12 December 2024, 18:30-20:30
Register start 1 December 2024
Register end 12 December 2024
Event
The World Youth for Climate Justice, Earthjustice, the Geneva Environment Network, the Geneva Human Rights Platform, and the Center for International Environmental Law are organizing a special event to unpack key arguments and draw lesson from the hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an Advisory Opinion on States’ obligations in respect of climate change.
Unpacking key Arguments and Drawing Lessons from a Human Rights Perspective, this event will:
A panel setting the stage with introductory remarks will be followed by a discussion among key experts with a focus on human rights dimensions of the hearings. The guided questions will focus on the relevance of human rights (focusing on specific dimensions) to addressing the two questions that the Court is set to address, and to the relevance of the upcoming Advisory Opinion for the work of human rights mechanisms and processes.
Geneva Academy
The Geneva Human Rights Platform has taken its work on strengthening the international human rights system to the heart of European policymaking.
Adobe
A new working paper, 'AI Decoded: Key Concepts and Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Human Rights and SDG Monitoring', has been published by the Geneva Human Rights Platform.
Adobe Stock
The event, as part of the AI for Good Summit 2025 will explore how AI tools can support faster data analysis, help uncover patterns in large datasets, and expand the reach of human rights work.
UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré
This training course will explore the origin and evolution of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and its functioning in Geneva and will focus on the nature of implementation of the UPR recommendations at the national level.
ICRC
Participants in this training course will gain practical insights into UN human rights mechanisms and their role in environmental protection and learn about how to address the interplay between international human rights and environmental law, and explore environmental litigation paths.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin
The IHL-EP works to strengthen the capacity of human rights mechanisms to incorporate IHL into their work in an efficacious and comprehensive manner. By so doing, it aims to address the normative and practical challenges that human rights bodies encounter when dealing with cases in which IHL applies.
UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré
A series of events aimed at discussing contemporary issues and challenges related to the promotion and protection of human rights in Geneva and beyond.
Geneva Academy
Geneva Academy