Past Events

This side event will explore the potentional of human technological agency being an effective means for social impact and for human rights and what more can be done to enhance international digital cooperation for the benefit of people's human rights.&

This side event during the 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, co-organized with Earthjustice, will address the issue of plastic pollution.

This panel discussion, co-organized with the Geneva Internet Platform and the United Nations Special Procedures, aims at generating debate and drawing attention to current human rights challenges in the digital sphere.

In this panel discussion, representatives from states, businesses and civil society will share their views and responses on the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights’ Gender Framework and Guidance.

This panel discussion will address what role the Human Rights Council can and should play in bolstering support for normative progress and action in defending our online civic space.

This event marks the launch in Geneva of the new book by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, UN Independent Expert on Debt and Human Rights, which discusses the responsibility of Pinochet’s economic accomplices.

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.