The role of human rights mechanisms in implementing international humanitarian law (Geneva Conventions)
Le rôle des mécanismes des droits humains dans la mise en œuvre du droit international humanitaire
Hormis le CICR, le droit international humanitaire (DIH) ne contient aucun mécanisme conventionnel qui fonctionnerait dans la pratique permettant d’en assurer sa mise en œuvre. Les mécanismes des droits humains peuvent-ils être mis à contribution, sans diluer les droits humains, ni affaiblir la crédibilité du DIH ? Question particulièrement pertinente à l’occasion du 70ème anniversaire des Conventions de Genève.
THE ROLE OF HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS IN IMPLEMENTING INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW (GENEVA CONVENTIONS)
Thursday 14 and Friday 15 November
Uni Mail, room 6050
40 boulevard du Pont-d’Arve
THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2019
9-9.30am: Welcome and introduction
Nicolas Levrat, Director of the Global Studies Institute (GSI), University of Geneva
Micheline Calmy-Rey, Visiting professor, University of Geneva, former President of Switzerland
Nathalie Marti, Deputy director of the Directorate of International Law, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
9.30-10.30am: Presentation of the Geneva Academy report on the role of human rights mechanisms in implementing humanitarian law
Émilie Max, Geneva Academy
Cordula Droege, Head of the legal division, ICRC
10.45am–12.30pm: IHL jurisdiction of human rights mechanisms
Chair: Nicolas Levrat, University of Geneva
A roadmap for interplay and human rights mechanisms’ engagement with international humanitarian law
Floris Tan, Leiden University
The missing elephant in the room –
state consent to the IHL jurisdiction of human rights mechanisms
Ka Lok Yip, University of Hong Kong
Mona Rishmawi, Chief of rule of law, equality and non-discrimination branch, OHCHR
Marco Sassòli, Geneva Academy
Françoise Hampson, University of Essex
1.45–2.45pm: Universal Periodic Review
Chair: Walter Kälin, University of Bern
Potentials and drawbacks of the UPR as a mechanism to implement IHL: future perspectives and possible improvements
Claudia Candelmo, LUISS University, Rome
The UPR as a tool to ensure greater compliance with international human rights norms and IHL
Gianni Magazzeni, UPR Branch, OHCHR
2.45–4.15pm: Universal treaty bodies
Chair: Gloria Gaggioli, University of Geneva
Implementing IHL through ICCPR
Kishor Dere, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Interpreting the obligation to respect and ensure respect for IHL under article 38 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: the practice of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Sofia Poulopoulou, Leiden University
Extra-territorial derogations during international military operations – solving the ‘life of the nation’ conundrum
Cornelius Wiesener, University of Copenhagen
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Committee against torture
FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2019
9–10.15am: Regional mechanisms
Chair: Frédéric Bernard, University of Geneva
The implementation of international humanitarian law by the inter-American human rights system
Rafael Lima Asche, University of Giessen
Reconciling the irreconcilable? The interaction between the ECHR and IHL
Helen Keller, European Court of Human Rights
Exploring the role of African human rights mechanisms in implementing international humanitarian law
Djacoba Tehindrazanarivelo, University of Geneva
10.15–11.30am: Missing persons, right to life in armed conflicts
Chair: Olivier de Frouville, University Paris II Panthéon Assas, UN Committee on enforced disappearance
Missing persons in the jurisprudence of international human rights mechanisms
Grażyna Baranowska, Polish Academy of Sciences
Missing persons in armed conflicts: perspectives from the UN working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances
Bernard Duhaime, Université du Québec à Montréal, Member of the working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances
The right to life as a backdoor entry for international humanitarian law
Gloria Gaggioli, University of Geneva
11.45am–12.45pm: Fact finding (part 1)
Chair: Thilo Marauhn, Chair of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
Human rights fact-finding and aerial warfare – the lessons learned
Mateusz Piątkowski, University of Lodz
Implementation of international humanitarian law: the role of the independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic
Farnaz Dezfouli Asl, Geneva Academy
Understanding and misunderstanding the principle of precaution in attack by Human Rights Council fact-finding missions
Marco Longobardo, University of Westminster
2–2.45pm: Fact finding (part 2)
Chair: Thilo Marauhn, Chair of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
Accountability for atrocity crimes in conflict and post-conflict countries: the role of commissions of inquiry
Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser on the prevention of genocide, and Charles Majinge, Legal Advisor for the commission of inquiry in South Sudan
Investigating violations of IHL: law, policy and good practices
Jelena Pejic, ICRC
2.45–4pm: Armed groups
Chair: Marco Sassòli, Geneva Academy
Reinforcing international humanitarian law through the use of the human rights mechanisms: the role of the CAT
Fatma Raâch, Tunisian Association for International Law
Challenging the myth that human rights bodies cannot address non-state actors in armed conflict
Andrew Clapham, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
The potential and the challenges relating to the use of UN Special Procedure Mandates to improve compliance of non-state belligerents with IHL in situations of armed conflict: the examples of the self-declared Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine
Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment