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Geneva Press Briefing: UNHCR, OHCHR - 18.07.25
🎦 UN Refugee Agency report on aid cuts; 🎦 Humanitarian aid and human rights situation in Suweida, Syria; 🎦 Surge in returns to Afghanistan creating multiple human rights crises; 🎦 UN Human Rights Office to open new mission in Bangladesh; 🎦 Decision of the US Justice Department.
AI for Good | Signal's Meredith Whittaker on democratic governance of AI
At the AIforGood Summit Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, warned that without strong regulation, transparency, and democratic control, AI development will remain in the hands of a powerful few — shaping our institutions, economies, and lives.
Geneva Press Briefing: UNRWA, OHCHR, WHO - 15.07.25
🎦 Situation in the occupied Palestinian territory; 🎦 Situation in Ukraine.
#GSP63 I Building Trust Together
A group of students at the 63rd Graduate Study Programme, which wrapped up at the United Nations Office at Geneva last week, looked into the issues of misinformation, disinformation, and how to rebuild trust together.
Happening at UN Geneva
Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition
The Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition is the only global moot court competition explicitly dedicated to human rights. It is co-organised by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, the Academy on Human Rights, Washington College of Law, American University, and the United Nations Human Rights Council Branch (HRCB), at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)
The Human Rights Committee is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its States parties.
The Committee’s work promotes the enjoyment of civil and political rights, resulting in numerous changes of law, policy and practice. As such, it has improved the lives of individuals in all parts of the world. It continues to strive to ensure all the civil and political rights guaranteed by the Covenant can be enjoyed in full and without discrimination, by all people.
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