10 more years to achieve #SDGs!!! We started with #MDGs, continued with #SDGs and I, for one, am looking forward to 2030, when we wake up to reality and hopefully come with #RDGs - Realistic Development Goals. #CynicMonday - cannot help - sorry!
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Master students in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law , joint centre of & . Class of 2018/2019
Geneva Joined October 2018
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Proud of Luisa Gómez, former #MAS in #TransitionalJustice #student, who co-authored this report on #reparations for #victims of the #armedconflict in #Guatemala
The outcome of the programme #research #internship carried out w/Clara Sandoval bit.ly/2oRRxWe
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Watch the 2019 #GraduationCeremony of our #LLM in #IHL & #HumanRights, #MAS in #TransitionalJustice & #ExecutiveMaster in International Law in #ArmedConflict.
👏👏 to our #students & many thanks to our alumnus for his inspiring speech!
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Congratulations 🥳🥳 to our graduating #students
➡️Lizaveta Tarasevich who received the 2019 #HenryDunant Research Prize
➡️Zoi Lafazani who received the 2019 Best #LLM Paper Prize
➡️Valeria Reyes Menendez who received the 2019 Best #MTJ Paper Prize
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We are pleased to publish our new report on #reparations - 'A Promise to be Fulfilled: Reparations for Victims of the Armed Conflict in #Guatemala' by Denis Martínez and Luisa Gómez - available in English and Spanish:
reparations.qub.ac.uk/report-a-promi
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#MustRead: New book on the Inter-American #HumanRights System co-authored by Professor Clara Sandoval who teaches a course on #victims' perspectives in our #MAS in #TransitionalJustice
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Students of our #MAS in #TransitionalJustice who attended this year’s #academic track developed #research proposals on a variety of transitional justice issues, often addressing new approaches and under-explored perspectives!
Learn more: bit.ly/2IdXJPc
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Join us on 3 June at #GenevaHumanRightsPlatform Annual Conference!
The 1st panel, organized by in partnership w/ & will discuss & compare the following mechanisms: #TreatyBodies, #UPR & #WTO Trade Policy
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#GenevaHumanRightsPlatform Annual Conference (3 June):
The first panel, organized in partnership w/@UNTBNet @UPRinfo & @MaastrichtU will discuss & compare the following mechanisms: #TreatyBodies, #UPR and #WTO Trade Policy
Look at the concept note: bit.ly/2VIBbJY
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The programme of the 3rd Current Issues in #ArmedConflict Conference, co-organized w/ is online!
Discover the 4 panels with academics & practitioners on #ICL, #TransitionalJustice, classification of #armedconflict & conduct of #hostilities
bit.ly/2WohhrS
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Howard Varney, Senior Programme Adviser accompanied #students of our #MAS in #TransitionalJustice who had to design a #truthcommission mandate. He tells us about this experience!
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During three days, students of our #MAS in #TransitionalJustice immersed, via a practical exercise and in the context of the 2019 Spring School, in the design and establishment of a #truthcommission to address past #humanrights abuses bit.ly/2Htza02
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Join us for a public meeting in our Friday series on 31 May 2019. We will launch our new publication on Treaty Bodies' Individual Communications. More info see: geneva-academy.ch/event/all-even
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Photographer will take over our #Instagram account as of Sunday to tell you more about his work on #disability & #armedconflict and our joint exhibition on Quai Wilson in Geneva (until 30 May), which coincides with the release of our report on this issue!
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Available NOW: Final versions of the #TransitionalJustice Policy: au.int/en/documents/2 - #TJinAfrica @AUC_DPA #TransitionalJustice
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Don't forget to join us on Tuesday at 18:30 for the last screening of the ‘Uncommon Trials’ trilogy with the film ‘La vengeance des Arméniens, le procès Tehlirian’ unige.ch/droit/trilogie
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Save the Date!
The first Annual Conference of the #GenevaHumanRightsPlatform will focus on the connectivity of #humanrights mechanisms.
You can already register on our website to attend and the full programme will follow shortly! bit.ly/2UnYkAq
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Transitional Justice Café with our honourable guest speaker Pablo De Greiff - the former UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence. Discussing the goals of #TransitionalJustice
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Spring School Day 2: Reporting back, presenting and beginning the discussions in a moot truth commission #truthcommission
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#Studytrip: #Students of our #MAS in #TransitionalJustice, #HumanRights, and the #RuleofLaw spent 3 days in #Poland to look into transitional justice issues and see how the country has been deadline with its #Holocaust and #Communist past bit.ly/2Vesl7k
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It is a Good Morning! We off to a good start with our #Springschool “Confronting the Truth: the Functions and Practices of Truth Commissions”
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Uncommon Trials Trilogy w/ &
Join us on 4 April (18:30-21:00) for the #screening of the film ‘Le Tribunal sur le #Congo’ by Milo Rau, which investigates the 20-year #DRC conflict, hearing from victims, politicians & big business alike.
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The MTJ team visited Nowa Huta, Galicia Jewish Museum, and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. Not only did we learn a great deal but we were left contemplating additional questions as we returned home. #MTJ19studytrip #Kraków #AuschwitzBikernau #Poland
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We are thankful to have an opportunity to engage in discussions with Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias and Dr on the subjects of memory laws and lustration. We also thank the for hosting and treating us with a wonderful lunch!
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This year’s MTJ team embarked on a study trip to Poland, where we contemplated topics such as Jewish-Polish relations and identity, the lustration process, Nazi and Communist crimes, questions of justice, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
#MTJ19studytrip #Poland
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Last week I had the honour of delivering a lecture on #lustration and #TransitionalJustice in post-1989 Poland for students of during their study trip to #Poland
Thank you so much for inviting me and a great discussion during the seminar held in Warsaw
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We are ready for our trip to Poland thanks to an insightful discussion with Prof. Andre Liebich on the current political climate, memorialization, the Holocaust law and lustration among other issues; and also thanks to support from and #MTJ19studytrip
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This week, we had our last meeting with and Tafadzwa Christmas, discussing Ethics and the Law of Transitional Justice. “Utopia is a tragic vision... We can hope, fail and hope again. We can live with repeated failure and still improve the societies we build” ~LTS
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Don't forget to join us on 14 March for the first film of the ‘Uncommon Trials’ trilogy w/: the Trial of Ratko Mladić! geneva-academy.ch/event/all-even
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The programme of our 2019 #TransitionalJustice Spring School (2-4 April) is online!
Last call to join and focus on #truthcommissions with Howard Varney, a leading expert on the issue: bit.ly/2DtfpoT
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Honour to have the Special Rapporteur for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism at our TJ Cafe to discuss the linkages between the issue of justice, security and preventing terrorism
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Panelists (UNHCR) (Reporters Without Borders) and David Sylvan (IHEID) discuss the dire situation of journalists, moderated by
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On 27 February, the Global Migration Centre and the are pleased to welcome Abdul Aziz Muhamat, 2019 Award Laureate, for a panel discussion about the case against #Manus Island detention.
All welcome! More info bit.ly/2U7cyXj
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This Wednesday evening, hosted at , we have a panel discussion on Gangs, Gangsters and Ganglands at 18:15-19:45. Read more about the event here: ow.ly/1Pg930nPgNa
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#Research Our new publication looks at state responsibility for #humanrights violations committed by #armedgroups in the state's territory
Learn more and download the publication: bit.ly/2GICeq8
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New Essex Law Research Blog Post on Transitional Justice in Colombia: Between Coercion / Collaboration - a new book co-authored by Professor Sabine Michalowski .
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