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The In this
issue: Postponement of CONGO’s Board Meeting and Launch
of CONGO’s Asia Regional Committee UPR: Geneva Course for Defenders from the Regions
60 Years Human Rights and 60 Years CONGO La haine de l’Occident:
Questionnement, nuances et éclairages – Book launch
and Panel Debate
OHCHR Travel Scholarship to Attend the Durban Review Conference 40 Years Club of Rome – 40 Years Future Research
Request to NGO Colleagues to Host Students in New York Exploring New Technologies in Media: Where Do YOU Get Your UN
News? Reconstituting Korean Security: plus ça change, moins
ça change
Addressing the Risks and Opportunities of Bioenergy Launch of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Postponement
of Further
details, including a comprehensive statement by UPR: CONGO
and Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training (GHR) are organising
a Geneva course for human rights defenders from the regions, attending
the 3rd session of the Working Group of the UN Human
Rights Council (HRC) on the Universal Periodic Reviews (UPR) entitled
“Course on the Human Rights Council, International Human Rights
and Humanitarian Law, International Procedures and Diplomacy”.
The course will take place from 1 to 11 December 2008 in More information
is available on CONGO’s
website. For more
information on the UPR, please visit www.upr-info.org. 60 years Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and 60 years CONGO
Vienna is organising in partnership with the City of This event
will be followed by a reception at the 60 Years since the Adoption of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and Genocide Convention: Evaluating
the Record – Conference, 9 – 10 December 2008,
The For more
information, please send an email to tami@ngo-monitor.org. La haine de l’Occident:
Questionnement, nuances et éclairages – Book launch
and Panel Debate, 4 December 2008, Geneva The University
of Geneva, Interdisciplinary Programme for Humanitarian Action (PIAH),
is organising a book launch and panel debate on the occasion of
the publication of “La haine de l’Occident: Questionnement,
nuances et éclairages” by Mr Jean Ziegler. The event
will take place on 4 December 2008 from 18:30 to 20:00 hours
at Uni Mail (Salle MS 160) in Freedom of Religion or
Belief: Perspectives and Challenges after Sixty Years of United
Nations Protection – One-Day Seminar, 8 December 2008,
The NGO
Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief (New York), Focus on
Freedom of Religion or Belief, the Jacob Blaustein Institute, Bahá’í
International Community, the Bristol Centre for the Study of Law
and Religion, and International Centers at Brigham Young University
are organising a one-day seminar on “Freedom of Religion or
Belief: Perspectives and Challenges after Sixty Years of United
Nations” on 8 December 2008 from 11:00 to 17:00 hours
in New York. The flyer
for this event is available here. Application for OHCHR Travel
Scholarship to Attend the The UN
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has announced
that it will make available travel scholarships to support NGO representatives
to attend the Durban Review Conference, which will be held from
20 to 24 April 2009, in The application
modalities and background information are available here.
40 Years Club of The Slovak
Association of the Club of Rome in cooperation with the European
Support Centre of the Club of Rome are organising a conference entitled
“40 Years Club of Rome – 40 Years Future Research”
on 9 December 2008 from 9:00 to 13:30 hours in Bratislava.
The Conference will attempt to outline the development of future
research from the beginning of the Club of Rome until today, and
will present the ongoing work of the Slovak Association of the Club
of Rome. More information
is available here (Slovak). International NGO Journal
– Call for Papers The International
NGO Journal (INGOJ) is publishing solicited and unsolicited articles
in all areas of NGO activities. INGOJ was founded to publish proposals,
appraisals and reports of NGO projects. The aim of this initiative
is to have centralised information on NGO activities, where stakeholders
including beneficiaries of NGO services can find useful information
about ongoing projects and obtain special assistance. Further
information on this initiative is available here. Request to NGO Colleagues
to Host Students for the DPI Human Rights Conference, 3 –
5 December 2008, The Education
Outreach Cluster is organising an annual Student Conference on Human
Rights from 3 to 5 December 2008 in For more
information, please contact Yvonne Acosta, Chief, Education Outreach,
Outreach Division/DPI (+1-212-963-7214) or Rosa-Maria Ndolo (+1-917-367-3030).
