Speeches and Interventions

Interventions

• Updated Amicus Curiae communication to the African Commission on Human and People's Rights in RE:
  Complaint on behalf of Patrick Gabaakanye who has been sentenced to death in Botswana
  28 June 2016
• Amicus Curiae communication to the African Commission on Human and People's Rights in RE:
  Complaint on behalf of Patrick Gabaakanye who has been sentenced to death in Botswana
  27 April 2016

Talking Points

• Autonomous Weapon Systems: Human rights and ethical issues
  Meeting of High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
  14 April 2016

Speeches

• Reflections on the ranking of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria as the 92nd best law faculty in the world by Times Higher Education, 2017
  5 December 2017

• Comments by the Special Rapporteur at the Informal Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
  Convention on Conventional Weapons
  16 April 2015

• The progressive abolition of the death penalty worldwide
  Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights
  Jakarta, Indonesia, 10-11 November 2014

• A comparative perspective form Africa: Protocols abolishing the death penalty in Europe and the Americas
  Continental Conference on the Death Penalty, 2- 4 July 2014, Cotonou, Benin
  2 - 4 July 2014
  
  
• Autonomous weapons systems and human rights law
  Presentation made at the informal expert meeting organized by the state parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
  13 – 16 May 2014, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• The human rights implications of targeted killings
  Side Event on Targeted Killings
  21 June 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
  

• Extrajudicial executions and targeted killings
  International Law Journal symposium on ‘State Ethics’
  20 February 2012, Harvard Law School, United States of America
  

• Expert Consultation on ‘Safety of Journalists: Towards a more effective international protecti on framework’
  Introductory remarks by Christof Heyns, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on ‘Protecting the right to life of journalists’
  23 November 2011, Vienna, Austria
  
  
• International Jurisprudence regarding the death penalty and the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  High level panel organised by the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, facilitated by the Governments of Belgium and Chile
  Statement by Mr Christof Heyns, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
  10 October 2011, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  

Workshops, Lectures and Panel Discussions

• Expert panel on the uses of information communication technologies for human rights
  Panel Discussion
  10 February 2015, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  
  
• Unlawful Killings in Africa
  Keynote Address at the Launch of the CGHR Study on the Right to Life
  19 June 2014, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  
  
• Autonomous Weapon Systems: The Future?
  Public Lecture
  19 June 2014, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Social Protest and Human Rights
  Side event on police use of force and human rights protections in social protests
  13 June 2014, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• Human rights, disarmament, and killer robots
  Side event on lethal autonomous weapons
  11 June 2014, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• Targeted Killings, Drones and the Right to Life
  The nteraction between the right to life as enshrined in international human rights law, laws on targeted strikes during armed conflict, and the right of states to act in self-defence against non-state parties under international laws on the use of force
  15 August 2013, Oxford Martin School, United Kingdom
• Lethal Autonomous Robotics and the Right to Life: Expert Consultation with the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns
  The consequences for the right to life of the emergence of Lethal Autonomous Robotics (LARs)
  23 February 2013, Academy of European Law
  
  
• The Death Penalty: Hanging on a thread?
  Panel Discussion
  25 June 2012, Harvard Law School, United States of America
  
  
• Centre for Governance and Human Rights Expression Repression
  Expert international panel on the safety of journalists
  2 March 2012, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom