Putting Health at the Heart of Human Rights: Leveraging the Universal Periodic Review to Advance the Right to Health

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council is a peer-review mechanism through which the human rights records of all UN Member States are examined every four to five years. It offers a critical platform for assessing states’ compliance with their human rights obligations, including the Right to Health.

As part of the 59th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC59), this side event is organized to provide a high-level platform for dialogue among ministers, diplomats and senior policymakers to exchange experiences and practical strategies for integrating the Right to Health into national reporting under the UPR and move towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

The session will feature experiences and insights from countries across the WHO regions on how to integrate health into UPR submissions, follow-up mechanisms, and national accountability frameworks. It is co-convened by the Permanent Missions of Barbados, Guyana, and Rwanda together with CeHDI.

Participants will reflect on national approaches to rights-based governance, identify priority actions, and reinforce the importance of protecting health as a fundamental human right within multilateral human rights mechanisms through keynote interventions, a high-level panel, and an open discussion with audience members.

📌This is an in-person event. Click here to register.