GRC co-organises a workshop “Mitigating the Human Rights Impacts of Arms Transfers: A Blueprint for Peace” on the fields of the the upcoming Geneva Peace Week 2024.
🗓️Wednesday 16 October 2024
⏲️13:00 – 14:30 CET
📍GCSP- 5th floor (pétale 4)/ Hybrid
The registration form for attendees: https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en/register
Arms transfers and the availability of firearms in conflict-affected areas or fragile contexts fuel conflict, crime, violence, and human rights violations. Against this background, how can we work towards more peaceful societies?
Through spotlight presentations, this workshop will set out the applicable legal standards and broad negative human rights impacts of the availability of arms. Based on this, participants will strategise in groups on how to raise awareness of these impacts, what information on the impact of arms should be collected and how it should be assessed by States and the arms sector when authorising arms transfers.
Speakers:
NAKIL BIERI, Consultant Analyst, Global Rights Compliance
MWACHOFI SINGO, Lecturer, University of Nairobi
DAVID MULLER, Legal Officer, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
HIRUNI ALWISHEWA, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Geneva
Geneva Peace Week is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar through which organisations in Geneva and their international partners come together to share knowledge and practice on a diverse range of topics related to peace across contexts and disciplines.
Read the Geneva Peace Week 2024 programme via the link https://cutt.ly/bePRQVaw