[Parisa Zangeneh recently received her PhD from the Irish Centre for Human Rights. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the Aspect Unit of the Rinn AI Center at the University of Galway and a legal fellow at the Global Justice Center.] In recent days, the world has been watching the developments in the Christa Pike case after she survived two botched...
[Lesther Antonio Ortega Lemus is a Guatemalan Lawyer and the Director of LexOceana, an Ocean Affairs and International Law practice based in The Hague. He has served as Guatemala's representative to several UK- and Netherlands-based international organisations (IMO, ISO, PCA, ICC, OPCW, et al.) and as Deputy Head of Mission and Acting Head of Mission at Guatemala’s Embassies in the...
[Miraj Hosen is a Research Assistant at the Bangladesh Society of International Law.] On 6 July 2026, Bangladesh deposited instruments of accession to three International Maritime Organization liability treaties. The instruments were the 1992 Protocol to the Civil Liability Convention, the 2001 Bunkers Convention, and the 2007 Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention. The latest IMO status record lists those deposits, while the...
[Brianne McGonigle Leyh is Professor of Global Justice Studies at Utrecht University’s School of Law and leads the university's Global Justice Investigations Lab. She co-directs the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), is a member of the Montaigne Center for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice, and is a Senior Peace Fellow with the Public International Law & Policy...
[Gayane Khechoomian is a former Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and an attorney admitted to practice in California and Illinois.] Introduction Last year, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14203, “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court” (ICC), relaunching a sanctions regime with the stated purpose of protecting Americans and U.S. allies from certain exercises of its...
[Sanmay Moitra is a lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, India who has worked on international human rights litigation before international courts and advised on matters involving international law before the Supreme Court of India. He holds an Advanced LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University, an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University, and a BA in...
[Kazi Ayman Awsaf is an undergraduate student and teaching assistant at East West University (Bangladesh).] On 29 September, the first 1,500 of the 5,000 Rohingya whom Myanmar has agreed to take back from Malaysia are due to leave, in what Kuala Lumpur calls a voluntary programme, aboard two Myanmar navy warships and a hospital ship. Human Rights Watch has warned that...
Two years before his assassination, the Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani was interviewed by the Australian journalist Richard Carleton: Carleton: Why won’t your organisation engage in peace talks with the Israelis?Kanafani: You don’t mean exactly peace talks; you mean capitulation, surrender.C: Why not just talk?K: Talk to whom?C: To the Israeli leaders.K: That kind of conversation is between the sword and the...
[Arez Rizgari is an Iranian scholar. The author is writing under a pseudonym because they are concerned that this post will subject them to political retaliation or restrictions on their academic freedom by Iranian authorities.] The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has repeatedly targeted Rojhilat (Iranian Kurdistan) parties based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) with missile and drone strikes...
[Dr Wambua Kituku is the executive director of Kituo Cha Sheria (KITUO), Kenya’s oldest legal empowerment civil society organization (CSO). KITUO is a member of the Global Strategic Litigation Council. He holds a PhD in environmental law from the University of Nairobi and is a licensed attorney.] Introduction The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that global warming...
[Luwam Dirar is an Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Faculty Research and Development at Western New England University School of Law. Ian Kysel is a Clinical Professor of Law and co-director of the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, a...
[Dr Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University working on migration related topics. Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a Lecturer in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, a convenor of the ICON-S Interest Group on Climate Change and Migration, and Knowledge Specialist (Law and Human Rights) with the Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC). Luca...