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📢 We're excited to announce our new
#podcast
series ‘Women in International Law’, produced with
@atlas_women
, that showcases
#women
with diverse experiences and
#career
paths in the field!
Learn more 🎙
Listen to the trailer 🎧
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We are very pleased to announce that Professor
@GaggioliGloria
is our new
#Director
!
She replaces Professor Marco Sassòli who will continue to teach courses in our
#LLM
and
#ExecutiveMaster
.
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Great resource! We will definitely keep it for incoming students of our
#LLM
in
#IHL
and
#HumanRights
and
#MAS
in
#TransitionalJustice
!
For those of you starting the school year, here's the annual bump of my basic guide about research in international law :)
Download here:
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📢Just out!
New book by our Swiss
#IHL
Chair Professor
@marcoroscini
in which he dissects the principle of
#nonintervention
and explores what constitutes an 'intervention' in
#internationallaw
and when interventions are unlawful.
Learn more:
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Oxford University Press is offering free access to a range of articles on
#IHL
and international
#humanrights
law throughout August 2018. Perfect for our upcoming and past students!
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📢We're also looking for four Home-Based Researchers to support a project on the state of
#IHL
implementation in current
#armedconflicts
to cover Asia-Pacific, Middle East/North Africa, Africa & Central-South Americas.
Learn more and apply:
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📢Our new publication details the jurisprudence of the UN Committee on
#EnforcedDiappearances
on 32 issues, including transnational
#disappearances
, disappearances committed by non-State actors, the duty to investigate or the right to truth
Learn more ▶️
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Congratulations to Professor Marco Sassòli who has been named Special Advisor in international
#humanitarian
law to the Prosecutor of the
@IntlCrimCourt
!
#IHL
#ICC
#ICL
#WarCrimes
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Our 2018
#WarReport
by
@AnnyssaBellal
is out!
In 2018, 69
#armedconflicts
occurred in 30 states & territories. Out of these, 51 are NIACs.
To learn more, read the articles on
#militaryoccupations
&
#gangviolence
and download the 2018 edition:
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📢For early career researchers!
✍️ Call for paper for our 2023 Current Issues in Armed Conflict Conference co-organized with
@UoEConflictHub
.
🗓️Deadline: 25 August.
Learn more:
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Our
#Students
: Ely Cossio from
#Colombia
is enrolled in our
#MAS
in
#TransitionalJustice
.
Prior to coming to
#Geneva
, she worked with the Colombian Truth Commission &
@DPLF_info
.
Discover what she tells about the programme!
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Professor Marco Sassòli is the new Director of the Geneva Academy! He replaces Robert Roth who is retiring after four years of dedicated leadership.
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👏👏Congratulations to our
#LLM
Faculty member Professor Gabriella Citroni, elected to the
#UN
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary
#Disappearances
!
A recognition of her expertise on this issue & of her commitment to addressing this global problem.
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Must Read: New book by our Director Professor Marco Sassòli, which focuses on controversial issues and on the challenges facing the implementation of
#IHL
in practice:
Launched today at
@asilorg
Annual Meeting in
#WashingtonDC
!
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📣The Guidelines on Investigating Violations of
#IHL
– published w/
@ICRC
– are now also available in Arabic, French, Spanish & Russian!
They provide guidance to States and those seeking a more detailed understanding of investigations in
#armedconflict
.
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Our
#faculty
member Professor Paola Gaeta will give next July a Summer School course
@HagueAcademy
on
#genocide
and the dual
#responsibility
of the state and the individual.
Learn more:
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Professor Marco Sassòli has been appointed as one of three experts – along with Professor Wolfgang Benedek and Professor Veronika Bílková – on a
@osce_odihr
mission to investigate violations of
#IHL
and
#HumanRights
in
#Ukraine
.
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Must read:
Get your hands on the chapter from our Research Fellow Domenico Zipoli on national
#humanrights
systems in the new
@Elgar_Law
'Research Handbook on the Politics of International Human Rights Law' for persuasive analysis!
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The
@OUPLaw
Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law – edited by
@profbensaul
and Dapo Akande – is out!
Proud that six out of the 18 chapters have been written or co-written by Geneva Academy’s professors or experts!
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It is with great sadness that we learned about the passing of Christof Heyns.
We will miss him as a professor, a human rights expert, an academic and a friend.
He was an incredible force of inspiration for all of us here – students, professors & researchers.
It is with great shock, bereavement and sadness that the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) has received the news of the passing today (28 March 2021) of one of its internationally esteemed and stalwart colleagues and friends, Professor Christof Heyns.
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The
#GenevaConventions
turn 70 today!
Our Director, Professor Marco Sassòli
@UNIGEnews
, discusses their importance and our contribution to their implementation
#GC70
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Very pleased to have
@NiAolainF
joining us at the Geneva Academy as Visiting Fellow until June!
She will complete, during her time with us, a monograph on the law of
#occupation
focused on the
#gender
dimensions of occupation.
Learn more:
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A
#MustRead
: Our
#faculty
member Professor Paola Gaeta co-edited, with Marta Bo a special issue of the
@CUP_Law
Journal of International Criminal Justice on
#AutonomousWeaponSystems
and
#WarCrimes
!
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Congratulations to the co-directors of our
#TransitionalJustice
Master
@haldemann_frank
&
@ThomasUnger3
for their
@OUPAcademic
Commentary on the
#UN
Principles to Combat
#Impunity
! A must read for those working on
transitional justice
#humanrights
#ICL
!
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Must read: Exchange of emails in Honour of William Schabas by our two Professors Andrew Clapham and Paola Gaeta over whether states parties to the Torture Convention are obliged to criminalize in domestic law the crime of
#torture
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Good news: Our photo exhibition on
#Disability
and
#ArmedConflict
with
@gilesduley
will run until 3 June!
One week left to visit it!
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@GenevaAcademy
and the
@ICRC
are organizing – in the context of our
#Digitalization
of
#Conflict
joint initiative – a
#student
essay
#competition
open to all undergraduate students from across the world.
The deadline for submissions is Monday 31 May 2021.
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On our RULAC online portal, we conclude that
#Mexico
& the
#JaliscoCartel
New Generation are parties to a non-international
#armedconflict
& that therefore
#IHL
applies to the armed confrontations between this cartel and Mexico:
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#Research
Our new publication looks at state responsibility for
#humanrights
violations committed by
#armedgroups
in the state's territory
Learn more and download the publication:
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#MustRead
: our new publication details the contours and next steps – notably at
#UNGA
&
#HRC
– on the right to a healthy
#environment
.
Learn more and download:
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We are launching today a one-month
#crowdfunding
camapaign to fund
#scholarships
for our
#LLM
in
#IHL
and
#HumanRights
and
#MAS
in
#TransitionalJustice
!
Every contribution counts! Help us spread the word and change someone's life and career!
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2020 was a difficult year for all of us. We have today a special thought for our students, staff, partners & donors: thanks to you, we could continue our work during these difficult times!
We look forward to 2021 & wish you all a lovely holiday season & all the best for 2021!
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Congratulations to Professor Andrew Clapham, appointed to serve on the
#UN
Commission on
#HumanRights
in
#SouthSudan
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Proud to be in the
@llmguide
top 10 list of
#LLM
programmes in
#humanrights
law!
Great recognition for our LLM in
#IHL
and Human Rights & our
#MAS
in
#TransitionalJustice
, Human Rights and the
#RuleofLaw
!
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📢Professor
@marcoroscini
is our new🇨🇭
#IHL
Chair!
He will work on disruptive
#military
technologies, including on our joint initiative on the
#digitalization
of
#armedconflict
with the
@ICRC
.
Learn more:
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Our
#WarReport
2017 is out!
The analysis of the 55
#armedconflicts
that took place in 2017 highlights two salient features: the multiplication of armed non-state actors (
#ANSAs
) and unprecedented casualties linked to
#armedgang
violence.
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The
#GenevaConventions
turn 70 today!
Very proud of having contributed to today’s
@ICRC
highlight that shows, via examples we elaborated, the pivotal role of the Geneva Conventions for the protection of people affected by
#armedconflicts
#GC70
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🎙️Listen to the 2nd episode of
#women
in
#internationallaw
w/
@atlas_women
!
@AparacJelena
discusses her
#career
in
#humanrights
advocacy with
@PaigeMorrowLaw
.
🎧On SoundCloud and all the other
#podcast
platforms!
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Read the full speech of our Strategic Adviser on
#IHL
@AnnyssaBellal
before the
#UN
Security Council on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the
#GenevaConventions
:
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👏👏👏Congratulations to our former Teaching Assistant and
#LLM
#alumnus
@G_Dvaladze
who defended his
#PhD
thesis ‘
#Equality
and non-discrimination in
#armed
conflict’, written under the supervision of Professor Marco Sassòli at
@UNIGEnews
, with magna cum laude distinction!
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We've been granted leave by
@ECHR_CEDH
to intervene as a third party in
#Ukraine
and the
#Netherlands
v.
#Russia
.
We submitted our third-party intervention on 28 April 2023!
Learn more and read it ⚖️
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⏰Join us next Monday (9 October) for the opening lecture of the academic year with Professor
@HeleneTigroudja
on international
#humanrights
courts and
#armedconflicts
.
Learn more and register to attend:
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Photographer
@gilesduley
will take over our
#Instagram
account as of Sunday to tell you more about his work on
#disability
&
#armedconflict
and our joint exhibition on Quai Wilson in Geneva (until 30 May), which coincides with the release of our report on this issue!
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‘The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary’, edited by Professors Andrew Clapham, Paola Gaeta, and Marco Sassòli and conducted under the auspices of the Geneva Academy is now available in Paperback!
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📢 We are excited to announce the launch of a new project consisting of the publication of a yearly global annual report assessing compliance with international humanitarian law (
#IHL
) in contemporary
#armedconflicts
.
Learn more ➡
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Join us
#online
on 7 July for our
#IHLTalk
on the protection of the
#environment
in
#armedconflicts
.
Panelists will discuss the related
#internationallaw
rules, initiatives to clarify or reinforce them & criminalization of prohibited behaviours:
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Our
#LLM
is one of the most innovative and intellectually challenging programmes in
#IHL
and
#HumanRightsoffered
today.
A key stepping stone to work in the
#humanitarian
and human rights field.
ttps://www.geneva-academy.ch/masters/ll-m/overview
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📣We start tomorrow a four weeks
#Quiz
on our Rule of Law in Armed Conflict (
#RULAC
) online portal!
The occasion to test your knowledge on contemporary
#armedconflicts
and learn more about this unique tool!
Stay tuned!
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The
@ConcoursPictet
will start in less than a month: as in previous years, we will have a team participating in the Anglophone Edition.
Meet one of the team members, Chiemelie Michael Agu from
#Nigeria
, and stay tuned for the other team portraits!
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For university lecturers & professors who want to mark the 70th anniversary of the
#GenevaConventions
:
New
#ICRC
teaching outline for 2 courses on the Geneva Conventions
#GC70
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Welcome to Professor Claudia Martin who joins us as a Visiting Research Fellow!
During her time with us, she will be working on a paper on avenues for
#redress
&
#accountability
@CorteIDH
for gross
#humanrights
violations.
Learn more:
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👏👏👏Congratulations to our three graduating students Yulia Mogutova, Berta Fernández-Rosón &
@CamRuizS
who received the 2020
@PrixHenryDunant
, the 2020 Best
#LLM
Paper Prize and the 2020 Best
#MAS
in
#TransitionaJustice
Paper Prize!
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#MustRead
: new paper by our Researcher
@Mx_Emilie
in which she examines
#IHL
implementation through
#HumanRights
mechanisms:
Will provide background info to a colloquium at the upcoming
@UNIGEnews
2019 Geneva Human Rights week:
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📣5 March (13:00-14:30):
Join us for an
#online
side event at
#HRC46
to discuss the
#humanrights
responsibilities of
#armedgroups
, notably in light of the recent statement issued by
#UN
Special Procedures.
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It was great to hear what
#children
say about their participation in the work of
#UN
#HumanRights
mechanisms at our
#GenevaHumanRightsPlatform
's first
#HumanRightsConversation
of the year!
If you missed this event, stay tuned as we will publish the recordings soon!
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💡
#MustRead
: new
@hartpublishing
book by our Research Fellow
@RedaelliChiara
in which she investigates the extent to which traditional
#internationallaw
regulating foreign interventions in internal
#conflicts
has been affected by the
#humanrights
paradigm
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📣Just Out! 📣
Our new Working Paper that analyses the contribution of
#UN
#humanrights
mechanisms in preventing and addressing
#enforceddisappearances
in the context of international
#migration
.
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Our new publication on
#disability
and
#armedconflict
by
@AlicePriddy
is out!
To learn more and download the publication:
Launch event on Thursday 9 May (18:00) at the ICRC/Humanitarium!
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We aim at raising funds to support talented
#students
with limited means and resources to study at the Geneva Academy.
Join our
#crowdfunding
campaign for
#scholarships
and contribute to change someone’s life and
#career
!
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🗓️SAVE THE DATE!
Join us
#online
on 26 May to discuss innovative approaches to ensure compliance with
#IHL
w/
@Mx_Emilie
,
@emilianobuis
,
@IoanaCismas
and
@KatharineFortin
!
Co-organized with
@CAHRyork
More info:
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➡️How the
#UN
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (
#UNGPs
) have been used throughout the
#UN
system?
➡️What is their impact in advancing
#business
respect for
#humanrights
?
Join our training course given by
@TaraVanHo
&
@ARamasastry
!
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We've updated our
#RULAC
entry on
#Israel
&
#Palestine
following the brutal attacks carried out by
#Hamas
and the Palestinian
#IslamicJihad
and Israel’s subsequent Iron Sword operation.
Our Research Fellow Dr Eugénie Duss tells us more about this:
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🎉Celebrating our 15th Anniversary: our team at the Mont-Blanc bridge, with the Geneva Academy's flags in the background
#GAFlags
!
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (
#UDHR
) celebrates this year its 75th anniversary
#UDHR75
!
Join us &
@amnesty
to discuss its relevance for the next 75 years & for future
#humanrights
challenges
Next week in Geneva
@GVAGrad
or online:
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Major step towards clearer rules on who is liable for what: new
@CUP_Law
book based on research undertaken at the Geneva Academy clarifies the conditions of accountability for
#InternationalCrimes
#ICL
Launch Wednesday in The Hague & on 29 Oct in Geneva!
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🗓️Join us on 10 October at lunchtime for the launch of
@Ezequiel_Heffes
and
@KatharineFortin
new volume ‘
#ArmedGroups
and
#InternationalLaw
. In the Shadowland of Legality and Illegality’.
Learn more and register to attend ➡️
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Proud of our
#alumni
Ezequiel Heffes & Manuel Ventura for their new book on
#IHL
& non-state actors.
Other alumni &
#Faculty
members contributed:
@AnnyssaBellal
,
@NaderiskDiab
, Brian Frenkel, Martina Gasser,
@JHenckaertsICRC
,
@ilya_nuzov
& Anne Quintin
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Just out!
@OUPLaw
Lieber Studies Volume on
#POWs
in Contemporary
#Conflict
edited by
@Schmitt_ILaw
& Christopher Koschnitzky
With a chapter on the detention of suspected
#terrorists
written by our Director
@GaggioliGloria
& our
#alumnus
Pavle Kilibarda.
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The
#GenevaConventions
turned 69!
‘The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary’ published by
@OUPIntLaw
and realized under the auspices of the Geneva Academy explains how these conventions should be interpreted today
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👏👏👏So proud!
8
#alumni
– 6 from our
#LLM
& 2 from our
#MAS
in
#TransitionalJustice
– published an article in the edition of the
@ICRC
International Review that features emerging voices in
#IHL
,
#humanitarian
law, policy and action!
Learn more:
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Very proud of our Senior
#Research
Fellow & Strategic Adviser on
#ESCR
Dr Christophe Golay who has been shortlisted for the position of
#UN
Special Rapporteur on the
#RighttoFood
!
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📢Friday 24 September at 18:15: Book launch of Professor Andrew Clapham's new book ‘War’ at the Geneva Academy and online!
Learn more and register ➡️
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Timely reading related to
#ISIS
#combatants
return: our 2014 publication ‘
#ForeignFighters
under
#InternationalLaw
’ notably covers their status in
#armedconflict
; prosecution; diplomatic protection of captured foreign fighters & revocation of citizenship
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Welcome to our new Visiting Fellow, Dr Amna Nazir, Lecturer in Law/Associate Director of the Centre for
#HumanRights
@MyBCU
!
Great to welcome new Visiting Fellows, albeit remotely!