ADLER Entrepreneurship
Award, 6 December 2008, The African
Youth Foundation is holding its annual ADLER Entrepreneurship Award
event on 6 December 2008 in More information
is available here.
Exploring
New Technologies in Media: Where Do YOU Get Your UN News? –
DPI/NGO Communication Workshop, 4 December 2008, The UN
Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations
(DPI/NGO) is arranging a communication workshop entitled “Exploring
New Technologies in Media: Where Do YOU Get Your UN News?”
on 4 December 2008 from 10:15 to 17:00 hours in the Dag Hammarskjöld
Library Training Room L 270-C at UNHQ in More information
on this communication workshop is available here.
Reconstituting Korean Security:
plus ça change, moins ça change – UNU Book Launch
and Panel Discussion, 9 December 2008, The United
Nations University Office (UNU) is organising a book launch and
panel discussion entitled “Reconstituting Korean Security:
plus ça change, moins ça change” on 9 December
2008 from 13:15 to 15:30 hours at UNHQ in More information
on this event is available here.
Addressing the Risks and Opportunities of Bioenergy
– Roundtable, 10 December 2008, The Geneva
Environment Network (GEN) and the International Risk Governance
Council (IRGC) are organising a roundtable entitled “Addressing
the Risks and Opportunities of Bioenergy” on 10 December
2008 from 9:00 to 12:30 hours on the Ground Floor of the International
Environment House II in More information
about this event, including on the registration modalities, is available
here. Cultural Days 2009, 17
– 19 April 2009, The More information
is available here. Launch
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Human
Rights Prize – Call for Nominations The Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe is calling for nominations for
an annual Human Rights Prize, which will reward "outstanding
civil society action in the defence of human rights in More information
is available here. ***
The Working Group on Women’s Right to Health
under the CONGO Committee on the Status of Women ( For more information, please contact Afton Beutler and Manjit Dosanjh.
The Working Group on Violence
against Women and Girls, CONGO Committee on the Status of Women,
is meeting on 8 December 2008 from 11:00 to 12:30 hours in
For more information,
please contact Natalie
Fisher-Spalton. Decent Work Decent Life
Campaign Global Campaign against
Poverty Interactive global online
conversation on the "Universality of Human Rights”, by
WFUNA Appeal and Petition for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
www10.plala.or.jp/antiatom/en/WC/e07wc/e-20070902_dec_riso.html
Gender
Training Community of Practice (GT CoP) – UN-INSTRAW www.un-instraw.org/en/community-of-practice/general/gender-training-community-of-practice-gt.html
UN-NGO-IRENE Best Practices
Network www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo/irene
NGLS 2007 Yearly Review
of Civil Society www.un-ngls.org/site/article.php3?id_article=462 First Committee
Monitor – Resource on the General Assembly’s First Committee
on Disarmament and International Security www.reachingcriticalwill.org/political/1com/FCM.html Globethics.net
Library – A Global Digital Library on Ethics Resources
and Calendar for Peace Issues – International Peace Bureau
www.ipb.org and www.ipb.org/i/newsletters-and-publications/VI-A-ipb-newsletters-and-calendars.html
Fall 2008
NGO Briefings and Events, UN Department of Public Information (UN/DPI),
www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/brief_calendars/Briefing_Calendar_Oct_Dec_2008.pdf
Internet Governance Caucus Website 2009 UNDP Procurement Training Calendar www.undp.org/procurement/training.shtml
Human Rights
Day 2008 (10 December) Information Kit www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/60UDHR/IK_HRDay%202008_En_20081126.pdf 24 November – 12 December 2008: 18th
Annual Human Rights and People’s Diplomacy Training Programme,
25 November – 10 December 2008: 16 Days of Activism
Against Gender Violence – Campaign, Worldwide www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html
1-15 December 2008: Third Session of the Universal Periodic
Review (UPR) Working Group, Requests for accreditation should be sent to the Secretariat
of the Human Rights Council, to the attention of Mr Michael Amstrong (+41-(0)22-917-9269).
