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About Advocacy in Geneva
As the birthplace of humanitarian action and the center of the human rights work of the United Nations, Geneva offers Human Rights Watch a unique setting for our vocation to protect and promote human rights worldwide. Our work in Geneva, while multi-faceted, focuses on monitoring the activities of the United Nations and other international agencies in order to inform, influence and advance debates and policies on human rights.
The Human Rights Council (HRC), launched in 2006, the highest intergovernmental body dealing with human rights issues, currently represents the greatest focus of our advocacy work. In addition we do extensive advocacy work with United Nations bodies, such as the Office of the High, Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN office of the High Commissioner for Refugees. Human Rights Watch also works extensively in relation with Permanent Missions, Non Governmental Organizations, human rights experts, and Swiss and international media based in Geneva..
Human Rights Watch provides diplomats and international policymakers with fresh information from the field about current human rights situations, and activily engage in the UN reform through rigorous analyses of the UN system of protection of human rights worldwide. Our offices in other world locations and our headquarters in New York, enable us to follow up initiatives launched in Geneva in relevant world locations where decisions that affect women, men and children of many countries are also made. Human Rights Watch also plays an active role with the Swiss government.
For more information on our work with the United Nations, click here.
The Universal Periodical Review (UPR)
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a country assessment mechanism within the framework of the new UN Human Rights Council. Under the UPR all UN member states are subject to review of their human rights records. The review is carried out by member states of the UN Human Rights Council meeting in a Working Group. The UPR is therefore an intergovernmental or "state-driven" process, like a peer review mechanism. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), however, have an important role to play in the UPR and can also use the UPR in their wider advocacy strategies. More…
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