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25 Sep A Rash Move: U.S. Sanctions Undermine the Privileges and Immunities of UN Special Rapporteurs
[ Alyssa Yamamoto is the Senior Legal & Policy Advisor at the Atlantic Council Strategic Litigation Project, a Legal Advisor with the End Gender Apartheid Campaign, and a Visiting Fellow with the University of Minnesota Law School’s Human Rights Center. Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons) is a Regents Professor and Robina Professor in law, public policy and society at the University of Minnesota and Professor of law at the Queen’s University of Belfast. She served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights from 2017-2023. ] This...10 Mar Events and Announcements: 10 March 2024
in different fields of international law, including from Global South(s) and empirical perspectives. This symposium on 15-16 July 2024 will bring together scholars and practitioners, from various fields of international law and through divergent theoretical and geographical perspectives. For more information, click here. From Protection to Coercion: the Limits of Positive Obligations in Human Rights Law: 3-4 October, Lund, Sweden, organized by Dr Vladislava Stoyanova, Associate Professor, Lund University, Faculty of Law, and Dr David McGrogan, Associate Professor, Northumbria Law School. Positive obligations in human rights law appear to be relentlessly...03 Apr So How is China Reacting to the Philippines Arbitration Submission? Not Very Well
...latter’s illegal occupation of some of China’s islands and reefs in the South China Sea. At the heart of the matter are the disputes between the two sides on the sovereignty over islands and reefs, and delimitation of maritime boundaries. Yet disputes such as these have already been excluded from arbitration procedures through a declaration made by China in 2006 pursuant to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). In this context, China’s rejection of the Philippines’ submission for arbitration is solidly based on international law, and...
02 Jun Options for a Peace Settlement in Ukraine: Option Paper VI – Prisoners of War and Other Detainees in the Peace Process for Ukraine
...the potential benefits of individual redress resulting from a successful individual application at the ECtHR will be offset by the length of the ECtHR procedures, incoherent case-law and a partial handling of needs. Three conclusions frame any negotiations between Ukraine and the RF concerning PoWs and other detainees. First, whereas international law provides for the repatriation, release and transfer of detained persons, it does not provide for detainee exchanges or swaps. Nor does international law prohibit detainee exchanges or swaps, leaving ample space for negotiations. Second, irrespective of the applicable...
10 Feb False Equivalences in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict – International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Perspectives
...other (non-occupied) cities in Azerbaijan. Second, from the perspective of international criminal law (ICL), the 1992 Khojaly massacre (recognised by some states as a genocide) of Azerbaijanis is frequently compared to the Sumgait pogroms which killed 26 Armenians, despite the latter atrocity having been fully addressed under domestic law in the absence of state complicity. In the light of further territorial claims made by the Armenian government on Georgia and Turkey, filling in these gaps is key. IHL distinctions in occupied and non-occupied territories The applicability of IHL rules necessarily...