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| 2018, Human Rights and Development, Trade and Development | Event

Digital Trade in Africa: Implications for Inclusion and Human Rights

Digital trade can provide many opportunities that promote or realise human rights within the international and regional human rights framework. This includes pushing overall demand for closing…

| 2018, Human Rights and Development, Employment and Social Policy | Event

Towards Guiding Principles on Worker Rights and Toxics

This expert meeting served to assist the drafting of the next report by the Special Rapporteur, Baskut Tuncak, to the Human Rights Council (to be presented in September) and further development of…

| 2018, Human Rights and Development | Event

2018 Training Course for NHRIs on International Human Rights Mechanisms

The training, developed especially for staff of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) world-wide, aimed to support participants in... Expanding their knowledge of the functioning of UN human…

| 2018, Trade and Development | Event

FES-WTO Seminar for French Speaking Journalists from Africa Specialized in Trade and Economic Issues

What exactly is the World Trade Organization and what is it not? How does the multilateral trading system work? What are the most current developments at the WTO? How will negotiations continue…

| 2018, Peace and Security Policy | Event

Overcoming the Impasse on a WMD-free Zone in the Middle East: Promising New Concrete Steps by Vital Regional Actors

On the occasion of the 2018 Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East…

| 2018, Peace and Security Policy | Event

Framework Forum Roundtable: Reviving Nuclear Threat-Reduction and Disarmament through the NPT, Conference on Disarmament and UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament

This workshop was jointly organised by the Basel Peace Office, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Middle Powers Initiative and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation…

| 2018, Peace and Security Policy | Event

Building Capacities for Effective Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty

For the third year in a row, FES Geneva supported the training course “Building Capacities for Effective Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty” of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. This course…

| 2018, Human Rights and Development, Trade and Development | Event

Assessing Human Rights Impacts of Economic Reform Policies

In March 2017 the HRC requested the Independent Expert on debt and human rights, Mr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, to propose Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments for Economic Reform…

| 2018, Human Rights and Development | Event

The Right to Housing – a Strategy and Capacity Building Workshop

This workshop, organized jointly with the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, brought together housing rights advocates from across the world, who are interested in joint…

| Trade and Development, 2018 | Event

Harnessing Investment for Sustainable Development: Inclusion of Investor Obligations and Corporate Accountability Provisions in Trade and Investment Agreements

An increasing number of trade and investment agreements include provisions or chapters relating to sustainable development. These provisions are typically state-oriented, putting obligations on …