12 December 2024, 18:30-20:30
Register start 1 December 2024
Register end 12 December 2024
Event
The World Youth for Climate Justice, Earthjustice, the Geneva Environment Network, the Geneva Human Rights Platform, and the Center for International Environmental Law are organizing a special event to unpack key arguments and draw lesson from the hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an Advisory Opinion on States’ obligations in respect of climate change.
Unpacking key Arguments and Drawing Lessons from a Human Rights Perspective, this event will:
A panel setting the stage with introductory remarks will be followed by a discussion among key experts with a focus on human rights dimensions of the hearings. The guided questions will focus on the relevance of human rights (focusing on specific dimensions) to addressing the two questions that the Court is set to address, and to the relevance of the upcoming Advisory Opinion for the work of human rights mechanisms and processes.
The 2025 Latsis Symposium on Science for Global Development and Humanitarian Action, organized by ETH for Development, gave prominent space to human rights issues.
Geneva Academy
The Geneva Human Rights Platform has taken its work on strengthening the international human rights system to the heart of European policymaking.
UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré
This training course will explore the origin and evolution of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and its functioning in Geneva and will focus on the nature of implementation of the UPR recommendations at the national level.
The Geneva Human Rights Platform contributes to this review process by providing expert input via different avenues, by facilitating dialogue on the review among various stakeholders, as well as by accompanying the development of a follow-up resolution to 68/268 in New York and in Geneva.
Olivier Chamard / Geneva Academy
The Treaty Body Members’ Platform connects experts in UN treaty bodies with each other as well as with Geneva-based practitioners, academics and diplomats to share expertise, exchange views on topical questions and develop synergies.
Geneva Academy
Geneva Academy