UNA-NY presents LGBTI Human Rights Consultation A Special UPR Panel

Description: 

United Nations Association of New York new presents: #LGBTI Human Rights Consultation - a Special Universal Periodic Review Panel on August 8th at 6:30 PM.

Every 5 years the UN Human Rights Council evaluates the human rights performance of all UN Member States, as part of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

How to participate: http://www.unanyc.org/events/2019/20190912_LGBTI_panel.html

Panelists are: Shijuade Kadree, Chief Advocacy Officer of The LGBT Community Center; Christian Courtis, who is currently Gender and Women’s Rights Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York; and the panel moderator, Maria Sjödin, the Deputy Executive Director of OutRight Action International.

Register: http://www.unanyc.org/events/2019/20190912_LGBTI_panel.html

Date: 
Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 06:30pm to at 08:30pm
Location: 
One Bryant Park (Bank of America building, corner of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue)