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ISMUN SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 HUMAN RIGHTS & DEVELOPMENT

 

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We have the pleasure to announce the next session of ISMUN Summer School on Human Rights and Development which will be held in Geneva from 14 to 18 July, 2025.

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It is organised by the International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN), an NGO with consultative status at the UN and a long-standing involvement with the UN Human Rights work. As in previous years the Summer School will be led by a team of experienced academics and NGO leaders.

ISMUN Summer School is an opportunity to learn about the UN Human Rights system and to interact with prominent experts. Lectures will be given by academics specialized in Human Rights, Human Rights Council special rapporteurs, UN officials, diplomats and NGO representatives working on key issues.

Main topics of the Summer School will focus on social and economic rights, with an emphasis on the right to development.

The 2025 programme will include:

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Introduction to the UN Human Rights system and its components;

 

Learning how to interact with the different parts of the UN Human Rights system;

 

Enhancing and protecting the role of the UN in global governance;

 

The current global development situation and challenges for multilateralism

 

Climate Emergency – New Human Rights priority;

 

Mobilizing and scaling up finance and resources for global needs;

 

The UN programmes against racism and the 2nd Decade for People of African Descent;

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Key social and economic rights issues, such as right to food, water, gender equality,

education, housing;

 

The right to health;

 

The Right to Development;

 

Towards the 2nd UN World Social Summit

 

The role of the international financial institutions;

 

Migrant and refugee rights;

 

Humanitarian Law; crimes against humanity and international courts ;

Towards a new convention on TNCs and Human Rights.

 

On completion of the Summer School the participants will receive a certificate.

 

The ISMUN Summer School 2023 is held at time of many global crisis situations when the need to take decisive action for global justice and development through multilateralism and a strengthened United Nations is greater than ever. This is particular the case in view of the climate emergency and the increasing inequalities within and among countries. There is an urgent need to address the weak support of the UN and its budget crisis. Without the mobilization of a well informed public opinion by people of various ages in all regions, the UN will not be able to meet and implement its agreed 2030 Development Agenda, and its Development and Human Rights targets for all.

The Summer School will emphasize the need to equally implement the full UN Human Rights agreements, civil and political rights as well as social and economic rights, including the right to development.

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The Summer School is offered at the low fee of 270.- CHF , which includes the full programme, study materia, and certificate on completion of the Summer School.

Only a limited number of participants can be accepted for this high-quality training programme and this will be on a first-come, first-served basis.