Live Seminar 27: Monitoring the Implementation of IHL: The Expanding Role of the Human Rights Council

Summary: In this week's live seminar, our panelists examined the modalities through which the UN Human Rights Council engages in monitoring the implementation of international humanitarian law during situations of armed conflict. The discussion was moderated by Claude Bruderlein and Naz Modirzadeh. Panelists included: Christina M. Cerna (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights), Loubna Freih Georges (Carr Center for Human Rights Policy- Harvard, and Human Rights Watch, Geneva), Françoise Hampson (University of Essex - UK) and Yvonne Terlingen (formerly of Amnesty International).