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accountability Tag

15 Dec

[Maria Immacolata Fico is a research collaborator at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Juliette Graf is a scientific associate (research and outreach) at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.] This is the second of two posts from a November 2024 roundtable in Geneva on accountability for children in armed conflict. Part 1 examined progress...

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15 Dec

[Maria Immacolata Fico is a research collaborator at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Juliette Graf is a scientific associate (research and outreach) at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.] This is the first of two posts from a November 2024 roundtable in Geneva on accountability for children in armed conflict. Part 1 examines progress...

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08 Dec

[Antonia Mulvey is a British lawyer, and the founder and executive director of Legal Action Worldwide. She has also served as a UN investigator on the Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar and advised UN agencies and governments on sexual and gender-based violence and access to justice.  Terry Flyte is an international lawyer and programme lead at Legal Action Worldwide. He works at...

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08 Dec

[Alice Autin is international justice researcher at Human Rights Watch.  Jörn Oliver Eiermann served as senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch from September to November 2025.] The December 2024 fall of the Bashar al-Assad government marks a historic turning point for Syria, and after decades of atrocities, potentially for justice. Despite extensive information and evidence of serious crimes, the Assad...

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05 Nov

[Helen Duffy runs Human Rights in Practice and is a professor of human rights and humanitarian law at the University of Leiden. Karolína Babická is a Senior Legal Adviser at the International Commission of Jurists] Human Rights in Practice and the International Commission of Jurists have earlier this year published a report, Justice Under Pressure: Strategic Litigation of Judicial Independence in Europe, that maps the...

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28 Jul

[Thairi Moya Sánchez (PhD) is a full-time professor of public international law at Complutense University of Madrid. Simón Gómez-Guaimara is an adjunct professor of public international law at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas and works as a human rights and international justice consultant.] Since 2007, Nicaragua has descended into a spiral of repression under Daniel Ortega’s rule. Popular discontent culminated in...

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18 Jul

[Dr Sarah Katharina Stein, LL.M. (Columbia) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg, Germany. She holds a PhD focussing on public international law and PMSCs from Ludwigs-Maximilans-University Munich.] Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have been part of the global security architecture for some while now, however, they still outpace the...

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18 Jul

[Ara Marcén Naval is a Spanish human rights advocate and policy expert with over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of conflict, human rights, corruption, and accountability. She has advised governments, UN agencies, and civil society organisations, and recently contributed to international efforts to regulate private military and security companies.] In today’s wars, power wears a suit and profit pulls...

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18 Jul

[Adrián Agenjo is a Clerk at the Constitutional Court of Spain] The views expressed in this article are the author’s alone and do not represent any institutional affiliation. The increasing presence of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) in modern conflict- zones has prompted critical questions regarding accountability, particularly when personnel from these entities commit international crimes. Who is held responsible for their actions? This article argues...

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17 Jul

[Darío Bürky Arellano holds an MA in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute] On 6 May 2025, a new bill was presented to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: the “Draft Law on International Activities of Private Law Legal Entities in the Military and Security Spheres” (“Draft Law on PMSCs”). The proposal was referred to the parliament’s Committee on National Security, Defense, and Intelligence, and...

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17 Jul

[Lindsay Freeman is the director of the Technology, Law & Policy program at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law. She led the drafting of the United Nations’ Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations and developed the OSINT training course for the Institute of International Criminal Investigations. She previously worked for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and served as a...

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