Conference on ‘The implementation of international water law: global, regional and basin perspectives,’ Geneva, 4 December, 2019

The Platform for International Water Law of the Geneva Water Hub at the Faculty of Law, Geneva University, together with the Secretariat of the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, will organize a Conference on ‘The implementation of international water law: global, regional and basin perspectives’ at the Geneva headquarters of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on 4 December, 2019. The conference will include three panels. The first panel will address the role of universal freshwater agreements in water diplomacy. The second panel will examine the role of basin mechanisms in ensuring the sound implementation of freshwater legal instruments. The third panel will assess the manner in which other areas of international law, such as international environmental law and human rights law, can assist with the implementation of international water law.

The programme is available at https://www.unige.ch/droit/eau/fr/actus/2019/conference-decembre/.To register, email Oeykue.Irmakkesen@unige.ch by 1 December 2019