Tuesday 30 September 2025
Online – Microsoft Teams

15.00–16.00 CEST (Berlin / Oslo / Stockholm)
14.00–15.00 BST (London)
09.00–10.00 EDT (Ottawa)

This webinar is by invitation only for

• Staff of U4 partner agencies and governments leading on UNCAC CoSP 2025 negotiations / anti-corruption / human rights

(This webinar is by invitation only. To request participation, please contact Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado directly.)

Agenda & Speakers

• 15.00–15.05 Welcome, Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado – Senior Adviser, CMI–U4
  
• 15.05–15.15 Naomi Roht-Arriaza – Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, President of the Board of Directors at the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF)
  
• 15.15–15.20 Katya Salazar – Executive Director, DPLF
  
• 15.20–15.25 Maria José Veramendi Villa – Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Officer, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
  
• 15.25–15.35 Betina Pasteknik – Head of Operations and Working Groups, Co-Chair of the UNCAC Coalition Working Group on Human Rights and Corruption.
  
• 15.35–15.55 Moderated Q&A and discussion on ways forward
  
• 15.55–16.00 Closing remarks

New U4 publication on the right to be free of corruption

This discussion will also feature insights from our latest publication, The right to be free of corruption: a new frontier in anti-corruption approaches through national courts, presented by its lead author, Dr Naomi Roht-Arriaza. The paper outlines a new frontier in anti-corruption approaches through national courts. It shows how some national courts are framing corruption as a human rights issue, raising prospects for a stand-alone right that could expand accountability and victim protections.