CHH-Lancet Commission Webinar SeriesBeyond the Letter of the Law

Описание: This webinar explores the multi-layered legal standards governing populations affected conflict settings, focusing on the interplay between international human rights, armed conflict, and refugee laws, with a focus on health. It also examines why new international treaties may not resolve persistent policy and operational gaps, and different ways to improve accountability.

Agenda:
Introduction (5 minutes) – Ana Mateus, Executive Editor, of The Lancet, and Paul Spiegel, Distinguished Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Director of CHH, and Chair of the CHH-Lancet Commission

Presentations (10 minutes each):
David Cantor, Professor and founding Director of the Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, Commissioner of CHH-Lancet Commission- Overview of legal frameworks – covering International Humanitarian Law (IHL), refugee law, and human rights.

Malavika Rao, Postdoctoral Researcher at C-EENRG, Department of Land Economy, at the University of Cambridge, NextGen Scholar of CHH-Lancet Commission- Compliance and accountability mechanisms in humanitarian law.

Hugo Slim, Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at the University of Oxford and at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, Commissioner of CHH-Lancet Commission- Exploration of the complexities of law versus interpretation in practice.