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| 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…

| 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Public UPR Side Event on Workers’ Rights in Panama and Honduras

On 6 and 8 May, Panama and Honduras underwent their second UPR review. FES supported civil society actors in both countries in submitting reports to the review, in both cases focusing on workers’…

| 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Training Course on Human Rights for NHRIs

This training course was developed especially for staff of National Human Rights Institutions world-wide. It supported participants in Expanding their knowledge of the functioning of UN human rights…

| 2015, Trade and Development | Event

FES-WTO Incoming for Journalists from French Speaking African Countries

| 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…