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international humanitarian law Tag

29 Jul

[Rebecca Bakos Blumenthal is Starvation and Humanitarian Crisis Lead at Global Rights Compliance. Elise Lauriot Prevost is a legal advisor with Global Rights Compliance.] I. Introduction In February 2022, as Russian forces encircled Mariupol and began systematically severing its electricity, water, and food supply, many observers described what was unfolding as unprecedented: a European city of nearly half a million people, deliberately starved into submission. It was...

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27 Jul

[Yiokasti Mouratidi is a Doctoral Candidate at the Swedish Defence University, jointly with Utrecht University] IBM is widely recognised as bringing computers to the masses. But less known is its collaboration with the US military during the Vietnam War, providing computing power to advance data-driven military targeting. This collaboration reportedly included posting 250 IBM employees on overseas assignments to Southeast Asia, tasked with installing and maintaining data...

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21 Jul

[Jimena Sofía Viveros Álvarez is a senior international lawyer and peace and security expert, CEO of IQuilibriumAI, OECD and UNESCO AI Expert, and former Member of the UNSG HLAB and GC-REAIM Commissioner] Contemporary armed conflicts defy the boundaries that construe conservative legal frameworks, and as the threshold has de facto been lowered, distinguishing between war and peace has become increasingly challenging. In light of this,...

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21 Jul

[Gary Corn is a Professor and Director of the Technology, Security and Law Program at American University Washington College of Law. He previously served as a military attorney in the US Army, including as Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) of U.S. Cyber Command] Timely and accurate information is the lifeblood of successful military operations and is often critical to meeting law...

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20 Jul

[Marco Roscini is Professor of International Law at the University of Westminster and a Senior Fellow at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence] Most discussions of military AI and international humanitarian law (IHL) focus on autonomous weapons, targeting decisions and accountability. AI does raise difficult questions concerning compliance with the rules on the conduct of hostilities and the allocation of responsibility when AI-enabled...

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20 Jul

[LtCol Nick Wobma is Deputy Head of the Law Branch at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Maria Tolppa is Law Researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Kubo Mačák is Professor of International Law at the University of Exeter.] Few technologies have had as significant and dramatic an impact on contemporary life as artificial intelligence (AI). The use (and...

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23 Jun

[Ayşe Didem Sezgin is an assistant professor of international law at Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Law, Istanbul] Should an olive tree rooted in occupied Palestine, surviving in the shrinking open-air prison ruled under the Israeli apartheid regime be held differently than any other olive tree rooted anywhere else in the world? Could the uprooting of this olive tree be a testimony...

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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

[Heybatollah Najandimanesh, Associate prof. of International Law, Allameh Tabataba'i  Univeristy, Tehran, Iran] Contemporary armed conflicts increasingly target not only civilians and civilian infrastructure, but also the institutional foundations through which societies preserve, produce, and transmit knowledge. The destruction of centres of learning during war is not a new phenomenon. From the burning of the ancient Library of Alexandria, to the devastation...

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15 Apr

[Melanie O’Brien is Professor of International Law and Deputy Head of School (Research) at the University of Western Australia Law School; and visiting scholar with the University of Minnesota Law School’s Human Rights Center] In June 2023, I wrote here about the defamation case relating to the media reporting on allegations of war crimes by Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith (‘BRS’). The...

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06 Apr

[Oded Hen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on moral philosophy, particularly just war theory and the ethics of modern warfare. His work addresses questions of civilian immunity, legitimate targeting, moral responsibility, and the application of normative principles in contemporary asymmetric conflicts] This post examines the legal and moral responsibilities of the international community...

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10 Feb

[Dr. Joshua Joseph Niyo is Head of Unit and Senior Legal Expert – Africa at the Diakonia International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. He has served as Regional Legal Adviser for the Centre in East and Central Africa, adjunct lecturer at UCLA, UC Irvine, and Pepperdine University, and was a Swiss National Science Foundation Visiting Researcher. His work...

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