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Rebalancing International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
The Significance of the 1949 Geneva Conventions Seventy Years On.

09:00 – 09:20 OPENING REMARKS

Oreste FOPPIANI – Head, Department of International Relations, Webster University Geneva
Clementina ACEDO – Director, Webster University Geneva
Olivier COUTAU – Geneva State Council’s Delegate for International Geneva
Elisabetta TRENTA – Minister of Defense, Italy

09:20 – 10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The Geneva Conventions at 70. More than a Successful Legacy: A Call for Action
Gilles CARBONNIER – Vice-President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Professor of Development Economics, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

10:00 – 10:45 SESSION 1: POWs, Internees, Captured Personnel and Detention Facilities

Chair: Michel VEUTHEY – Associate Professor of International Law, Webster University Geneva, and
Vice-president, International Institute of Humanitarian Law
Challenges in the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
Jonathan CUÉNOUD – Legal Officer, International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Justice Section, Directorate of International Law, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and Indefinite Detention without Trial: U.S. Foreign Policy Failures
David BRAMLETTE – Former U.S. Army Special Operations Medic, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan
and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran, Undergraduate Student, Webster University Geneva (BA-IR 2019)

10:45 – 11:00 Question and Answer Session

11:15 – 12:30 SESSION 2: The Protection of Civilians in Occupied Territories

Chair: Oreste FOPPIANI – Head, Department of International Relations, Webster University Geneva
IHL in Occupied Palestinian Territory
Younis AL KHATIB – President, Palestine Red Crescent Society
The Interaction between IHL and IHRL: The Protection of Civilians in Occupied Territories
Lama JBARAH – Teaching Assistant, Human Rights Law, Webster University Geneva, and Vice-President of International-Lawyers.org, Geneva
UNRWA, International Law and the Situation of Palestine Refugees in Conflict and Occupation
Michael SCHOISWOHL – Deputy Director and Principal Legal Officer, UN Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
A Historical and Political Prospective of the UNHCR Western Sahara Refugee Situation
Athar SULTAN-KHAN – Honorary Dean and Professor of International Relations, the Geneva School of Diplomacy (GSD), former Chef de Cabinet of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General during the transition period in New York
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Rebalancing International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
The Significance of the 1949 Geneva Conventions Seventy Years On.

09:00 – 09:20 OPENING REMARKS

Oreste FOPPIANI – Head, Department of International Relations, Webster University Geneva
Clementina ACEDO – Director, Webster University Geneva
Olivier COUTAU – Geneva State Council’s Delegate for International Geneva
Elisabetta TRENTA – Minister of Defense, Italy

09:20 – 10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The Geneva Conventions at 70. More than a Successful Legacy: A Call for Action
Gilles CARBONNIER – Vice-President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Professor of Development Economics, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

10:00 – 10:45 SESSION 1: POWs, Internees, Captured Personnel and Detention Facilities

Chair: Michel VEUTHEY – Associate Professor of International Law, Webster University Geneva, and
Vice-president, International Institute of Humanitarian Law
Challenges in the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
Jonathan CUÉNOUD – Legal Officer, International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Justice Section, Directorate of International Law, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and Indefinite Detention without Trial: U.S. Foreign Policy Failures
David BRAMLETTE – Former U.S. Army Special Operations Medic, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan
and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran, Undergraduate Student, Webster University Geneva (BA-IR 2019)

10:45 – 11:00 Question and Answer Session

11:15 – 12:30 SESSION 2: The Protection of Civilians in Occupied Territories

Chair: Oreste FOPPIANI – Head, Department of International Relations, Webster University Geneva
IHL in Occupied Palestinian Territory
Younis AL KHATIB – President, Palestine Red Crescent Society
The Interaction between IHL and IHRL: The Protection of Civilians in Occupied Territories
Lama JBARAH – Teaching Assistant, Human Rights Law, Webster University Geneva, and Vice-President of International-Lawyers.org, Geneva
UNRWA, International Law and the Situation of Palestine Refugees in Conflict and Occupation
Michael SCHOISWOHL – Deputy Director and Principal Legal Officer, UN Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
A Historical and Political Prospective of the UNHCR Western Sahara Refugee Situation
Athar SULTAN-KHAN – Honorary Dean and Professor of International Relations, the Geneva School of Diplomacy (GSD), former Chef de Cabinet of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General during the transition period in New York.

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