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13 Jul

[Laura Duchamp is a Legal Researcher at the International Commission of Jurists] Children are not merely subjects of protection but rights-holders, entitled to exercise their human rights within fair proceedings. Due to their age and evolving capacities, children need enhanced support to effectively enjoy those rights. The adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1989 marked a significant step by...

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13 Jul

Arafat Hosen Khan is a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Law School, a qualified English Barrister, an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and author of The Constitution of Bangladesh: People, Politics, and Judicial Intervention (Routledge, 2022). On 16 November 2025, Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity arising from the July–August...

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08 Jul

[Dr Aurel Sari is a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Exeter] Over the past two years, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law hosted an exchange on a question which until that point had received little attention in the literature: what does it mean for civilian harm to be ‘incidental’ within the meaning of the proportionality rule? Professor Luigi Daniele opened...

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08 Jul

[Sanae Bouyayachen is a PhD candidate in international law at University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco] Introduction: From Personal Command to Algorithmic Architecture On February 12, 2026, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies formally agreed to expedite the integration of advanced technological surveillance to safeguard the Baltic Sea, a move that underscores a deepening crisis in maritime law. This strategic shift is a direct response to...

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07 Jul

[Emanuele Cimiotta is a Professor of International Law at the University of Perugia (Italy)] According to many commentators (Hakimi and Cogan; Peters; Aust, Kress and Krieger), over the last few years international law has been experiencing a number of shocks. First, unilateral massive military actions have been undertaken in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Venezuela, and Iran, along with targeted killings and arrests of high-ranking state officials, as well as...

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07 Jul

[Mohammadhossein Sedehi is a DPhil student in international law at the University of Oxford, St Edmund Hall] Everything cannot be said, therefore, silence is part of speech (Ortega y Gasset 1957, p. 246) On the morning of 28th of February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran, the active phase of which lasted for 39 days, followed by the conclusion of...

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06 Jul

[Davit Khachatryan is a lecturer at American University of Armenia and Russian-Armenian University specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security. Gor Samvel is an MSCA post-doctoral researcher at the UiT- the Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law and the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, specializing in international environmental law.] Introduction While...

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06 Jul

[Paul Etone is a Senior Doctoral Candidate at the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), researching on International Criminal Law, with a specific focus on child forcible transfers and re-education] Introduction The wake of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict has seen the large-scale forcible transfer and re-education of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation, in Russia and Russian-controlled territories.  According to a report published by the Organization...

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03 Jul

An Interview with Saad Kassis-Mohamed, Chairman, Human Rights Association Interviewed by Sarah Nader, Legal Research Officer, Kurdish Rights Centre More than a decade after the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) launched its systematic campaign of genocide, sexual slavery, and mass atrocity against the Yazidi people, accountability remains fragile, fragmentary, and far from complete. Thousands of Yazidi women and girls were subjected to sexual violence, forced marriage,...

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03 Jul

[Debora N. Gunawan is a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) student at University of Michigan Law School] International human rights law has increasingly developed through regionalization and regional human rights courts have become central institutional sites for interpreting rights, hearing individual complaints, and holding states accountable. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), and the African Court on...

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03 Jul

For two years, selective leaks of information have led to a deluge of breathless media reports about the serious misconduct the Prosecutor allegedly committed against a member of his staff. I won't repeat those allegations here -- you can find them for yourself -- but they have always focused on nonconsensual sexual conduct, including sexual assault and rape. The Bureau...

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02 Jul

[Patrick Brian Smith is an Assistant Professor and University Fellow at the University of Salford, where his research critically examines how evidence is mediated with a particular focus on open-source investigation, AI, and human rights] Human Rights-focused OSI OSI (open source investigation) practices involve the collection and analysis of information drawn from publicly accessible sources to examine specific events, individuals, and organisations. Although...

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