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TRIP Meeting at the Geneva Academy News

An Efficient Tool to Implement UN Treaty Bodies’ Recommendations

30 September 2019

At an expert conference co-organized with the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, 30 UN treaty body (TB) experts, academics, national and international NGOs and governmental representatives discussed the implementation of a new mechanism aimed at improving the work of UN TBs, the TRIP: Technical Review of Implementation Progress.

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Joshua Niyo holding his paper in front of the Geneva Academy News

Our Teaching Assistant Joshua Niyo Receives the Best Paper Prize at the 2019 AHRI Conference

17 September 2019

Joshua Niyo is the first recipient of this new prize for his paper ‘Legal Obligations for Armed Non-State Actors: Can IHL and IHRL Learn from Each Other?’.

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Cover page of the Guidelines News

Guidelines on Investigating Violations of IHL: Law, Policy, and Good Practice

16 September 2019

These Guidelines aim to bring much needed clarity and support for the conduct of effective investigations into violations of international humanitarian law. They are the result of a five-year project initiated in 2014 by the Geneva Academy and joined in 2017 by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Information sesssion for LLM students News

64 New Students Start their Academic Year

11 September 2019

Students of our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and MAS in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law just arrived at the Geneva Academy for a busy orientation week before courses start next week.

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Student taking notes News

Twenty Pages to Address Topical IHL and Human Rights Issues

10 September 2019

Students of our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights spent most of their summer working on their LLM papers: around 20 pages to discuss a specific issue in international humanitarian law and human rights in armed conflict.

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Student taking notes News

A Summer to Look at Key Transitional Justice Issues

10 September 2019

Students of our MAS in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law worked throughout the summer on their master’s paper, in which they addressed specific transitional justice topics.

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Dr Christophe Golay during the training course in Cambodia News

A Summer Dedicated to the Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants

9 September 2019

Our Strategic Adviser on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Senior Research Fellow Dr Christophe Golay participated this summer in a series of conferences and training courses on the implementation of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.

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Portrait of Felix Kirchmeier News

Felix Kirchmeier Named Executive Director of the Geneva Human Rights Platform

2 September 2019

As Executive Director of the new Geneva Human Rights Platform, he will notably lead the development of this new platform to anchor it in international Geneva.

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Portrait of Ibrahim Salama News

Our New Visiting Fellow: Ibrahim Salama

27 August 2019

Ibrahim Salama is the Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He just joined the Geneva Academy as Visiting Fellow and will stay with us until end of 2019.

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Photo of the UN Security Council in session News

Our Strategic Adviser on IHL Briefed the UN Security Council on the Geneva Conventions

14 August 2019

Our Strategic Adviser on international humanitarian, Dr Annyssa Bellal, has been invited to brief on 13 August – together with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer and the United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Miguel de Serpa Soares – the UN Security Council on the Geneva Conventions.

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