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Main events of the year
Organizer Event Date Location Link
Human Rights Council / HRC 58th session


Palais des Nations
Human Rights Council / HRC 59th session


Palais des Nations
ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment 2025


Palais des Nations
Next events
Organizer Event Date Location Link
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) / 98th session


Palais Wilson
48th Session | Informal consultations


Room XXII (Palais des Nations)
HRC Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review / 48th session #UPR48


Room AH (Palais des Nations)
Expert workshop on new developments in ensuring access to medicines, vaccines and other health products

Virtual
Public Events
Book Launch - The Rise of Knowledge Brokers in Global Education Governance

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Online
Public Events
Webinar | What AI may mean for public engagement with parliaments

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Online
Public Events
Café-débat de la FGC | Restitution d'une démarche de capitalisation sur le théâtre en milieu scolaire

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Salle Eckenstein, 22A rue Rothschild et en ligne
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) / 55th session


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances / 135th session


Room IX (Palais des Nations)
Public Events
Webinar: Multilateralism & Cities in 2025 – What to expect: Plastics, Pandemics; Forum of Mayors & Other Global Issues!

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Online
Public Events
Déjeuner-débat avec Pierre Krähenbühl, Directeur général du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge

Restaurant Vieux-Bois, Genève
Launch of the Annual Appeal 2025

Palais des Nations
Public Events
The Pushback on Women’s Rights Must Be Stopped

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Maison de la Paix and online
Introducing UNHCR Executive Committee Conclusion on Durable Solutions and Complementary Pathways

Room XXV (Palais des Nations)
Technical briefing on the topic for the ExCom conclusion: climate action as relevant to UNHCR’s activities

Palais des Nations, Room XXVI
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) / 90th session


Palais des Nations
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) / 100th Pre-sessional Working Group


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on Business and Human Rights / 40th session


Palais des Nations
International Humanitarian Action and the Role of Local and Regional Authorities

Geneva and online
HRC Working Group on Communications / 35th session


Room III (Palais des Nations)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) / 77th Session


Room PWG (Palais Wilson)
Organizational meeting for the 58th session of the Human Rights Council

Room AH (Palais des Nations)
Seventh intersessional meeting of the Human Rights Council on Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda

Room XX (Palais des Nations)
Briefing on UNHCR for new delegates

UNHCR Headquarters, MBT-04
Half-day of general discussion on gender stereotypes

Palais des Nations Room XXIII
HRC Advisory Committee / 33rd session


Room AH (Palais des Nations)
Public Events
Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

International Conference Center Geneva CICG
Second GFMD Preparatory Meetings and Roundtable Consultations


Geneva & Hybrid
Briefing on sustainable responses

Palais des Nations, Room VII
Human Rights Council / HRC 58th session


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on the Rights of Peasants / 3rd session


Palais des Nations
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) / 92nd Pre-sessional Working Group


Palais des Nations
Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples / 39th session


Room IX (Palais des Nations)
Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples / 38th session


Palais des Nations
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) / 32nd session


Palais des Nations
Human Rights Committee (CCPR) / 143rd session


Palais des Nations
International Film Festival and Forum on Humain Rights | FIFDH 23rd edition


Maison communale de Plainpalais, Rue de Carouge 52
GANHRI 2025 Annual Meeting


Palais des Nations
38th Annual Meeting | Informal consultations


Room XXI (Palais des Nations)
First preparatory meeting for the High-Level Officials Meeting (HLOM)

Palais des Nations
IPC on the ExCom conclusion

Palais des Nations, Room XXIII
HRC UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture Board of Trustees / 61st session


Room IX (Palais des Nations)
92nd meeting of the Standing Committee


International Conference Center Geneva, Rooms A-B-C
HRC Working Group on Arbitrary Detention / 102nd session


Room IX (Palais des Nations)
Public Events
Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks | HNPW 2025


CICG Geneva & online
20th General Assembly

Online
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) / 21st Pre-Sessional Working Group


Palais des Nations
Committee Against Torture (CAT) / 82nd session


Palais des Nations
Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) / 28th session


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on the use of mercenaries / 54th session


Room IX (Palais des Nations)
Expert workshop on the role of the family and family-oriented approaches, policies and programmes in the promotion and protection of human rights and in sustainable development


Palais des Nations
Assemblée générale de la FGC

Genève
24th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action


Room XII (Palais des Nations)
Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on regulatory framework of activities of private military and security companies / 6th session


Palais des Nations
Meeting of Chairpersons of the HR Treaty Bodies / 37th session


Palais des Nations
Informal consultative meeting on multi-year budgeting

Palais des Nations, Room XXIII
Briefing on the report of the ACABQ on the 2025 programme budget

Virtual
HRC Working Group on Business and Human Rights / 41st session


Palais des Nations
11th session of the Group of Independent Eminent Experts on the Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action


Palais des Nations
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) / 115th session


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on Situations / 35th session


Room V (Palais des Nations)
HRC Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances / 136th session


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review / 49th session #UPR49


Room AH (Palais des Nations)
HRC Working Group on People of African Descent / 36th session


Room XII (Palais des Nations)
OEIGWG on an OP-CRC to extend the right to free education / 1st session


Palais des Nations
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) / Working Group on Communications - 99th session

Palais des Nations
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) / 99th session


Palais des Nations
HRC Open-ended Working group on the Right to Development / 26th session


Room Tempus (Palais des Nations)
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) / 101st Pre-sessional Working Group


Palais des Nations
Organizational meeting for the 59th session of the Human Rights Council

Room AH (Palais des Nations)
Evaluation briefing on UNHCR’s multi-country emergency response to the Sudan situation

Virtual
Third GFMD Preparatory Meetings and Roundtable Consultations


Geneva & Hybrid
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) / 56th session


Palais des Nations
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) / 40th session


Palais des Nations
Launch of the UN Human Rights Report 2024

Palais des Nations
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) / 91st session


Palais des Nations
Human Rights Council / HRC 59th session


Palais des Nations
93rd meeting of the Standing Committee


International Conference Center Geneva, Room D
Central Committee meeting


Geneva
ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment 2025


Palais des Nations
Human Rights Committee (CCPR) / 144th session


Palais des Nations
36th Session of the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance


Geneva
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) / 93rd Pre-sessional Working Group


Palais des Nations
Committee Against Torture (CAT) / 83rd session


Palais des Nations
18th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples


Palais des Nations
Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament


Geneva
HRC Advisory Committee / 34th session


Room Tempus (Palais des Nations)
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) / 116th session


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on Communications / 36th session


Room III (Palais des Nations)
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) / 33rd session


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on Arbitrary Detention / 103rd session


Room IX (Palais des Nations)
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) / 100th session


Palais des Nations
Organizational meeting for the 60th session of the Human Rights Council

Room AH (Palais des Nations)
Informal consultative meeting on UNHCR’s annual programme budget for 2026

TBC
Open-ended intergovernmental working group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the rights to early childhood education, free pre-primary education, and free secondary education


Room III (Palais des Nations)
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) / 22nd Pre-Sessional Working Group


Palais des Nations
Human Rights Council / HRC 60th session


Room AH (Palais des Nations)
94th meeting of the Standing Committee


International Conference Center Geneva, Room D
4th Annual Session of the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances / 137th session


Room IX (Palais des Nations)
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