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10 Jun

[Dr. Nafees Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in International Refugee Law and Human Right), and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi. Saif Ali is an advocate at the Delhi High Court, New Delhi and holds a BALLB, and LL.M (International Law).] The expression “gendered starvation” illustrates how intentional or methodical denial of food, water,...

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09 Jun

[Sabrina Ochoa is a Fellow at the Institute for Current World Affairs (ICWA), a graduate of Harvard Law School, and a licensed member of the New York bar] In April 2026, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court released its judgment on the challenge to the Court’s jurisdiction in the case of The Prosecutor v. Rodrigo Roa Duterte in the Situation in the Republic...

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08 Jun

[Thairi Moya Sánchez is Professor of Public International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid] In Aeschylus’ tragedy Eumenides, the transition frompersonalvengeance to adjudication before a newly constituted court dramatizes a foundational intuition of the rule of law, namely that even the gravest conflicts ought to be resolved through a visible, constrained and reasoned institutional sequence rather than by discretionary power....

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25 May

[Ana Cutts Dougherty is a Legal Consultant at REDRESS, an NGO based in London and The Hague that seeks justice and reparation for survivors of serious international crimes and human rights violations. Katya Ravinska is a Legal Officer at REDRESS.  Alejandro Rodríguez-Díaz is a Legal Officer at REDRESS.  Julie Bardèche is a Senior Legal Advisor at REDRESS. Lyra Nightingale is a Senior Legal Advisor...

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24 Apr

[Sayed Hussein Anosh is the Executive Director of Human Rights Defenders Plus (HRD+). Kate McInnes practices international human rights law and international criminal law at Arendt Chambers.] Gender persecution has been the defining feature of Taliban rule since its return to power in 2021. Afghan women and girls continue to be subjected to what commentators have described as one of the worst reversals of rights...

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23 Apr

[Chuka Arinze-Onyia is a doctoral student researching universal jurisdiction at Griffith University Law School] Only weeks after the Nigerian government entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the ICC to prosecute crimes committed by Boko Haram and the Nigerian military, the Nigerian Airforce on 11 April 2026, launched airstrikes that killed over 100 people and injured several others. There will be...

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22 Apr

[Rafael Braga da Silva is a Brazilian-Portuguese criminal and human rights lawyer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in international human rights and criminal law before tribunals including the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office and the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals] Introduction Twenty-five years ago, the Portuguese-speaking world was present at the founding of the modern international criminal justice system. Lusophone states...

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06 Apr

[Paola Gaeta is a Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute] For many years, I have worked on international criminal law, but I have only touched upon the interaction between arrest warrants and peace processes in earlier work. I also recall the debates following the arrest warrant against President Al Bashir and the African Union’s requests for a deferral...

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27 Mar

[Natasa Mavronicola is a Professor of Human Rights Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham; co-editor of Coercive Human Rights: Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the ECHR (Hart 2020); author of Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs (Hart 2021). Mattia Pinto is a lecturer at York Law...

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27 Mar

[Pablo Gavira-Díaz is a Spanish lawyer specializing in international humanitarian law and international criminal law. He holds a PhD in public international law from the University of Kiel and currently works as a Project Officer at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy] Introduction The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 following the withdrawal of U.S. forces and other allies from...

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26 Mar

[Andreina Nicoletti is a PhD candidate at the Centre d’études internationales et européennes (CEIE), at the University of Strasbourg. Her research focuses on the institution, the use and the effects of the veto power by the permanent members (P5) of the United Nations Security Council] On the early morning of January 3, 2026, Nicolás Maduro Moros and his wife Cilia Flores...

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26 Mar

[Quazi Omar Foysal is a Bangladeshi-qualified international lawyer, currently pursuing PhD at La Trobe University, Australia] Following the fall of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024, the interim government had three options to pursue accountability for the atrocious crimes that preceded that development. These included referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the establishment of an ad...

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