September-November 2012

UN: 21st session of the Human Rights Council (10-28 Sept, Geneva) More info here >>

UN: Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Japan, Ghana (14th UPR session, 22 Oct - 5 Nov 2012, Geneva. Pakistan is scheduled for review on 30 October) More info here >>

UN Forum on Minority Issues (4th session, 27-28 November 2012, Geneva)

May-August 2012

UN: Universal Periodic Review of India and the UK (13th UPR session, 24 May 2012, Geneva) More info here >> UPR side event, 25 May: "Follow-up to the outcome of the UPR of India and the UK" More info here >>

UN: 20th session of the Human Rights Council (18 June - 6 July, Geneva) More info here >>

UN: Examination of Senegal by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (August (dates tbc), Geneva) More info here >>

April 2012

NCDHR: Mass march organised in New Delhi (24th April) to ensure that budgets for Scheduled Castes are not diverted. More info here >>

February - March 2012

UN: Public Consultation on Stigmatization of the rights to water and sanitation (1 February 2012, Geneva) More info here >>

UN: 19th session of the Human Rights Council (27 Feb - 23 March 2012, Geneva) More info here >>

UN: Side event on "Dalit human rights defenders in South Asia" at the 19th session of the Human Rights Council, sponsored by IMADR in association with IDSN and NCDHR, 8 March (11.30-13.00), Palais des Nations, Geneva

UN: Examination of Yemen, Human Rights Committee (14-15 March 2012, New York) More info here >>

November 2011

IDSN: International Consultation on Good Practices and Strategies to Eliminate Caste Based Discrimination ( 29 November - 1 December 2011, Kathmandu, Nepal) More info here >>

UN: Forum on Minority Issues: Guaranteeing the rights of minority women (29 - 30 November 2011 - Geneva) More info here >>

September

UN: 18th session of the Human Rights Council (12 - 30 September 2011 - Geneva) More info here >>

UN: 10th Anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (UN General Assembly High-level Meeting, New York, 22 September 2011) More info here >>

August

UN: Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination review the United Kingdom (8 August - 2 September, 79th Session - Geneva) More info here >>

July

UN: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women review Nepal (11-29 July, 49th Session - New York) More info here >>

June

UN: 17th session of the Human Rights Council(30 May - 17 June 2011 - Geneva) More info here >>

Markus Perkins' photographs of caste discrimination in India exhibited at St. Paul's Cathedral  (June 2011 - London) More info here >>

May

Nepal: National Conference of Dalit Women (11-13th May - Kathmandu) - organised by FEDO. More info here >>

UN: Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights review of Yemen (2-20 May, 46th session - Geneva). More info here >> 

March

UN: Human Rights Council's 16th Session - IDSN/IMADR joint side-event on caste discrimnation (16 March, 3-5 pm, Room XXIII (23) at Palais des Nations, Geneva). More info here >>  

February

EU: Hearing on caste discrimination in South Asia in the European Parliament (28th February in Brussels). More info here >>

January

UN: Nepal Universal Periodic Review (25-27 January in Geneva. More info here >>

* Note that this calendar will be updated with more events as the year progresses *