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

2013:

January-June

UN: CEDAW examination of Pakistan (12 Feb, 54th session, Geneva) More info here >>

Global Leadership Meeting on Inequalities in the Post-2015 Development Framework (18-19 February 2013, Copenhagen) More info here >>

UN: 22nd session of the Human Rights Council (25 Feb-22 March 2013, Geneva) More info here >>

UN: 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (4-15 March, New York) More info here >>

UN: Visit to India by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women (22 April – 1 May) Read about the mandate here >>

UN: Universal Periodic Review of Bangladesh (16th UPR session, 29 April 2013, Geneva). See IDSN information and read More info about the UPR here >>

UN: 23rd session of the Human Rights Council (27 May – 14 June, 23rd session, Geneva) More info here >>

2012:

September-November

UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (4-5 Dec 2012, Geneva) More info here >>

UN Forum on Minority Issues, Fifth session (27-28 Nov 2012, Geneva) More info here >>

UN: 21st session of the Human Rights Council (10-28 Sept 2012, 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, see IDSN submission on Pakistan) More info here >>

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

May-August

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

UN: Examination of Senegal by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (14-15 August 2012, Geneva) More info here >>

April

NCDHR: Mass march organised in New Delhi (24 April 2012) to ensure that budgets for Scheduled Castes are not diverted. More info here >>

February - March

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 2012, Palais des Nations, Geneva

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

2011:

November

IDSN: International Consultation on Good Practices and Strategies to Eliminate Caste Based Discrimination (29 Nov - 1 Dec 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 Sept 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 Sept 2011) More info here >>

August

UN: Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination review the United Kingdom (8 Aug-2 Sept 2011, 79th Session, Geneva) More info here >>

July

UN: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women review Nepal (11-29 July 2011, 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 organised by FEDO (11-13 May 2011, Kathmandu). More info here >>

UN: Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights review of Yemen (2-20 May 2011, 46th session, Geneva). More info here >> 

March

UN: Human Rights Council's 16th Session - IDSN/IMADR joint side-event on caste discrimnation (16 March 2011, 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 (28 February 2011 in Brussels). More info here >>

January

UN: Nepal Universal Periodic Review (25-27 January 2011, Geneva) More info here >>