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This page provides you with easy access to the best resources about the Human Rights Council - published by the UN, NGOs, or the media.


Exranets
Direct access to the OHCHR extranets for the Council and Special Procedures:
  • Extranet: home, sign up
  • (username="hrc extranet", password="1session")

  • Work of the Council
    Final discussions on the institutional building process:
  • Work and structure of the Human Rights Council
  • Special Procedures, Nominations

    Key documents
  • List of members (+pledge)
  • HR Council Resolution 5/1 (Institution Building Package)
  • General Assembly resolution


  • Resources
    Calendar of Human Rights meetings

    Databases and search engines:
  • Who ratified what ? What Convention - Mandat
  • Observations and recommendations of UN expert bodies by country Universal Human Rights Index
  • Search 4'500+ human rights websites Hurisearch by HURIDOCS

  • Manuals:
  • How to work with Special Procedures? OHCHR
  • Issues of transition from the Commission to the Council Handbook - ISHR
  • Make your voice heard in the Council New Tactics


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    Universal Periodic Review
  • Main page
  • Calendar full cycle, ISHR version
  • Country reports: national report, UN report, stakeholder report

    UPR sessions:
  • 1st (7-18 April): Countries, Reports (UPR-Info, ISHR), Calendar, Troika,
  • 2nd (5-16 May 2008): Countries, Reports (UPR-Info, ISHR), Calendar, Troika
  • 3rd (1-12 December 2008): Countries, Reports (UPR-Info)


    NGO websites:
  • Technical guidelines for submissions, Deadlines
  • General Guidelines for the preparation of information under the UPR

  • CONGO page about the UPR
  • NEW! UPR-Info

  • Sessions of the Council
    Next session: 8-26 September 2008 (links actives shortly before the session)
  • Web-page
  • Documents for the session
  • Orders of the day
  • Bulletin of informal meetings
  • ISHR's daily updates


  • Previous sessions:
  • 8th: official page, ISHR's daily updates
  • 7th: official page, ISHR's daily updates
  • 6th: official page, ISHR's daily updates, FES fact sheet part I, part II
  • 5th: official page, ISHR's daily updates , FES Fact Sheet
  • 4th: official page, ISHR's daily updates
  • 3rd: official page, ISHR's daily updates
  • 2nd: official page, ISHR's daily updates
  • 1st: official page, FES Fact Sheet

  • Special sessions:

  • 7th (May 08) on the Right to Food
  • 6th (Jan 08) on Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • 5th (Oct 07) on Myanmar
  • 4th (Dec 06) on Darfur
  • 3rd (Nov 06) on Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • 2nd (Aug 06) on Lebanon
  • 1st (Jul 06) on Occupied Palestinian Territory, FES Fact sheet
  • ISHR's documents on special sessions


  • HuriSearch by HURIDOCS

    Search 3000+ human rights websites:

    NGO Corner
  • Information on NGO participation at the Council
  • Accreditation, for the 8th session
  • NGO Welcome Desk
  • NGO Information & Cooperation (NGOIC)
  • NGO Liaison Office of the UNOG


  • Locations of visitors to this page

    News and Analysis
  • HR Council Media
  • ISHR Daily Updates
  • CONGO news on the Council
  • Human Rights Tribune
  • Blog: Les coulisses des droits de l'Homme (Le Temps)
  • Blog: Bruits du Couloir
  • Headlines from Google News

  • Human Rights Tribune
    Human rights news and commentary with a focus on the Council.


    Geneva: Practical Info
  • Portals: I love Geneva, Geneva International Portal, Geneva Welcome Centre
  • Transport: Geneva airport, taxis, city buses, trains
  • Accommodation: hotels, NGO Welcome Centre (Mandat International)
  • Maps: Geneva, Palais des Nations
  • Also useful: Geneva Jobs, OHCHR vacancies, how to set up an NGO in Switzerland


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