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Miloon Kothari is a renowned human rights and social policy expert with extensive teaching and training experience on the United Nations (UN) human rights system and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
He is the founding member of the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR), one of the world’s leading national coalitions on the UPR. He is also the President of UPR Info and has conducted training in numerous countries on the UPR with civil society organizations, UN agencies, NHRIs, governmental bodies and diplomats.
He is also a member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
Miloon Kothari was the first UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing. He has published widely on issues such as the UPR, housing and land rights, gender, forced evictions, globalization and its impact on human rights and the environment, civil society and trade. He regularly advises governments, UN agencies, research organizations and international and national civil society organizations on the UN human rights system, the UPR, as well as other human rights issues.
An architect by training, Miloon Kothari graduated from the Pratt Institute, Columbia University and the Maharaja Sayajirao University. He has been a Guest Professor and Visiting Scholar to numerous Universities and Institutions, including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
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TrainingThis 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.
CCPR centre
TrainingThis training course will delve into the means and mechanisms through which national actors can best coordinate their human rights monitoring and implementation efforts, enabling them to strategically navigate the UN human rights system and use the various mechanisms available in their day-to-day work.
The Geneva Academy’s “Protecting Human Rights and the Environment” course is incredibly well-rounded, featuring lectures and interactive sessions with experts in the field of human rights and the environment – from the course’s lead trainer, Ludovica Chiussi Curzi, an environmental and human rights lawyer involved in many landmark cases past and present to environmental treaty negotiators, academic specialists, civil society leaders and UN officials currently shaping the human rights and environment regime. Getting a handle on the relevant international institutions, instruments and mechanisms in the rapidly changing world of human rights and environmental law can be a bit daunting but I felt fully capable of engaging intelligently in discussions touching on both subjects after completing the course. I would recommend this course to lawyers and non-lawyers alike!
