Sonntag, 7. Mai 2017

12/5/2017, Geneva: Human rights: Enhancing equal citizenship rights in education



The Geneva Centre to co-host panel debate on enhancing equal citizenship rights in education

GENEVA, 4 May 2017 - The Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue (“The Geneva Centre”) will convene, in cooperation with the UNESCO Liaison Office in Geneva, the International Bureau of Education (IBE) - UNESCO and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Nations Office in Geneva, a panel discussion aimed at reviewing the role of education in enhancing equality of citizenship rights and diversity within communities affected by inter-communal civil strife.
The panel discussion, entitled “Human rights: Enhancing equal citizenship rights in education”, will take place on Friday 12 May 2017, from 12:00 to 14:00, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva (Room XII).
It will be organized at the sidelines of the 27th session of the Universal Periodic Review under the Human Rights Council, scheduled to take place from 1 to 12 May 2017.
The Chairman of the Geneva Centre’s Board of Management, H. E. Dr. Hanif Al Qassim, the Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office, Mr. Abdulaziz Almuazaini, and the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Nations Office in Geneva, H. E. Ambassador Yusuf Abdulkarim Bucheeri, will deliver inaugural addresses.
The panel will consist of experts with extensive knowledge in the field of education, particularly in post-conflict situations and reconciliation in community settings. The following panel members will participate at the panel session:
  • Dr. Fawzi Rahman Al Jowder, Acting Undersecretary for Education and Curricular Affairs at the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Bahrain;
  • Dr. Ana Maria Velasquez, Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia);
  • Prof. Sunethra Karunaratne, Former Professor at University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka);
  • Mr. Renato Opertti, Senior Programme Specialist at IBE-UNESCO;
  • Prof. Osman El-Hajjé, Vice-President of Ius Primi Viri and President of the Human Rights Centre of Jinan University (Lebanon);
  • Ms. Kristina Kaihari, Counsellor of Education - History and Citizenship Education at the National Agency of Education (Finland);
  • Mrs. Samar Kildani, the National Director of the El Hassan Youth Award in Jordan, will be the discussant of the meeting.
The focus of the panel discussion will be on three case studies - Bahrain, Colombia, and Sri Lanka - to assess their respective attempts to promote equal citizenship rights as part of human rights education in their national curricula.
The discussion will draw on the pilot expertise of Finland as a model of successful integration of human rights and citizenship values within national curricula.
The purpose of the panel debate will be to analyse the impact of training to promote equal citizenship as part of human rights training in school curricula and teaching methodologies with the broader aim of promoting a culture of peace and developing healthy, inclusive and fair societies. It aims at broadening the discussion on human rights and global citizenship education to encompass the promotion of equal and inclusive citizenship rights through education within national societies. Enhancing equal and inclusive citizenship rights fits against the backdrop of education on human rights and global citizenship, echoing at the domestic level the same ideals of a more tolerant, cohesive, and peace-driven world.
The Executive Director of the Geneva Centre Ambassador Idriss Jazairy stated that the “panel debate is a timely opportunity to discuss the role of education in promoting and in enhancing at the domestic level equal and inclusive citizenship rights. Education has the potential of playing an important role in strengthening inter-ethnic and inter-religious cooperation in societies permeated by conflict and violence. We need to further explore the transformative power of education in building societies based on the principles of peace, tolerance and social harmony.”
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About the Geneva Centre:
The Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue (“The Geneva Centre”) is a think-thank dedicated to the promotion of human rights through cross-cultural, political, religious and civilizational dialogue, and through training of the upcoming generations of  stakeholders in the Arab region. 
We work towards a value-driven human rights system, challenging politicisation and building bridges between different narratives thereon of the Global North and of the Global South.
Please visit our website at http://www.gchragd.org/
Social media:
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Dienstag, 2. Mai 2017

10/5/2017, Lausanne: Commerce et environnement - La Convention de Minamata sur le mercure


Commerce et environnement - La Convention de Minamata sur le mercure

Sophie Thirion, doctorante à la Chaire de droit international public de l'UNIL, présente ses travaux sur les tensions entre l'OMC et la nouvelle Convention de Minamata sur le mercure dans le cadre du cours "Droit international économique" du prof. Andreas R. Ziegler

Mercredi 10 mai 2017 (13h15 - 14h45) -  Lausanne, 

UNIL-Dorigny, Internef - 231

 

https://news.unil.ch/display/1493709645323

Samstag, 29. April 2017

8/5/2017: Geneva: Implementing the Rights to Water and Sanitation

LUNCH BRIEFING | DÉBAT DE MIDI

Implementing the Rights to Water and Sanitation

MONDAY 8 MAY 2017, 12:30 - 13:30
AUDITORIUM IVAN PICTET B | MAISON DE LA PAIX, GENEVA


The rights to water and sanitation enjoy increasing recognition under international law, however, the international mechanisms for implementing these rights remain largely unexplored. This session will address this question from the perspective of environmental and health law, with particular emphasis on the UN-ECE Protocol on Water and Health and its compliance committee.





Gian Luca Burci Gian Luca Burci is Adjunct Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute. He has served in the Legal Office of the World Health Organization since 1998 and was appointed WHO Legal Counsel in 2005. Professor Burci previously served as Legal Officer at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and in the United Nations Secretariat in New York.


