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International Law

26 May

[Lucía Inés Xiloj Cuin is a human rights and Indigenous peoples’ rights lawyer in Guatemala. She has litigated several cases related to crimes committed during Guatemala’s internal armed conflict, including the case concerning the massacre at the Spanish Embassy and the Mujeres Achi case. She is also a member of the Red Latinoamericana de Litigio Estratégico en Género (RELEG)] This article...

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26 May

[Sirra Ndow is Country Director of ANEKED (The Gambia). ANEKED is a victim/survivor-led organisation advancing transitional justice, reparations, and human rights advocacy through survivor-centred initiatives, and contributes to global narratives on reparative justice from a survivor perspective] Too often, reparations processes focus on compensation, prosecutions, and institutional reforms while neglecting the lived experiences, dignity, and recognition of victims. In doing so, they risk...

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25 May

[Laura Posada-Orjuela is a Colombian lawyer with an LL.M. from McGill University, specializing in international human rights and transitional justice. She served as legal advisor to a commissioner at the Commission for the Verification of Identity and Kinship of Victims of the Patriotic Union (Comisión para la Constatación de Identidad y Parentesco de Víctimas de la Unión Patriótica, UP)] Introduction On March 31, 2026, the mandate of the Commission...

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25 May

[Kostiantyn Davydenko lived in Donetsk and worked in property valuation before the war. He was detained by officers of the FSB in Simferopol and accused of espionage. He remained in captivity from February 11, 2018, until August 24, 2025, after being released through an exchange procedure. After his release, he co-founded the Charitable Foundation "Civilians in Captivity", and he continues...

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25 May

[Ana Cutts Dougherty is a Legal Consultant at REDRESS, an NGO based in London and The Hague that seeks justice and reparation for survivors of serious international crimes and human rights violations. Katya Ravinska is a Legal Officer at REDRESS.  Alejandro Rodríguez-Díaz is a Legal Officer at REDRESS.  Julie Bardèche is a Senior Legal Advisor at REDRESS. Lyra Nightingale is a Senior Legal Advisor...

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01 May

What follows is a long written interview I conducted with Sareta Ashraph, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers in London and the co-founder of ATLAS Women, "a global community of female-identifying lawyers, activists, and jurists with expertise in various facets of public international law." Ashraph is currently serving as Lead Counsel for Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the ICC, in...

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01 May

[Raghavi Viswanath is a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at College of Law at SOAS. Claire Smith is an editor of Emancipating International Law and a PhD candidate at UvA.] Emancipating International Law announces a lofty aspiration. Departing from academic scholarship about race, it invites readers to think about international law and race. In particular, how racism and racialisation enable violent legal...

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01 May

Pacific state, regional organisation and civil society leaders are preparing for the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Going into COP30 in Belém last year, they were hoping that Australia would be made the host of this year’s COP31 to make it a “Pacific COP” where Pacific states, those most affected...

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01 May

[Kamya Vishwanath is an international trade lawyer based in India and will be pursuing her LLM at Georgetown University Law Centre this fall] “If you want to make it as a radical critic these days, slip the word 'body' into your title" Terry Eagleton  ‘Caste’ is a relatively modern concept and a preeminent source of racialized violence in India and the...

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30 Apr

[Suraj Girijashanker is a Residential Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the nexus between race, empire and international law, particularly in the context of migration] Over the past year, racist violence and abuse targeting Indians across the First World have surged. From attacks on Indian migrants in Ireland to a...

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30 Apr

The 1990s marked a critical decade in the global recognition of climate change and its impacts. The 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil stands out as a decisive turning point, with states from across the world adopting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In doing so, they acknowledged that high-income countries bear greater responsibility for climate change due...

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