We use various third-party cookies to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. Please use the options below to manage your cookie settings. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Please be aware, if you deny cookies, certain features of our website may not work.
This will apply to all services
Google Analytics
YouTube
Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria>
22 September 2020
The Geneva Academy team – Charlotte Volet and Sonali Wanigabaduge, enrolled in our Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law (MTJ) during the 2019–2020 academic year – successfully qualified for the oral rounds of the Nelson Mandela moot court.
Our Teaching Assistant Pavle Kilibarda is coaching the team. As such, he oversaw the team’s preparation for the written submission and is now working with Charlotte and Sonali for the oral rounds and the presentation of arguments.
In order to qualify for the oral rounds, Charlotte and Sonali had to write a long and detailed memorial, arguing two sides of a fictitious human rights litigation. They competed against other universities from the UN regional group Western Europe & Others, including Oxford and Yale.
‘We are very proud of our students who managed to pass the first round along with other top-tier universities’ explains Professor Gloria Gaggioli, Director of the Geneva Academy.
Human Rights Centre at the University of Pretoria
Human Rights Centre, University of Pretoria
The oral rounds were originally scheduled for July but had to be postponed due to the COVID–19 pandemic.
As such, the preliminary oral rounds will take place from 19-24 September and the teams that qualify will participate in the finals in December where the best 10 teams from each UN region argue two-sides of a hypothetical case on issues of international human rights law before a ‘bench’ of human rights experts and judges from international courts and tribunals.
The Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition is organized by the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, in partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Two MTJ students can participate following a competitive selection process carried out by a Geneva Academy jury. This participation forms part of the Clinical Work Track of the MTJ, aimed at providing a solid exposure to practical work and situations to MTJ students.
‘Participation in this moot court allows students to put in practice the notions and legal tools they have learned in class. For students wishing to work in transitional contexts, it is an opportunity to explore issues of redress and accountability that form part of transitions following armed conflict or massive human rights abuses’ underlines Pavle Kilibarda.
Geneva Academy
News
Geneva Academy
Cynthia Ayaa Komakec is enrolled in our Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law. In this interview, she tells about her background, the programme and what it will bring to her career.
News
ILGA World
Via its DHRTTDs Directory, the Geneva Human Rights Platform provides a comprehensive list and description of such key tools and databases. But how to navigate them? Which tool should be used for what, and by whom? This interview helps us understand better the specificities of the March highlight of the directory: ILGA World Database.
Training
Adobe
This training course will examine how the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights have been utilized to advance the concept of business respect for human rights throughout the UN system, the impact of the Guiding Principles on other international organizations, as well as the impact of standards and guidance developed by these different bodies.
Training
Adobe
Participants in this training course, made of two modules, will examine the major international and regional instruments for the promotion of human rights and the environment, familiarizing themselves with the respective implementation and enforcement mechanisms.
Project
UNAMID
This project will develop guidance to inform security, human rights and environmental debates on the linkages between environmental rights and conflict, and how their better management can serve as a tool in conflict prevention, resilience and early warning.
Project
Adobe Stock
This project addresses the human rights implications stemming from the development of neurotechnology for commercial, non-therapeutic ends, and is based on a partnership between the Geneva Academy, the Geneva University Neurocentre and the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee.
Publication
Publication
