UN General Assembly side-event: “Refusing to Turn Away”

On Wednesday 12 October 2022, a side event will take place on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York discussing my new report “Refusing to turn away: human rights defenders working on the rights of refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers”.

Join from 13:15 EST / 19:15 CET. The event will be live-streamed from CIVICUS’ Facebook page. To attend in-person you must be in possession of a UN badge to access the UN HQ building, and RSVP to AnnaMae.Keneally@dfa.ie.

The event is co-sponsored by:

The Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN

The Permanent Mission of the United States of America to the UN

The Permanent Mission of Norway to the UN

CIVICUS

Front Line Defenders

Solidarity Center

ISHR

ICNL

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