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01 Aug

[Greta Ramelli is an international law jurist specializing in international criminal law, and has worked across governmental and non-governmental sectors] The first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances (WCED) was held in Geneva on January 15-16. This historic event brought together state representatives, victims, civil society organizations, international bodies, and experts to foster dialogue and strengthen the fight against enforced disappearances. I participated...

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01 Aug

[Meena Sadr is an incoming PhD student in the Global Studies program at the University of California, Irvine, and an LLM graduate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law] What is Gender Apartheid?  Lawyers, human rights advocates, and academics defined gender apartheid as “… inhumane acts of …, committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination...

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31 Jul

[Savalan Mohammadzadeh is a PhD candidate in public international law at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran and secretary of the Youth Committee of the Iranian Association for United Nations Studies (holding special consultative status with the ECOSOC). Mohammad Mehdi Seyed Nasseri is a researcher at the Center for Ethics and Law Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran and lecturer in international...

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31 Jul

[José M. Muñoz is a senior researcher in neurotechnology at the International Center for Neuroscience and Ethics (CINET) in Spain. He is also a board member at the International Neuroethics Society (INS) and an executive member for Ibero-America at the Centre for Neurotechnology and Law (CNL) in the UK. José Ángel Marinaro has a PhD in legal and social sciences, and...

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31 Jul

[Yaser Salarain is a lawyer and international law expert at the School of International Relations, Tehran] The protracted conflict in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) has consistently tested the limits of international humanitarian law (IHL) and, more specifically, the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (GCIV). Despite repeated UNGA resolutions and diplomatic initiatives,...

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30 Jul

[Adithi Rajesh and Nandana Nebhu are students at Jindal Global Law School, India. They are affiliated with the Jindal Forum for International and Economic Laws.] On the 13th of June 2025, the United Nations Ocean Conference by consensus of over 170 nations adopted a political declaration titled “Our Ocean, Our Future: United for Urgent Action”, highlighting the essential role of the Ocean...

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30 Jul

[Juan Auz is an Ecuadorian lawyer and a postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University's Law School] On March 14, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) made public a landmark ruling holding Ecuador internationally responsible for the violation of various rights of the Tagaeri and Taromenane, the last remaining indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation (PIAV) in the western Ecuadorian Amazon...

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30 Jul

[Saniamu Ngeywa has a masters of laws (LL.M.) in international human rights law from the University of Groningen, Netherlands] No Laughing Matter Retrogressive times and events have taken Kenya back to an all-too-familiar phase, rendering citizens, funny guys, dissidents, and rights defenders shivering. Social media enthusiasts banter that political positions should have an undisputed requirement that the applicant must be able to...

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29 Jul

[Aakash Chandran (X: @ChandranAakash is the Legal Advocacy and Communications Manager at Asia Justice Coalition.] The international community is currently navigating a turbulent phase marked by armed conflicts, aggression, and manifest violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law. The situation in South, Southeast, and East Asia also continues to present alarming developments, including the escalating situation in Myanmar, exacerbated...

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29 Jul

[Fia Hamid-Walker is a PhD candidate in disaster jurisprudence and postcolonial theory at Melbourne Law School and human rights lawyer] Disaster means a calamitous event or series of events resulting in widespread loss of life, great human suffering and distress, mass displacement, or large-scale material or environmental damage, thereby seriously disrupting the functioning of societyArticle 3(b) of the Draft Articles on...

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28 Jul

This post is a continuation of What Will Gaza Become After Genocide? Using the Counterfactual Method to Evaluate Three Post-Genocidal Futures (24 July 2025). You may access Part 1 here, where I argued that the genocide Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinians is central to the zionist ethos which, like other settler-colonial movements, seeks to remove the native from coveted...

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