4 September 2025, 18:00-19:30
Register start 25 August 2025
Register end 4 September 2025
Human Rights Conversations
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In a complex and rapidly evolving global landscape, the work of UN Special Procedures mandates increasingly overlaps thematically and operationally. Strengthening collaboration between mandate holders is essential to address cross-cutting human rights challenges more effectively. Additionally, the support the mandates receive via OHCHR is limited and in times of budgetary and political crisis at the UN in general and the human rights pillar in particular, it is even threatened to shrink.
At the same time, academic institutions and researchers offer critical tools—such as legal analysis, policy briefs, and thematic research—that can directly inform and support the mandates' work. This Human Rights Conversation, co-hosted by the Geneva Human Rights Platform and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, seeks to explore how cross-mandate cooperation can be enhanced, and how academia can play a more strategic and aligned role in supporting mandate holders through evidence-based, policy-relevant contributions, albeit respecting the specific roles of Special Procedures and the rules set by the UN on their functioning.
The event will be followed by a light cocktail.
News
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News
Geneva Academy
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Training
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Project
Adobe
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Project
ICRC
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Publication
Geneva Academy
Publication
Geneva Academy