We are pleased to announce the programme for the 17th Annual Student Human Rights Conference: UN Human Rights Council: Ten Years On.
In the morning,
Dr Rosa Feedman, Senior Lecturer at Birmingham Law School, and
Mr Karim Ghezraoui, Chief Officer a.i. of the Special Procedures Branch at the UN OHCHR will give a general overview of the Council. Dr Freedman will offer an academic perspective of the Council's achievements so far and the challenges ahead, while Mr Ghezraoui's address will focus on the workings of the special procedures from a practitioner's perspective. In the afternoon,
Ms Lucy Richardson, PhD Candidate at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and former member of the New Zealand Permanent Mission to the UN, and
Ms Aoife Hegarty, Programme Manager at Universal Periodic Review Info, Geneva, will turn to another tool of the Council, namely the universal periodic review (UPR), reviewing it from a government and an NGO perspective respectively.
In addition to the plenary sessions, there will be four Student Panels. In the morning, conference participants can choose between:
- Panel 1: The political dynamics of the Council: a continuing legacy of the Commission?
- Panel 2: Case studies: UN human rights principles in action
and in the afternoon, the two concurring panels will be:
- Panel 3: From margin to centre: reporting mechanisms and the Universal Periodic Review
- Panel 4: Human rights and vulnerable groups: challenges for the UN
The
full programme can be found
here.
Tickets are available for purchase at the
UoN Online Store. A discounted early bird rate is being offered until Saturday 27 February 2016.
Posted on Thursday 11th February 2016