Counter terrorism Law & The Human Rights Violation of the Uighurs in China: An International Law Perspective
The recently published files by the New York Times have highlighted the realities of the deplorable living ...
Conflict and Human Rights
Robotic Roguery: Analysing the Legality of Autonomous Weapons (Killer Robots) vis- à-vis Principles of International Humanitarian Law
The outrage against autonomous weapon systems (“Killer Robots”) is at an all-time high. Recently, the UN ...
Crimea Conscripts: Russia continues to flout the Geneva Conventions
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in its most recent Report on the Human Rights Situation in
Is There a Protection Vacuum in Contested Territories?
The issue of ‘contested territories’ has become one of the main bones of contention with regard to how the human ...
The 2019 Sudanese Coup and Omar Al-Bashir: A blow to the ICC
In 2003 and 2008, the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) requested the U.N. Secretary-General to investigate reports of ...
New UK Ministry of Defence proposals risk impunity
In July 2019, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) made a series of proposals on Legal Protections for Armed Forces ...
Civilian Life at Risk in Iran: The Hard-Hitting Effects of the US Economic Sanctions
Following the US-imposed oil embargo and a web of hard-hitting economic sanctions, Iran’s economy and the lives of ...
Partial U.S. sanctions on Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), one of two major human rights bodies of the Organization of ...
The Prospects for the Malaysian Exercise of Universal Jurisdiction over Myanmarese Atrocity Crimes
The ‘clearance operations’ commenced in August 2017 against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim population by the State’s ...
The Non-effectiveness of the United Nations Security Council’s role in the Syrian Conflict
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the principal organ of the United Nations (UN) charged with ...
The American drone programme and the responsibility of its partners
Since 2001, the Bush administration has taken the American drone program – to use automated weapons to kill ...
“The Interests of Justice” – The ICC and the Case of Afghanistan
In April 2019, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court rejected the request to authorise an ...
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