Past Events

This event aims to evaluate the Revised Fourth Draft Instrument on private military and security companies to strengthen accountability, align with international frameworks, and explore avenues for implementation.

This Human Rights Conversation will highlight the significance of academic freedom, explore its legal foundations, and examine the concrete threats it faces.

This event presents the a public discussion of the Maastricht Principles’ legal commentary, exploring their impact on intergenerational justice and policymaking.

Join us for a one-night-only screening of Rule Breakers, directed by two-time Oscar-winner Bill Guttentag, telling the true story of Afghanistan’s first all-girls robotics team.

This event will identify strategies to strengthen Local and Regional Government collaboration with National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up.

This side event to the HRC 58th session gives visibility to working women and the struggle to claim effective equality of their rights.

Co-organized with the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, this meeting aims to discuss alternative accountability pathways for those affected by the activities of Private Military and Security Companies.

This event, co-organized with the ATLAS network, seeks to critically examine how international crimes are investigated, documented, and prosecuted through a gender-competent lens.

This panel event explores the role that emotions play in the development, deployment, and regulation of artificial intelligence in warfare.

The opening lecture of the 2025 Spring Semester will be given by Ambassador Jürg Lauber, President of the Human Rights Council and the Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations.