1 October 2024, 18:30-21:30
Register start 23 September 2024
Register end 1 October 2024
Event
Tangerine Productions
This one-night-only of the film screening 'International Adoptions: A Global Scandal' - held in parallel with the 27th session of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances and co-organized by our Geneva Human Rights Platform, the Department of International Law, the Graduate Institute, and the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, will examine the ongoing unprecedented scandal surrounding international adoption. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A session.
‘International adoption is currently at the heart of an unprecedented scandal: of the hundreds of thousands of babies adopted since the early 1950s, tens of thousands were stolen. In this documentary, we will join major investigative journalists, activists and researchers in South Korea, Sweden, France, Chile, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. A film by Christine Tournadre and Sonia Gonzalez (France). Produced by Anne Labro, Tangerine Productions, in coproduction with ARTE France, with the support of the CNC,PROCIREP-ANGOA, the Ile-de-France region. Other channels involved : RTS, RTBF, Telewizja Polska, DGP Media, TG4, Tele-Quebec.’
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Our research brief, Neurotechnology and Human Rights: An Audit of Risks, Regulatory Challenges, and Opportunities, examines the human rights implications of neurotechnology in both therapeutic and commercial applications.
Geneva Academy
Participants from six countries across the Middle East and North Africa region joined our customized training on the Geneva-based United Nations human rights mechanisms
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This evening dialogue will present the publication: International Human Rights Law: A Treatise, Cambridge University Press (2025).
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This side event will bring together stakeholders to discuss the growing concerning recurrence to short-term enforced disappearances worldwide, the challenges they pose for victims and accountability, and the preventive measures that States mu
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This training course, specifically designed for staff of city and regional governments, will explore the means and mechanisms through which local and regional governments can interact with and integrate the recommendations of international human rights bodies in their concrete work at the local level.
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This 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.
The Geneva Human Rights Platform contributes to this review process by providing expert input via different avenues, by facilitating dialogue on the review among various stakeholders, as well as by accompanying the development of a follow-up resolution to 68/268 in New York and in Geneva.