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This Conference, organized in partnership with ACEVO (United Kingdom), Order of the Architects (Portugal) and Microcredit Observatory (Bologna/Italy), is part of the strategy and mission of the Centre to raise the profile of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights through fostering the debate and innovative thinking, and pursuing research, lobbying and advocacy on pivotal ESCR issues. Aims at involving Civil Society organizations in the promotion and realization of ESCR, supporting them in a better understanding and use of the mechanisms and tools which already exist at a national, regional and international level, for their operacionalization.

The United Nations Human Rights Council will held its 6th session during 10 - 14 December 2007. The Council selected the countries to be reviewed in the Universal Periodic Review, providing a calendar of work for the Council for the next four years

The Conference brings together representatives of over 180 countries with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the media. The two week period includes the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, its subsidiary bodies as well as the Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol.