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Portrait of Dominique Luchsinger Faret>
2 May 2022
Dominique Luchsinger Faret is a lawyer in Chile, currently pursuing a PhD in human rights, democracy and international justice at the University of Valencia, where she also did her master's degree.
Her doctoral research focuses on the human right to water and sanitation and its interrelation with other economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR), including the right to food, and the protection of the environment.
She just started as Visiting Fellow at the Geneva Academy and will stay with us until July 2022.
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Carrying out a fellowship at the Geneva Academy is a great opportunity to learn and connect with high-level researchers, allowing me to expand my knowledge of human rights, with a particular focus on ESCR.
The Geneva Academy is a cosmopolitan and interesting community that offers the possibility to participate in key discussions on human rights. I will also participate as a lecturer in the training course Building Back Better: A Focus on the Right to Health and the Right to Food.
During this fellowship, the focus of my research will be on deepening the understanding of the interrelation of the right to water and sanitation and other rights such as the right to food, as well as analysing the relevance of including the right to water and sanitation in National Constitutions for its full realization. I will be taking as an example the Chilean Constitutional Convention currently in progress.
Access to water is essential to achieve almost every other human right. Consequently, the recognition and protection of the human right to water and sanitation should be a priority for all countries, but unfortunately, not every national constitution recognizes and guarantees this right.
I hope that this research will be a small contribution to highlighting the importance of full recognition of the human right to water and sanitation.
I expect to advance in my research and to learn points of view from more experienced researchers about the topics of my investigation, all of which will be very enriching.
News
The Geneva Academy has released one briefing in French and four research briefs in French, English, German, and Italian on the right to food in Geneva.
News
adobe
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new Research Brief authored by Dr. Christophe Golay, which examines the role of the United Nations Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.
Training
Participants in this training course will be introduced to the major international and regional instruments for the promotion of human rights, as well as international environmental law and its implementation and enforcement mechanisms.
Training
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.
Project
Adobe
This research will provide legal expertise to a variety of stakeholders on the implementation of the right to food, and on the right to food as a legal basis for just transformation toward sustainable food systems in Europe. It will also identify lessons learned from the 2023 recognition of the right to food in the Constitution of the Canton of Geneva.
Project
Paolo Margari
This research aims at mainstreaming the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and the protection it affords in the work of the UN Human Rights Council, its Special Procedures and Universal Periodic Review, as well as in the work of the UN General Assembly and UN treaty bodies.
Publication
Geneva Academy
Publication
Geneva Academy
