Sexual Violence in Conflict 2019: Insights from Sudan and Algeria
The 19th of June is celebrated as the UN International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. In this context, Security Council Resolution 1820, in 2008, recognized sexual...
Sudan’s Elusive Justice: Do Heads of States Enjoy Immunity from International Crimes?
With the worsening situation in Sudan and the government’s systematic violations against the people of Sudan, questions arise about the fate of Omar al-Bashir (currently languishing in Sudan’s prisons), the...
Arm Sales to Saudi Arabia: Evaluating the Clear Risk of Violations of IHL
On Thursday 20 June, the Court of Appeal issued its open judgment in the appeal concerning the lawfulness of the grant by the UK Government of export licences for arms...
Kimathi and Others v Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Kimathi and Others v Foreign & Commonwealth Office [2018] EWHC 2066 (also known as the ‘Mau Mau litigation’, after the Mau Mau rebellion that was instrumental in Kenya’s independence movement)...
Expectations of the Victims of Radovan Karadžić
The Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT) recently delivered the long-awaited judgement in the appeal of Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadžić. A trial chamber of the...
A Year of Gaza’s Marches of Return: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Targeting Protected Groups
The independent international commission of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (OPT), recently released its report on possible international crimes committed by Israel within...
The 40th Session of the Human Rights Council: Some Observations on State Behaviour
The UN Human Rights Council, which was created in 2006, is currently holding its 40th Session. The HRC is the UN’s main human rights body, and is a political body...
Trump’s Invocation of Emergency Powers over Border Wall: Is It Legal?
In recent weeks, President Trump has sent signals that he is prepared to declare a national emergency in order to get his long-promised border wall built. On Jan. 4, Trump...
Universal jurisdiction to the rescue: a way forward for victims of Franco-era crimes of gender-based violence?
Between the years of 1960 and 1974, Spanish lawyer and feminist activist Lidia Falcón O’Neill was detained seven times by security police on behalf of the Franco government, because of...
ECOWAS Court Rules that use of Military Tribunals to Prosecute Civilians in Nigeria Violates Right to Fair Trial
On 29 June 2018 the Court of Justice for the Economic Community of West African States (‘ECOWAS Court’) handed down its judgment in the case of Gabriel Inyang & another...
State of Palestine takes United States to International Court of Justice over Jerusalem Embassy
In its consistent diplomatic and legal attempts to salvage the two-State solution based on international law, the State of Palestine instituted a case against the United States of America before...
Indonesia’s New Counter-Terrorism Law and the Government’s Hidden Agenda?
Following the suicide bombings by attackers with links to the Islamic State in May, the Indonesian Parliament has finally approved the long-pending revisions to the counter-terrorism law. While the determination...
