IARF Training Workshop on UN Human Rights Mechanisms

 26-27 May 2012  
Geneva, Switzerland

In response to specific requests during the last 19th Session of the Human Rights Council in March 2012, from grassroots NGO representatives and human rights defenders, IARF in collaboration with the David M. Kennedy Centre for International Studies is organizing an international training workshop on the UN Human Rights Mechanisms – focus on the Human Rights Council and its subsidiary bodies (e.g. the Special Procedures, Advisory Committee and the Universal Periodic Review) – in conjunction with the 13th Session of the Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review

 

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Workshop agenda

 

 

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