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23 June 2025, 18:00-19:30
Register start 17 June 2025
Register end 23 June 2025
Event
UN Photo
The Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR) brings together independent human rights experts from the UN and regional systems to address areas of concern and cooperate on joint initiatives to enhance the protection and promotion of human rights of refugees and asylum-seekers.This roundtable, hosted by the Geneva Human Rights Platform, will provide an opportunity to discuss with the PIERR members the issue of Due Process and Human Rights of Refugees Deprived of Liberty.
In a complex international context, where persecution, conflict, human rights violations, and events disturbing public order have resulted in historically high numbers of people being forced to flee their homes, several UN and regional independent human rights experts have launched the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR) to better coordinate joint initiatives that will enhance the protection and promotion of human rights of refugees and asylum-seekers.
The PIERR aims to provide unique insights and strengthen collective advocacy on urgent issues, gaps, and opportunities in the progressive development and implementation of international and regional legal frameworks and standards which directly impact the lives of asylum-seekers and refugees.
The Platform is currently composed of the mandates of the:
News
Adobe
Our new research brief examines the complex relationship between digital technologies and their misuse in surveillance, cyberattacks, and disinformation campaigns.
News
Geneva Academy
The GHRP’s annual training equipped 19 diplomats with key insights into the UN Human Rights Council’s mechanisms and multilateral processes.
Event
Adobe Stock
This seminar explores how national mechanisms for implementation, reporting and follow-up can better integrate the capacities, data, and experiences of local and regional governments in advancing human rights implementation and reporting.
Training
Adobe
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.
Training
UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré
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.
Project
CCPR Centre
The Geneva Human Rights Platform collaborates 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.
Project
Olivier Chamard / Geneva Academy
The Treaty Body Members’ Platform connects experts in UN treaty bodies with each other as well as with Geneva-based practitioners, academics and diplomats to share expertise, exchange views on topical questions and develop synergies.
Publication
Geneva Academy
Publication
Geneva Academy
