convention on Rights of persons with disabilities
- Deadline 1 May 2017
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Call for inputs - Special Rapporteur - "Non-State Actors and Extra-judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Killing" - Deadline 31 May 2017
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Call for
applications for the OHCHR Annual 2017 Fellowship Programme for people of African descent - Deadline 31 May 2017
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Update! Regularly updated news about what committees are meeting, documentation, jurisprudence, etc.
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26th session of the
Committee on Migrant Workers, 3 - 13 April 2017, Geneva. See the information note for NGOs:
English
- French
The
Committee against Torture will hold a General Discussion (GD) on the draft revised general comment "
on the
implementation of article 3 of the Convention in the context of article 22
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Friday, 28 April 2017, 10.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m., Room XIX, Palais des Nations, Geneva. Read More
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Update! Regularly updated calendar and news about which Special Procedures expert is travelling where?
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New Special Procedures communications search website
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Latest report of cases of human rights violations taken up by Special Procedures.
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Human Rights Council -- UPR
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Call for applications 4 vacancies of mandate holders to be appointed at HRC35 (June 2017)
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Deadline extension
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NEW! 27th session Universal Periodic Review Working Group (1-12 May 2017) - NGO Information Meeting Room Request - Deadline 17 April 2017.
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NEW! Information about NGO participation at the forthcoming 35th Session of the Human Rights Council - 6 to 23 June 2017 - Palais des Nations Room XX.
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Reminder! The deadlines for the stakeholders' submissions for the 28th and 29th sessions of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review are as follows:
30 March 2017 for 28th session and 29 June 2017 for 29th session. Stakeholders should submit their contributions through the online UPR submissions registration system (https://uprdoc.ohchr.org)
not later than the day of the given deadline (3:00 p.m.). Should organizations encounter technical problems using the online system, please contact the UPR Submissions Helpdesk (uprsubmissions@ohchr.org).
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Online portal
UPR Submission Guidelines for NGOs.
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Regional Human Rights Mechanisms
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Africa
New! Ruling in the matter of General Kayumba Nyamwasa and 6 Others which was rendered on 24th March at seat of the African Court in Arusha.
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French
The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights calls for contributions to the draft study on "HIV, the Law and Human Rights in the African Human Rights System: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Rights-based Responses to HIV.
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The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights announces the publication of the First Edition of the African Human Rights Yearbook, and invites abstracts for papers that will propose groundbreaking academic style contributions to the human rights discourse in Africa. Read more
Americas
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights continues work on the participatory development of its Strategic Plan and invites civil society to regional consultations.
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemns the deaths of nearly 100 people in prisons in Brazil.
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights presents financial projections for 2017 and opens dialogue to raise funds to defend and protect human rights in the region.
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Asia
New! Press release: AICHR judicial colloquium on the sharing of good practice regarding international human rights law, 13 - 15 March 2017.
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ASEAN, UN join forces to end violence against children.
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Europe
New! The Shrinking Space for Human Rights Organisations - New HR Comment by Nils Muiznieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights.
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Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic. Read more
UN experts urge UAE to quash the death sentence against a woman migrant domestic worker
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UN rights experts urge lawmakers to stop "alarming" trend to curb freedom of assembly in the US.
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Hungary's use of detention in the spotlight as UN torture prevention body concludes visit
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Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on this week's visit by the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, to the Arab League Summit in Jordan
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UN rights expert urges shift away from drugs in addressing depression.
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UN experts urge Saudi Arabia to halt forced evictions and demolitions of the Al-Masora neighborhood in Awamia. Read more
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Preserve separation of powers, Zeid urges Venezuela.
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UN rights experts urge Russia to drop Jehovah's Witness lawsuit which threatens religious freedom.
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