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Public International Law

07 Sep

[Melanie O’Brien is Professor of International Law and Deputy Head of School (Research) at the University of Western Australia Law School, and visiting scholar with the University of Minnesota Law School’s Human Rights Center. Thomas Shacklock is the research director of Crane Center for Mass Atrocity Prevention, a research contributor at the Human Rights Research Center, and a nonprofit consultant at...

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07 Sep

[Mehmet Sercan Ercan is an independent researcher with a PhD in Public Law, working in the fields of general public law and constitutional law.] International legal norms already exist. What is missing is the institutional capacity to enforce them in situations of mass atrocity. The post-Cold War era nurtured the ambition to transform humanitarian intervention into a universal standard, later conceptualized...

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07 Sep

[Natalia Kubesch is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS and UK-qualified solicitor. She holds an LL.M. in International Law from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Chris Esdaile is a Senior Legal Advisor at REDRESS and a UK-qualified solicitor. He has an LLM in International Human Rights Law at Queen...

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04 Sep

[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez is an Adjunct Professor at the Pompeu Fabra Law Faculty, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025). Sergey Vasiliev is a Professor of International Law at...

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04 Sep

[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez is an Adjunct Professor at the Pompeu Fabra Law Faculty, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025). Sergey Vasiliev is a Professor of International Law at...

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03 Sep

[Bashar AlHadla is a human rights researcher and educator specializing in international human rights law, refugee protection, and nationality law. He holds graduate degrees from Union University in Belgrade, the University of Toronto, and the University of London.] In February 2026, the United States Central Command announced the completion of transferring 5,700 ISIS terrorist fighters from detention camps in north-eastern Syria...

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02 Sep

[Subinoy Mustofi Eron is Design Director at Netra News and a co-founder of Activate Rights, a Bangladesh-based digital rights collective. Georgia Edwards is Visual Investigations Training & Partnerships Manager at WITNESS.  Dean Issacharoff is the creator of VSIN, an AI powered visual investigations platform.] Introduction In July 2024, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis took to the streets in an uprising against Sheikh Hasina’s government....

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02 Sep

[Shanice R. Guthrie is a law student at Yale Law School ‘27 and the Student Director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. Born and raised in Jamaica, she brings a personal understanding of climate harm to her work on legal accountability.] The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic partnered with WITNESS to conduct original research on the use of audiovisual evidence...

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01 Sep

[Natalie Hornos is a Program Manager at WITNESS with over 17 years of experience coordinating social impact, educommunicative, and investigative audiovisual projects across Brazil and Latin America. A specialist in community cinema, she holds a postgraduate degree in Anthropology and is currently a Master’s in Latin American Studies.] Introduction to Revide REVIDE – VIDEO SCHOOL FOR THE DEFENSE OF TERRITORIES - is...

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31 Aug

[Clive Vella is Data Manager at Airwars, a not-for-profit transparency watchdog which tracks, assesses, archives and investigates civilian harm claims in conflict-affected nations.  Shoeb Abdullah is a digital rights activist and OSINT investigator based in Bangladesh. He is co-founder of the Bangladesh Protest Archive, an initiative dedicated to preserving, documenting and investigating gross human rights abuses around democratic protest.  Kartika Pratiwi is...

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31 Aug

[Mei Ching Liu is an Associate Research Fellow with the Military Transformations Programme (MTP) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore.] All views expressed in this post are the author’s own and do not reflect the official position of RSIS. The UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) will meet later this month...

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31 Aug

[Georgia Edwards leads Visual Investigations at WITNESS as a Training and Partnerships Manager.] Over the past decade, the rise in community-filmed evidence, OSI (open-source information) and visual investigations has brought methodologies and models that have profoundly reshaped human rights investigations, yet the most visible investigative labs, methodological standards and verification infrastructures are still embedded in Global North newsrooms, universities and NGOs....

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