10–13 Oct 2017
Palais des Nations
Europe/Zurich timezone
The purpose of the Pre-sessions is to offer Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and the National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) the opportunity to brief permanent delegations on the human rights situation in the States under Review (SuR). The following Pre-sessions will be organised: Argentina; Benin; Czechia; Ghana; Guatemala; Japan; Pakistan; Peru; Republic of Korea; Sri Lanka; Switzerland; Ukraine; and Zambia.
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Europe/Zurich
In-Person
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Room XXV
Geneva, Switzerland
Pre-sessions are meetings organised one month prior to the UPR Working Group session bringing together Permanent Missions, Civil Society Organisations, and NHRIs to discuss the human rights situation in the forthcoming States under Review. The Pre-session for each SuR lasts one hour. Civil Society Organisations and NHRI are given the floor between 5 to 7 minutes each, to share their assessment of the human rights situation in the country since the previous review and the progress accomplished by the SuR in implementing the recommendations.