Discover her research focus during her time at the Geneva Academy:
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📢 We are looking for a researcher to lead a major research project dedicated to strengthening the analysis and knowledge of the state of
#IHL
implementation in current
#armedconflicts
.
Learn more and apply before 29 January 2024:
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📢Join us for the launch of
@cecile_aptel
new book ‘Atrocity Crimes, Children and International Criminal Courts’ in which she shows how international criminal courts have paid limited & inconsistent attention to
#atrocitycrimes
affecting
#children
.
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#CallforPaper
: The Journal of International Criminal Justice
@OUPIntLaw
invites submissions for an upcoming special publication on
#Justice
and
#Accountability
for
#SexualViolence
in
#Conflict
.
Learn more:
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📢Call for Papers: for the third edition of the Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Humanitario that will be published in October 2022.
Deadline: 28 February, more info here▶️
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👏👏Thrilled that our
#faculty
members Robert Kolb & Jerome de Hemptinne (along w/Anne Peters) won the
@esil_sedi
2023 Collaborative Book Prize for their book 📚 'Animals in the International Law of Armed Conflict'!
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Our Director Professor Marco Sassòli, our Strategic Adviser on
#IHL
@AnnyssaBellal
and Lindsay Cameron
@ICRC
discuss the relevance of the
#GenevaConventions
with
@martinafuchscnn
@CNNMoneyCH
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🥳Did you know that we celebrate this year our 15th Anniversary? At 15, we still feel young & full of energy, but also very proud of what we accomplished so far!
Stay tuned as more will come about this important milestone: photo archives, testimonials and of course celebrations!
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📣The entire text of
@abclapham
– one of our former directors and a member of our
#faculty
– new book ‘War’ is now available through the
@OUPLaw
site
#war
▶️
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📌New
@OUPLaw
book by our former Director &
#Faculty
member Professor Andrew Clapham!
About the relevance of the concept of war & how our notions about war continue to influence how we conceive rights & obligations in national &
#internationallaw
.
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#MustRead
: New blog post by our Swiss
#HumanRights
Chair and
#UN
Special Rapporteur on torture
@NilsMelzer
& our Associate Research Fellow
@StevenJBarela
👇
In the sordid catalogue of
#torture
, the psychological form is particularly insidious.
In advance of the UN’s
#TortureVictimsDay2021
,
@NilsMelzer
and
@StevenJBarela
write about guarding against slippery slopes conducive to this type of abuse.
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Very pleased to introduce our 2021
@ConcoursPictet
team!
Tamara Aburamadan, Stephanie Mutasa & Mina Radoncic – enrolled in our
#LLM
in
#IHL
&
#HumanRights
– will represent the Geneva Academy at the 2021 Edition from 3 to10 April 2021 in Durrës, Albania.
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Welcome to the 78
#students
– in
#Geneva
&
#online
– of our
#LLM
in
#IHL
&
#HumanRights
/MAS in
#TransitionalJustice
!
A diverse group of talented individuals coming from more than 30 different countries.
We look forward to working with you this year!
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Our new publication on
#UN
#TreatyBodies
’ individual communication procedures is out!
To learn more and download it:
Don't miss the launch event on 31 May (10:30-12:00) at our place!
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📌Join us on 6 February in
#Geneva
or
#online
for our first Human Rights Conversation of the year to discuss
#child
participation in the work of
#UN
#HumanRights
mechanisms.
Learn more and register:
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Full room at our event w/the
#UN
Special Rapporteur on
#HumanRights
&
#counterterrorism
@NiAolainF
on the situation of the 65,000 foreign & Syrian men, women & children detained in North-East
#Syria
in prisons, camps & other detention centres, of which 42,000 are foreigners.
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The
#UN
Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights is drafting a General Comment on
#land
.
Join us
#online
on 11 May at 14:30 (CET) to discuss the draft and how it notably relates to the UN Declarations on the
#rightsofpeasants
&
#IndigenousPeoples
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Join us on 20 April 2021 at lunchtime for our second
@atlas_women
event of the year with:
- Lindsay Cameron, Head of Thematic Unit,
@ICRC
Legal Division
-
@DKAYEMBE
, Rector at the University of Edinburgh
-
@vickiprais
, Human Rights Consultant and Lawyer
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