The accreditation office at the “Pregny Gate”
for the UPR Session is open from 9:00 to 17:00 hours from Monday
to Friday. 4 December
2008: HIV and Young People – Leadership for Change –
Panel Discussion, For more
information on this event, please contact Ms Edith
Buhain (+1-212-867-0679). 4 December
2008: “Why to mobilize to reaffirm the foundations of the
Human Rights?” – Training Session, For more
information, please contact CCGI
(+41-(0)-22-734-1465). Politics
of Hydrogen – Panel Discussion and Book Launch, 4 December
2008, www.ony.unu.edu/events-forums/events/2008/the-politics-of-hydrogen-book.html 10 December
2008: Are Human Rights Universal? – Live webcast available on www.un.org/webcast
10 December
2008: Does it Really Matter? Visa Facilitation in the Western Balkans:
Monitoring of the new Agreements – Conference, www.ecas-citizens.eu/content/view/138/146/1/1/
10 December
2008: “Stories” on Human Rights – Movie Screening,
For more
information, please send a mail to communication@fifdh.ch or call +41-(0)-76-562-8632. 12 December 2008: Commemorative Ceremony to Mark
the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, “[The
Human Rights] Council will hold a high-level event with the participation
of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and will bring
together people from various walks of life, including senior State
officials, members of civil society, human rights defenders and
a special guest with first-hand insight into the drafting of the
Declaration” 12-14 December
2008: Advancing a Peoples’ ASEAN – ASEAN Peoples’
Forum, www.apf2008.org/?q=welcome-to-asean-peoples-forum-2008
12-15 December 2008: Global Symposium –
Awakening Planetary Consciousness,
13 December
2008: Equality of Rights in Cultural Diversity – European
Colloquium, For more
information and to register, please contact Dorothée Pierard (+33-01-4307-8979).
15-16
December 2008: UN Forum on Minority Issues, www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/minority/forum.htm 16 December
2008: Advancing Cooperation between the United Nations and World’s
Religions –Conference, For more
information, including confirmation of participation, please contact
Mr Oistein Thorsen (+1-212-687-2163). 3-7 January
2009: Giving Children a Voice: The Transforming Role of the Family
in a Global Society – World Congress, www.childparentrelation.com/index.html 12-16 January 2009: 8th Session of
the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 14-16 January 2009: International Expert Group
Meeting on the Implementation of Article 42 of the Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/EGM_A42.html
18-21 January
2009: Discovering Soul – WSF 2009, 6th World Spirit
Forum, www.worldspiritforum.org/en/index.php 27 January
– 1 February 2009: World Social Forum 2009 – Registration
now open, 2-13 March
2009: 53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of
Women, www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/53sess.htm 12-13 March
2009: First International Conference on eGovernment and eGovernance
– Call for Papers, www.icegov.info (Abstracts and general enquiries may be forwarded to icegov@sobiad.org) 18-19 April
2009: Unite for Sight – 6th Annual Global Health
and Development Conference, www.uniteforsight.org/conference
17-20 June 2009: Building Community Centred Economies –
Conference, Brisbane 7-9 and
9-10 July 2009: InterAction Forum 2009 – 2009 International
Aid+Trade, www.aidandtrade.org/view.overview
10-13 July 2009: 2nd International
Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG 2009, Orlando – Call
for Papers www.iiis2009.org/wmsci/website/default.asp?vc=22
7-10 September
2009: Children and the Law: International Approaches to Children
and their Vulnerability – International Conference, www.med.monash.edu.au/socialwork/conference09
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