In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Symposia

30 May

[Lisa Reinsberg is the founding executive director of the International Justice Resource Center, a PhD candidate with the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, and a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law] Human rights oversight bodies have rejected an unknown number of complaints because individual complainants used language that was insulting or offensive to...

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30 May

[Yifan Jia is a PhD candidate and visiting lecturer at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London, and a research associate at the Global Governance Centre at Geneva Graduate Institute. John Binns is a partner at BCL Solicitors LLP. He is a specialist in proceeds of crime laws, sanctions, tax investigations, and the regulation of cannabis.] Historically, mechanisms for...

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29 May

[Grażyna Baranowska is a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. Dr Nasia Hadjigeorgiou is an Associate Professor in Transitional Justice and Human Rights at UCLan Cyprus.] People have always gone missing and their loved ones have always sought to establish their fate. In this endeavour,...

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28 May

[Gustavo Prieto works for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and is Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Law Faculty of Ghent University, Belgium] Blockchain technology, with its decentralized and global reach, is transforming how rules, authority, and accountability are understood. Far from being confined to cryptocurrency payments, blockchain is rapidly shaping key arenas such as digital identities, supply chains, and the...

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27 May

[Valeria Ruiz-Perez is a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (University of York) and a Visiting Fellow at LSE Law School. She is a main researcher of the Rethinking accountability from the bottom: Setting a research agenda on traditional grassroots justice mechanisms (TGJMs) project.  Piergiuseppe Parisi is a lecturer in international human rights law at the Centre for...

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26 May

[Jorge Peniche is an international lawyer specializing in transitional justice and accountability, with a focus on emerging settings. He is the Associate in Mexico at G37 Centre and an Associate Professor at Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico), where he teaches on transitional justice, organized crime and security. He holds a Master of Laws from New York University.] Preludium: “I Want Consequences…” “I want consequences,”...

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26 May

[Ben Grama is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. He is part of the inter-institutional multidisciplinary iBOF project “Future-proofing human rights: Developing thicker forms of accountability”, a collaboration between the Universities of Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, and Hasselt. His work focuses on devising a thick conception of accountability drawing on the overall research findings of...

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07 Feb

[María Noel Leoni is Deputy Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and Director and Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat  Alejandra Vicente is Head of Law at REDRESS and Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat] This symposium has brought together experts from key international fields to foster reflections on the transformative potential of CEDAW’s General Recommendation 40, which calls for the...

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07 Feb

The adoption of General Recommendation 40 by the CEDAW Committee in October 2024 represents a significant milestone in the push for greater representation of women in international decision-making spaces.   This post will focus on an area that General Recommendation 40 will have an impact: the leadership of women from the Asian region in international justice and accountability. This long-overdue discussion is...

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07 Feb

[Alejandra Mora is Executive Secretary of the CIM Jurist, feminist, researcher, Costa Rican politician, and women’s rights activist Marta Martínez is a political scientist and CIM Specialist since 2011, specializing in democracy and parity] General Recommendation No. 40 (GR40) is a crucial tool in today’s challenging and evolving landscape. The advancements in AI, digital economies, and circular green economies, alongside the challenges...

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07 Feb

[Claudia Fuentes Julio (PhD, International Relations) is the Ambassador of Chile to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva  Solange Dufourcq del Canto is a Lawyer, Chilean Diplomat, Gender Focal Point at the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva] The General Recommendation No. 40 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against...

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07 Feb

[Leticia Born is Associate Director of Programs for Latin America/Global at Co-Impact and holds a Master’s in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam with a focus on gender] Close your eyes and picture this: you are a Black Brazilian woman, standing center stage as you receive your law degree from a reputable university. You hold your breath when you...

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