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19 Sep Public-Private Genocide?
...a specific weapons part was used to commit a specific violation. It is the very relationship itself between company and state that enables, among other things, the systemic violation of Palestinians’ right to self-determination. And as Albanese points out, the systemic nature of this violation invalidates ‘paternalistic’ arguments about the economic benefits of continued engagement with Israel’s occupation regime. The response to Albanese’s report has confirmed its significance. Nine days after Albanese filed the report, the US government announced it was imposing sanctions on her for ‘writing threatening letters to...
26 May Futureproofing Human Rights Symposium: When the Center Cannot Hold – Grey Zones in “The Age” of Accountability
...contrast, the notion of grey zones refers to settings where the very possibility and relevance of accountability is called into question. This piece therefore understands accountability to refer to criminal sanctions and adjudication mechanisms, as well as to the more normative and foundational idea that actors –especially those in positions of power—must bear consequences for their actions and omissions regarding both negative and positive human rights obligations. Accountability can take place in various forums, not just legal ones, with political arenas also playing a crucial role. This broader understanding foregrounds...
19 Aug Venezuela’s “Firm and Unwavering” Decision to Leave the International Criminal Court: From the Political Turmoil to the Legal Loopholes
...Latin American countries, resulting in a biasagainst the Global South. This decision came remarkablyclose on the heels of an op-ed published by the United States’ Secretary of State in which he vowed to dismantle the Court and called on all States Parties to withdraw from the Rome Statute system. This move constitutes an additional political missile launched by the Trump administration against the Court, following the imposition of sanctions on the judges who issued the arrest warrants against, among others, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders. However, to...12 May Events and Announcements: 12 May 2024
...from one country to another, states are looking for effective ways to respond consistently with international law. Governments regularly resort to unfriendly but lawful acts of retorsion in the cyber context, such as the US expelling diplomats and imposing sanctions following the Solar Winds hack. International law also allows states to take ‘countermeasures’ in response to wrongful acts in cyberspace and beyond. Countermeasures are responses that would normally be unlawful but are justified when taken to stop and/or repair acts that violate international law. The use of countermeasures in cyberspace is...
11 Feb Two Distinct Legal Regimes of State Recognition: Somaliland, Israel, and the African Union
...to Nigeria.” Similarly, the OAU condemned the island of Anjouan’s attempt to secede from the Union of the Comoros, imposed sanctions on separatist leaders on the island, and expressed its determination to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a united Comoros. Likewise, the AU declared the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad’s (MNLA) proclamation of independence from Mali “null and of no value.” In doing so, the AU underscored the “fundamental principle of the intangibility of borders inherited by the African countries at their accession to independence,” reiterating...
17 May The Preliminary Objections Judgment of Genocide (Ukraine v Russia): Implications on ‘Packaging and Shoehorning’
...of international law, etc., it does not prohibit such conduct either. An opposite interpretation will, as Russia argued, produce questionable normative outcomes, i.e. reading into the Convention an indefinite number of obligations. If Ukraine’s position is adopted, the Court will be permitted to assess the legality of any measure purportedly taken in response to a breach of a treaty containing the compromissory clause. For example, China could bring various EU member states to the Court under the Genocide Convention for the legality of sanctions against alleged genocide in Xinjiang, had...
23 Jul Beyond Withdrawal: Economic Violence After Turkey Left the Istanbul Convention
...forms of legal and political accountability. The K.Ş. judgment illustrates the continuing importance of constitutional adjudication for state responsibility in violence against women cases, while the 2025 monitoring report shows that civil society and practice-based review can still document failures in the implementation of Law No. 6284. The Foundation for Women’s Solidarity’s (Kadın Dayanışma Vakfı) 2025 monitoring of 203 case files found that protection orders are frequently short-term and inconsistently enforced, that violations rarely result in sanctions, and that ministries declined to provide disaggregated data when formally requested — responding...
23 Jan Uneducating the Girls and Women of Afghanistan
...Taliban’s lack of respect for human rights, particularly the right to education and discrimination against women and girls, contribute to the decision. The international community as a whole should continue to wield the powerful tool of outcasting to undermine Taliban rule. Alongside the steps being taken by the UN Credentials Committee, states as well as other international bodies, NGOs and investors can do this by refusing to recognise the Taliban as legitimate rulers of the country and should continue to predicate external investment, aid and the weakening of sanctions on...
11 Feb Rethinking International Dispute Settlement: Norm Fatigue in a Coercive Hegemonic System
...it does not do so, it only strengthens the legitimacy of the Applicant State and reinforces their victimhood. Brewster terms this as “procedural signalling function” of international adjudication, where States submit claims not for the end of winning but for the means to legitimatise their claims and standing in the conflict. Further, even if the award or final judgment is denied by the Defendant State, it forms a legal basis for imposition of sanctions and diplomatic isolation, thus giving such adjudicatory processes a multiplier effect. 2. Legal Adjudication as Diplomatic...
03 Jun Current Human Rights Concerns in Iran: Women’s Rights and Arbitrary Executions
...the regime’s overall goal of surveillance and control of public life, particularly for women and girls. The draconian and harsh criminal sanctions for failing to comply with compulsory hijab is shocking and unacceptable, and unsurprisingly, the law attracted significant criticism, including from UN human rights experts. On 13 December 2024, a group of UN experts released a statement that ‘[t]he new hijab law marks an intensification of state control over women’s bodies in Iran and is a further assault on women’s rights and freedoms’. States and human rights organisations were...