Past Events

To close the third edition of the Current Issues in Armed Conflict Conference, Helen Durham, Director of Law and Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will deliver a keynote address.

This event will present the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areasand discuss its contributions to the implementation of the UN Decade of Family Farming.

This annual conference, co-organized with the Human Rights Centre of University of Essex, provides a space to discuss the legal and policy issues that have arisen in the past and the current year in relation to armed conflicts situations.

This panel discussion will address the human rights challenges arising from new and emerging digital technologies.

This event, co-organized with the ATLAS Network will feature three prominent women in international law. Coming from different professional backgrounds, they will share their experience and advice through an interactive discussion.

The first Annual Conference of the Geneva Human Rights Platform will focus on the connectivity of human rights mechanisms.

This event marks the launch of our new publication which addresses the handling of individual communications and tackles question related to the efficiency in handing them.

We are delighted to invite all our alumni for the 2019 Alumni Gathering that will take place on Saturday 25 May 2019 in Geneva!

Moving beyond the philosophical question of whether anything can be apprehended as universal in our multicultural world, this panel discussion will focus on the legitimacy and the effectiveness of the multiplication of new rights.

In this launch event, key experts will comment and dialogue with Professor Sassòli on specific aspects of his new book.