Past Events

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’.

In this talk, Professor Frédéric Mégret will seek to excavate an understanding of IHL as partly about protecting one’s population rather than minimizing harm to ‘other’ populations.

Based on her book’s findings, the author Professor Cécile Aptel will discuss with leading experts the key issues related to the investigation and prosecution of international crimes affecting children.

Cet événement vise à discuter les récentes conclusions et recommandations issues par le Comité des droits de l'Homme de l'ONU suite à son examen du rapport du Pérou sur les droits civils et politiques.

This IHL Talk will address – from a legal and policy perspective – the various humanitarian implications regarding the missing and forcibly disappeared migrants fleeing armed conflict.