In November 2025, the Human Rights Center at Seoul National University will host a three-part academic seminar series under the theme:

<Rethinking Ecological Crisis: Multidimensional Reflections Across Human Rights, Justice, and Gender>

 

This seminar series aims to explore today’s ecological crisis from the intersection of human rights, gender, and justice discourses. We warmly invite you to join us for the second session of this meaningful series.

 

SNU Human Rights Center – Seminar Series

 

<Rethinking Ecological Crisis: Multidimensional Reflections Across Human Rights, Justice, and Gender> 2nd Session

— Second Seminar —

Seminar Title:

Greening the States' obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Date:
Thursday, November 20, 2025
16:00–17:30

Place:

CJ International Center Building 152 Seminar Room (1st floor), Bldg 152 (CJ International Center), Seoul National University

Presentation:
Hélène Tigroudja

Conversation with:
Joo-Young Lee

Associate Research Professor, SNU Human Rights Center

Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

 

About the Speaker

Hélène Tigroudja is Professor at Aix-Marseille University (France) and Visiting Professor of Public International Law at CIL - NUS (Singapore). Since 2019, she has served as an Independent Expert of the United Nations Human Rights Committee supervising the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and in 2025 was elected Vice-Chair of the Committee. She is a co-author of International Rights Law: A Treatise (2025).

 

Simultaneous interpretation (Korean–English) will be provided.

 

Contact:
Human Rights Center, Seoul National University
Tel: +82-2-880-2429
Email: hr-courses@snu.ac.kr