12 December 2024, 18:30-20:30
Register start 1 December 2024
Register end 12 December 2024
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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.
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The Geneva Human Rights Platform has taken its work on strengthening the international human rights system to the heart of European policymaking.
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Sixteen diplomats from fifteen Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries participated in a two-day Practical Training on Human Rights Council Procedures.
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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.
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