Here you will find material regarding ILGA's involvement at the United Nations: UPR, HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, CSW, ECOSOC

Universal Periodic Review - UPR

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a new Human Rights peer review monitoring tool established by the United Nations in 2006. Each year 48 States are being reviewed by other States; in a timeframe of four years all the 192 UN member States in the world will have been reviewed. The review consists of four main steps: elaboration of reports; interactive dialogue with member States; adoption of the outcome of recommendations: implementation and follow-up. The various procedures involve States, international and national NGOs, national human rights institutes and other stakeholders. The Human Rights Council has started to review the UPR system for the second cycle. The second cycle in principle will start again as from June 2012.

Read the material regarding the UPR: http://ilga.org/ilga/en/article/mVhnW651Jq

Human Rights Council

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe. The Council was created by the UN General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the main purpose of addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them. Among the various mechanism it is managing the Universal Periodic Review; other features include a new Advisory Committee which serves as the Council’s “think tank” providing it with expertise and advice on thematic human rights issues and the revised Complaints Procedure mechanism which allows individuals and organizations to bring complaints about human rights violations to the attention of the Council. The Human Rights Council also continues to work closely with the UN Special Procedures established by the former Commission on Human Rights and assumed by the Council.  

Read the Joint Statement on ending acts of violence and related human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity signed by 85 States in March 2011: 
http://ilga.org/ilga/static/uploads/files/2011/9/27/Joint%20Statement%20on%20SOGI.pdf

Read the Resolution on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity signed in June 2011: 
http://ilga.org/ilga/static/uploads/files/2011/6/17/RESOLUTION%20L9rev1.pdf

ILGA held the panel The growing consensus: towards the end of criminalization and human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity at the 17th session of the Human Rights Council, in June 2011; for more information: 
http://ilga.org/ilga/en/article/n0zKAuz1YJ

Commission on the Status of Women - CSW

The UN Commission on the Status of Women was established in 21 June 1946 and is dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women. It is the principal global policy-making body. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and advancement of women worldwide.

Read the material regarding the CSW: http://ilga.org/ilga/en/article/mVhpLSP1uT

The Economic and Social Council - ECOSOC

The first way by which non-governmental organizations played a role in formal UN deliberations was through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Forty-one NGOs were granted consultative status by the Council in 1946. Today about 3,187 organizations have obtained the status. This accreditation allows NGOs to enter the United ­Nations and speak in their own name, enabling them to make oral interventions in the plenary ­sessions as well as organize panels on various subjects.

Read the material regarding the ECOSOC: http://ilga.org/ilga/en/article/mVhruI316O