Graduate Institute
We organize customized training courses for international organizations, NGOs, governments, National Human Rights Institutions, judges and lawyers, and the media on issues related to international humanitarian law (IHL), international human rights law, and transitional justice.
These training courses, provided by our experts, are tailored to the needs of partners and audiences. They can run from one day to a full week and take place at our headquarters, Villa Moynier, at the national level or online.
Notably, we have organized customized training courses for various governments, the European Union, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the Moroccan Interministerial Delegation for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, The New Humanitarian and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights of the University of Oslo.
Please contact us if you would like to organize training tailored to your needs.
If you wish to organize training courses related to the work of United Nations human rights mechanisms, you can contact the Training Hub of our Geneva Human Rights Platform.
Our teaching enables specialists to apply legal frameworks to complex situations and challenging processes.
Professionals who are not enrolled in the Executive Master can take individual courses to deepen their expertise in a specific issue.
Our experts are leading academics in the fields of international humanitarian law, human rights and transitional justice.
We are a leading education institution in international humanitarian law, human rights and transitional justice.
ICRC
This online short course will cover the ‘nuts and bolts’ of implementation, including national legislation, dissemination and training, and discuss the mechanisms such as the International Fact-Finding Commission, as set out in the treaties.
ICRC
This online short course focuses on the specific issues that arise in times of armed conflict regarding the respect, protection and fulfilment of human rights. It addresses key issues like the applicability of human rights in times of armed conflict; the possibilities of restricting human rights under systems of limitations and derogations; and the extraterritorial application of human rights law.
UN Photo
This online short course analyses the main international and regional norms governing the international protection of refugees. It notably examines the sources of international refugee law, including the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and their interaction with human rights law and international humanitarian law.