Human Rights Conversations

The 2023 Millésime of the Vigne des Nations has been presented to the Geneva Academy by the Canton of Geneva in recognition of their work contributing to a better world.

Via its DHRTTDs Directory, the Geneva Human Rights Platform provides a comprehensive list and description of such key tools and databases. But how to navigate them? Which tool should be used for what, and by whom? This interview helps us understand better the specificities of the current highlight of the directory: The Indigenous Navigator

Follow up discussion to the first day of the public hearing of the International Court of Justice to unpack key arguments and draw lesson from the hearings.

In this online event, Salina Kafle, a human rights advocate supporting victims in their ongoing fight for justice, discusses the complexities of accountability in Nepal.

This executive course, tailored for Geneva-based diplomats and co-organized with the support of the Swiss FDFA, addresses the negotiation practices at the multilateral level, by taking the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council as an example of formal and informal negotiation and decision-making processes by an international intergovernmental body.

After having provided academic support to the negotiation of the UN Declaration for ten years, this research project focuses on the implementation of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.

This project addresses the human rights implications stemming from the development of neurotechnology for commercial, non-therapeutic ends, and is based on a partnership between the Geneva Academy, the Geneva University Neurocentre and the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee.