Information note for NGO engagement during the 46th session – Subject to change (updated as of 23 February 2021)
1. A practical guide for NGO participants (about accreditation, attending the session, access to the public gallery, requesting a room for a parallel event, making an oral statement, documentation and resources, and participation in general, etc.)
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Spanish. Before you request for accreditation to the HRC/UPR sessions and related meetings, please ensure that you have finalized the annual accreditation of your NGO with the United Nations Office at Geneva. For more information on annual accreditations, please consult the following website:
www.unog.ch/ngo/accreditation.
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Written statements of NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC shall be submitted through the online platform available at
https://ngoreg.ohchr.org. In view of the 46th regular session of the Human Rights Council (22 February–19 March 2021), the registration for NGO written statements for this session will open on 19 January 2021 at 9 am (Geneva time).
Deadline: 1 February 2021 at 6 pm (Geneva time).
IMPORTANT: Please make sure to get acquainted with the updated guidelines on the process and the platform of submission of NGO written statements (please see point 3 below).
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Updated guidelines on the process and the platform of submission of NGO written statements (as of January 2021) can be downloaded here to assist:
English.
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Link to Oral Statement Registration for HRC 46. Download here the guidelines on how to use the online registration system for Oral Statements
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The online system to register for oral statements will open on Thursday 18 February at 14:00 (Geneva time). Please note that NGOs are requested to re-register, as credentials used for previous sessions cannot be brought forward. NGOs that have already registered for written statements will have to use the same credentials.”
5. NGO joint-statement form - Oral Statement [Download].
6. Side-events: As a result of the current COVID-19-related restrictions, side-events cannot take place inside the Palais des Nations during the 46th regular session of the Human Rights Council (22 February–19 March 2021). For the sole purpose of information-sharing, external events that would be organized by NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC in parallel to the session could be listed on the OHCHR civil society webpage , under the News Section (https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CivicSpace/Pages/ProtectingCivicSpace.aspx). In such cases, the NGOs should contact the Civil Society Team of OHCHR at hrcngo@ohchr.org – providing the details of their event (title, date, time, on-line link, and contact person). Please note that such NGO events will not be considered as official Human Rights Council events, and are held on the sole responsibility of the organizing NGOs, with the Secretariat bearing no responsibility whatsoever.
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Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: Handbook for Civil Society.
8. Participating in the Human Rights Council by video message: [Download]. For the specific modalities for HRC45, please refer to the
information note.
Practical guidelines on how to create captions.
9. Calendar and deadlines for registration:
pending update
For further information or assistance, please contact the NGO Liaison team of the Human Rights Council Secretariat at
hrcngo@ohchr.org.