Future events
The 8th Open Government Partnership Global Summit held in Tallinn on 6–7 September 2023.
The OGP Global Summit took place in Telliskivi Loomelinnak, or the Telliskivi Creative City, which is located on the site of the former Baltic Railway factory and where more than twenty non-governmental organizations and cultural institutions operate today. During the Soviet occupation, the factory was nationalized and renamed after M. I. Kalinin. The large-scale block was closed to local residents at the time.
Today, locomotives, transformers, and Soviet mechanics may be gone, but their industrial echo remains. Modest construction in what would become the Telliskivi Creative City, started in 2007. By 2009, the first long-term tenant, the HQ of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, moved in. They were followed by a weekly flea market and a skate park. If you felt ordinary and mainstream, its ramps cured it fast. Dozens of bands took up practice spaces in the so-called Band Building.
44th Session of the UPR Working Group held on 6-17 November 2023
Through the Universal Periodic Review, the Human Rights Council will review, on a periodic basis, the fulfilment by each of the 193 United Nations Member States of their human rights obligations and commitments.
A review of a State is based on: (a) a national report prepared by the State under review; (b) a compilation of United Nations information on the State under review prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); and (c) a summary of information submitted by other stakeholders (including civil society actors, national human rights institutions and regional organizations), also prepared by OHCHR.
