38th Session of the Human Rights Council
Side Event
Follow-up to UPR of the United Arab Emirates
4th July 2018
At Palais des Nations, Room XXIII
14:30-15:30
You are cordially invited to attend a side-event held during the 38th session of the Human Rights Council. The purpose of this side event is to engage in a discussion on the follow-up to the recommendations of the UPR29 and on how to ensure that the recommendations are respected and implemented by the UAE. Given the recent sentencing of prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor to 10 years imprisonment by the Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal, many questions and concerns about the human rights situation in the UAE will be raised. In light of this, the panel will discuss the follow-up measures necessary to ameliorate the human rights environment in the UAE.
Moderator
Ines Osman, Regional Legal Officer for the Mashreq of the Alkarama Foundation
Panelists
Safwa Aïssa, Executive director of ICJHR
Drewery Dyke, Rights Realisation Centre
Julia Legner, Regional Legal Officer for the Gulf at Alkarama Foundation
Rodney Dixon QC, UK Barrister and Queens Counsel, Temple Garden Chambers, London and The Hague
Joe Odell, Campaigns Manager of ICFUAE