Jorge Vinuales Jorge Vinuales is Adjunct Professor of International Law, Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge and chair of the Compliance Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on Water and Health.




Register here

8/5/2017, Geneva: Shadow World (Trade in Weapons) - Film Screeing

FILM SCREENING AND DEBATE | FILM-DÉBAT

Shadow World


MONDAY 8 MAY 2017, 18:30 - 21:00
AUDITORIUM IVAN PICTET | MAISON DE LA PAIX, GENEVA


A powerful documentary on how the international trade in weapons fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracy and creates widespread suffering.

Shadow World (2016, 94 minutes, English) will be followed by a panel discussion with:

 Keith Krause, Professor, International Relations/Political Science, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
 Riccardo Bocco, Professor, Anthropology and Sociology of Development, The Graduate Institute, Geneva (moderator)

Entry is free, but seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Summer School on "Perspectives on Regulatory Cooperation"

 Summer School on "Perspectives on Regulatory Cooperation"

June 19-23, 2017

Campus Luigi Einaudi - Turin

The Summer School on “Perspectives on Regulatory Cooperation” is organized by the Collegio Carlo Alberto. The course programme is designed to explore the normative questions raised by the emergence and the crisis of regulatory spaces that go beyond the State. The School offers participants the possibility to critically engage with mechanisms that promote regulatory cooperation across borders, the interaction between public and private bodies, their impact on democratic decision-making and on the safeguard of competing interests and values. All these issues are examined by looking both at the EU and at the international legal order, as well as from a comparative perspective.

http://www.carloalberto.org/summerschool/


19/5/2017, Geneva: The Russia – Pigs (EU) Dispute

Talking Disputes - The Russia – Pigs (EU) Dispute

AN ICTSD / WTI ADVISORS EVENT – 19 May 2017

Dear colleague,
 
The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and WTI Advisors jointly invite you to a panel discussion in Geneva on 19 May 2017.
 
The event
This event will cover the recent WTO Appellate Body ruling in the Russia – Pigs (EU) dispute (DS475). The trade row was triggered by Russia’s rejection of certain pig and pork imports from the European Union (EU) following the detection of African swine fever (ASF) in four of its member States – Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Poland. ASF is a highly contagious, lethal haemorrhagic disease affecting pigs.
 
The Appellate Body found that Russia had indeed imposed an EU bloc-wide ban on live pigs, pork, and other pig products. The Appellate Body also clarified the “regionalization” obligations of an importing Member and that of an exporting Member under the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement). The Appellate Body found that Russia failed to adapt its measures to regional conditions as required by the SPS Agreement. The Appellate Body’s findings uphold the bulk of an earlier panel’s conclusions circulated last August.
 
Following a presentation on the key findings of the Appellate Body, the experts will engage in an exchange of views on the legal and policy implications of the findings, covering international trade relations and regulatory cooperation perspectives.
 
Practical info
Venue: Room S3, World Trade Organization (WTO), Rue de Lausanne 154, 1202 Geneva.
Registration: Registration is mandatory. Please register online by COB on Wednesday 10 May 2017.
Webcast: The event will also be streamed live online on the event page. Online viewers may send questions through Twitter using the hash tag #TalkingDisputes, @ICTSDTradeLaw, @WTIAdvisors or through the comment function on the ICTSD event page. Selected questions will be read and addressed by the speakers during Q&A session.
 
We look forward to seeing you at the event.
 
Agenda
12:15 – 12:45 Lunch Reception
 
12:45 – 13:45 Panel Discussion
Presentation of the Appellate Body’s findings in Russia – Pigs (EU):
Maria ALCOVER, Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL)
Commentators:
Anait SMBATYAN, WTO Expertise Center (Moscow)
Craig VANGRASSTEK, Harvard University
Lorenza JACHIA, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
 
13:45 – 15:00 Open Discussion
 
Background
Talking Disputes (TD) is designed to allow for the discussion of specific WTO disputes by experts and interested professionals from relevant fields. One or two experts present key aspects of the case, setting the stage for a targeted discussion, and designated discussants provide substantive comments.
 
TD events are also usually streamed live online on the ICTSD web page (www.ictsd.org). Online viewers may send questions through Twitter using the hash tag #TalkingDisputes, or @ICTSDTradeLaw, @WTIAdvisors, or through the comment function on ICTSD event page. Selected questions are read and addressed by the speakers during the Q & A session.

Donnerstag, 27. April 2017

3/5/2017, Lausanne: Negotiating trade agreements with the EU: The cautionary tale of CETA (EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement)

Negotiating trade agreements with the EU: The cautionary tale of CETA (EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement)

Professor Armand de Mestral (Emeritus Professor and Jean Monnet Professor of Law, McGill University)

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (15h15 - 16h45) - Internef - 231, Université de Lausanne

Especially today many members of society ask themselves what globalization means and how its challenges can be best addressed. Is it increased nationalism and protectionism or further cooperation and integration. Megaregionals are modern agreements that normally try to use the second approach. The most recently concluded EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is a perfect example. Our speaker Professor Armand de Mestral (Emeritus Professor and Jean Monnet Professor of Law, McGill University) speaks about its challenges... The presentation is given is given in English as part of the course "Droit international économique" and the LLM Programme in International and European Economic and Commercial Law (Prof. Andreas R. Ziegler).

llm@unil.ch

https://agenda.unil.ch/display/1493276585421