Thursday, October 23, 2025, starting at 12noon, at the Church Center of the United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, in New York, NY. Lunch will be served.
The event will also be livestreamed for those who wish to view from afar.
The Fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United States has been set to take place in November 2025. The UPR is a unique United Nations Human Rights Council process that allows all United Nations Member States to undergo a peer review of their human rights records every 4.5 years. So far this year, the United States government is refusing to participate in this process. Nonetheless, U.S. civil society will mobilize to ensure that people’s voices are heard through important testimonies to build a record toward addressing human rights violations here in the United States. As part of those efforts to build a record, a People’s UPR is being organized as a side event during the Third Committee Session at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, NY. We hope that the People’s UPR will be attended by United Nations, Country Mission, and Embassy staffers both in NY and in Geneva (via zoom).
There will be opportunities for directly impacted persons (a ‘directly impacted person’ is someone who is personally and directly affected by the law, policy, practice, act or omission by the government) to testify in-person during the People’s UPR regarding human rights issues in the United States. The event will be livestreamed but there will be no opportunities for persons to testify live via the web. Instead, we will play prerecorded testimony received via video ahead of time from persons who cannot attend in-person.
Tentative Schedule for People’s UPR:
12-2pm Testimony from Directly Impacted Persons
2-3pm Q&A
4pm Press Conference
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