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28.07.2020

Protection of Water During and After Armed Conflict

10 years celebration of the proclamation of the right to water

To start the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the resolution on the right to water, the Geneva Water Hub has asked to the Permanent Missions of Togo,...
30.06.2020

Protection of Water During and After Armed Conflict

"Intensified Action", second annual follow-up report

The second, annual follow-up report of the Geneva Water Hub, Secretariat of the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace is available. It adopts the same ...
15.06.2020

Shaping Law and Policy

"DAMS: water flows regulation in a fragmented world" IUCN collaboration

Focusing on these challenges and on existing dynamics at play, the Geneva Water Hub and IUCN’s Environmental Law Centre launch the initiative “Dams: water f...
10.06.2020

Education and Training

Russian version of our MOOC on Water Resources Management and Policy

As of today, our MOOC in Water Resources Management and Policy is available in Russian!
11.05.2020

Building Peace

Stay tuned - The Global Observatory on Water and Peace

The Global Observatory on Water and Peace, recommended by the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace, was launched in March 2019 at the 5th Arab Water F...
29.04.2020

Protection of Water During and After Armed Conflict

Stay tuned - The Geneva List of Principles on the Protection of Water Infrastruc...

In its report “A Matter of Survival”, the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace underlined the adverse consequences of armed conflicts on water resourc...
22.03.2020

Protection of Water During and After Armed Conflict

2020 World Water Day in times of crisis

A regularly updated page on the Geneva Water Hub activites! 
19.03.2020

Protection of Water During and After Armed Conflict

10 years of conflict in Syria - Strengthening the legal regime on the protection...

Photo credit © ICRC
14.03.2020

Building Peace

Blue Peace Day - in the blue exhibition

----- EVENT POSTPONED - STAY TUNED ----- 11.00 - 17.00 Angela Lyn and Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie Rämistrasse 18, Zürich Switzerland
10.03.2020

Shaping Law and Policy

Water, Human Rights, and International Humanitarian Law

----- EVENT POSTPONED - STAY TUNED ----- 14:30 - 16:00 Palais des Nations, room VII Geneva  
02.03.2020

Building Peace

2020 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Barometer

2020 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Barometer 6th Edition
18.02.2020

Building Peace

The concerted and sustainable management of the Senegalese-Mauritanian Aquifer p...

Nouakchott, Mauritania
04.12.2019

Shaping Law and Policy

Conference on “The implementation of international water law: global, regional a...

9:45 World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Avenue de la Paix, 7bis Geneva (access map) 
19.11.2019

Building Peace

“Open Science, leaving no one behind” and the Global Observatory on Water and Pe...

World Science Day for Peace and Development “Open science, leaving no one behind”
12.11.2019

Shaping Law and Policy

OSCE workshop on enhancing transboundary water co-operation

and Wednesday 13 November Strasbourg France