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04.05.2015 | 2015, Trade and Development | Event

FES-WTO Incoming for Journalists from French Speaking African Countries

16.04.2015 | 2015, Trade and Development, Human Rights and Development | Event

Multistakeholder Expert Workshop on a Potential Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) of the Continental Free Trade Area in Africa

The aim of this workshop was to strategize on a potential human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), on which negotiations will begin in 2015. By undertaking an…

13.04.2015 | 2015, Trade and Development | Event

E-Commerce for Developing Countries

Technology has changed the world of business tremendously during the past at least two decades. E-commerce does not stand for something exotic. E-commerce is an important part of business…

24.03.2015 | 2015, Trade and Development | Event

Membership in the WTO: Challenges, Risks and Potentials for Economic Development of Russia

14.03.2015 | 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Conference on Legal Accountability of Business for Human Rights Impacts

The aim of the proposed dialogue was to strengthen NHRIs' capacities to participate effectively in the coming international processes in which the possible development of legal frameworks addressing…

11.03.2015 | 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Ensuring the Right to Food Through Human Rights Impact Assessments - Side Event to the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council

At this expert round-table, we presented and discussed the results of the Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA)-study “Owning seeds, accessing food”. Following recent experiences in implementing …

06.03.2015 | 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Human Rights and Climate Change - Side Event to the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council

A full-day panel in the official program of the HRC addressed the issue of climate change. To complement the governmental discussions, FES, jointly with many NGOs active in this field, hosted a…

06.03.2015 | 2015, Employment and Social Policy, Human Rights and Development | Event

Social Protection Floors and Human Rights

How can social protection floors contribute to the realization of economic, social and cultural rights? And how can better understanding of the norms and principles of human rights improve the design…

26.02.2015 | 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Brainstorming Session on Business and Human Rights - Access to Justice and Extraterritorial Obligations

Geneva for Human Rights-Global Training and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung jointly organized a Brainstorming Session on Business and Human Rights. The brainstorming session focused on the access to…

06.02.2015 | 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

NGO Coordination Meeting on the UNFCCC ADP Negotiations

FES and Earthjustice and CIEL, as initiators of the GeCCco (Geneva Climate Change concertation group) organized a coordination meeting at the occasion of the Geneva session of the UNFCC ADP…