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ABOUT THIS MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
This monthly newsletter aims at keeping the Geneva Human Rights Platform’s audience informed about our activities, upcoming events and key human rights discussions in Geneva and beyond. It will notably be of interest to those following multilateral discussions related to the promotion and protection of human rights and the development of the institutional fabric of the UN’s human rights protection system.
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Lessons Learned from the Commission for the HRC Status Review
18 March 2021, 14:00–15:30, online
At this online side event during the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), John Pace, Secretary of the former UN Commission on Human Rights, will discuss his recent book The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, a Very Great Enterprise with a panel made of ambassadors, civil society and the Chief of OHCHR Council Branch.
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Human Rights Responsibilities of Armed Non-State Actors
A this online side event during the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council – co-organized with UN Special Procedures and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs – panelists discussed a recent joint statement on the human rights responsibilities of armed non-State actors issued by a large group of UN Special Procedures Mandate Holders.
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The US’ Return to the UN Human Rights Council
In this first Human Rights Conversation of the year, panelists – Mark Cassayre, Chargé d’Affairs at the US Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, Sarah Cleveland, Professor at Columbia University and Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the UN in Geneva – discussed what the US’ return to the UN Human Rights Council meant for the work of the Council and the overall promotion and protection of human rights.
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Bridging Governance Gaps in the Age of Technology: A Discussion on the State Duty to Protect
An online expert consultation, co-organized with the UN Human Rights’ B-Tech Project, discussed regulatory and policy responses to human rights challenges linked to digital technologies.
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Support to UN Special Procedures
Special Procedures face a number of challenges in the implementation of their mandates. We offers them opportunities to engage with each other and with other parts of the UN system on topics of common concern. We also support Special Rapporteurs (SR) to measure and evaluate their impact. Starting from an initial conference attended by more than 20 SRs, we will continue the discussions on how they could integrate common evaluation tools to facilitate benchmarking and heighten the visibility of their impact.
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Local Implementation of Global Human Rights
We collaborate with a series of actors to reflect on the implementation of international human rights norms at the local level and propose solutions to improve uptake of recommendations and decisions taken by Geneva-based human rights bodies at the local level.
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The Treaty Body Impact Database 2020+: A ‘First Stop’ for Research on the Impact of the Treaty System Worldwide
In collaboration with the University of Pretoria, the GHRP is taking part in the Pretoria UN human rights treaties impact study, aimed at making the entire system more accessible – not only in relation to what happens in Geneva, where the treaty bodies are based, but also highlighting the difference that the system makes where it matters, on the ground. We are notably engaging in a multi-stakeholder process to establish an open access database that will contain the primary documentation of the impact of the treaty system in all countries in the world.
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Roosevelt’s ‘Four Freedoms’ Weren't Just an American Idea
On the anniversary of US President Roosevelt’s era-defining speech, GHRP Advisory Board Member Miloon Kothari published a fascinating analysis of one of the foundations of the modern articulation of human rights, which greatly influenced the text of the Atlantic Charter, the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
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AHRI 2021 Annual Conference on Human Rights Strategies
On 27–28 August 2021, the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights and the Maastricht University Faculty of Law will host the 2021 Annual Conference of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI). The theme of the conference – Human Rights Strategies – opens up the possibility to discuss all kinds of strategies used by various actors to further the cause of human rights The GHRP develops this topic via various initiatives, notably the one on the local implementation of global human rights.
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The Guardian Launches New Series on Human Rights
Rights and Freedom is a two-year reporting project focused on investigating and exposing human rights abuses around the world and elevating the voices of those working on the frontline and in their own communities to protect rights and freedom.
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals
14–18 June 2021, online
This training course explores the relationship between economic, social and cultural rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and provides participants with practical tools to include ESCR and the SDGs in their work.
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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
6–10 September 2021, online
From its adoption to its content and implementation, this training course provides a comprehensive overview of the United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants, as well as tools to protect and promote the rights of peasants, rural women, fisher, pastoralist and nomadic communities, as well as agricultural workers.
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