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
- 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