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| 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

NGO Breakfast Discussion. On the Road to Paris: Where are the TNCs?

In the context of the Climate Conference COP 21, taking place this December and on the occassion of the meeting of the IGWG on an International Legally Binding Instrument on TNCs we discussed on ways…

| 2015, Trade and Development | Event

Workshop on WTO Negotiations

| 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Dinner Debate on “Global Futures – Geneva Perspective”

| 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Accountability Mechanisms for Implementing the SDGs - Side Event to the 29th Session of the HRC

In the context of the UN Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda in September 2015, this side event to the 29th session of the HRC discussed the importance of human rights principles in…

| 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Expert Workshop: Corporate Action for Climate Justice and Human Rights

In the run-up to the COP 21 climate conference in Paris at the end of this year, the Business and Hphoto Side eventuman Rights Resource Centre and FES Geneva organized an expert workshop to discuss…

| 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Public Side Event at the 29th Session of the HRC: Corporate Action for Climate Justice and Human Rights

Practitioners from business, trade unions, governments, human rights organizations shared their experience and ideas for effective approaches to injecting human rights in climate change…

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

Informal Trade Union Meeting on CESCR General Comment on “Rights At Work”

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights published a draft of their upcoming General Comment on ICESCR Article 7 on “just and fair conditions at work,” calling for comments and…

| 2015, Employment and Social Policy, Trade and Development | Event

"Geneva Debates" - a Tailor-Made Briefing for FES-Partners on Social, Trade and Investment Policy

| 2015, Trade and Development | Event

Contribution of Intellectual Property to Facilitating the Transfer of Environmentally Rational Technology

In the line of the use and transfer of green technologies, the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has risen enormously. IPR are seen as a driving force in competitive innovation and…

| 2015, Trade and Development, Employment and Social Policy | Event

Social and Solidarity Finance: Tensions, Opportunities and Transformative Potential

This workshop brought together an interdisciplinary group of around 25 experts—in the fields of alternative finance, economic sociology and the anthropology of money—to look at the transformative…