Past Events

This event will discuss the role of NGOs in the international human rights system and will launch the book ‘The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs’.

Panlists will look into what UNDROP and the EU reform mean in the Croatian context, and how positive aspects of the national legislation could input the reform or, alternatively, suffer from new and more restrictive rules at the EU level.

This event, co-organized with Amnesty International, will discuss the gains made since the UDHR adoption, challenges to the international normative framework on human rights and what the international community needs to do for a better future.

This side event at the UN Habitat Assembly in Nairobi will discuss how local and regional governments localize the SDGs and fulfil human rights on the ground and their increased international visibility through the UPR.

In a conversation with our Director Professor Gloria Gaggioli, Peter Maurer will share insights from his career as the former President of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

In this Human Rights Conversation, panelists will discuss the challenges that neurotechnologies raise for the enjoyment of human rights and the current work of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on this issue.

In this book launch, co-organized with the T.M.C. Asser Institute, the book’s editors will discuss with leading experts and practitioners the state of research in the area of foreign fighters and their return.

The screening of this multi-award-winning documentary on the realities of street children in Kinshasa will be followed by a panel discussion in the presence of the documentary director.

This public roundtable will appraise the recent UN process on banning the trade in tools of torture and capital punishment and introduce the report of the UN Group of Governmental Experts.

This event marks the publication of the second, fully revised and updated, edition of ‘The UN Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. A Commentary’.