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16 Jun

[Elizabeth Tan is the Director of UNHCR’s Division of International Protection and Solutions] In 1951, in the aftermath of one of the most devastating wars the world had ever known, the international community recognized the need for international cooperation, grounded in law and humanity, for people who had fled their countries in need of safety and protection. In response, States adopted...

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16 Jun

[Massimo Frigo is a Senior Policy Officer in the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (DIPS) at the UNHCR. Cornelis (Kees) Wouters is a Senior Refugee Law Adviser in the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (DIPS) at the UNHCR.] Seventy-five years is a veteran age for everyone; even for a multilateral treaty. It is sufficient time to live through paradigmatic changes,...

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10 Jun

[Lavinia Stoppani is a recent graduate of the LL.B. programme in International and European Law at the University of Groningen, with research interests in environmental law and treaty interpretation] Introduction In a dissenting opinion to the 1977 Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros case, Judge Herczegh argued that where uncertainty exists between short term economic loss and potentially irreversible environmental harm, the latter ought to carry greater weight;...

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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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08 Jun

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] If global risk has become the defining condition of contemporary international law, its most immediate and consequential expression lies in human vulnerability. Climate change destabilises ecological systems, technological innovation diffuses agency and outpaces control – yet it is through human exposure...

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03 Jun

[MohammadMehdi SeyedNasseri has a PhD in Public International Law from Islamic Azad University, UAE Branch (Dubai) and is a Researcher at the Center for Ethics and Law Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. Savalan Mohammadzadeh is a PhD candidate in public international law at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran and secretary of the Youth Committee of the Iranian Association for United Nations...

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01 Jun

[Deborah Ruiz Verduzco is  Executive Director of the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Prior to her appointment, she was Director of the Secretariat of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. She previously led the Civil Society Development Department at the International Commission on Missing Persons, served as Special Assistant to two Presidents of...

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29 May

[Natalia Kubesch is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS, focussing on asset recovery and the repurposing of assets frozen under Magnitsky Sanctions for the purpose of human rights reparations, and leading REDRESS’ universal jurisdiction work. Prior to this, Natalia practiced at two large international law firms in London, working on complex financial crime investigations and litigations, and advised on compliance with international sanction regimes.  Lyra Nightingale is...

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29 May

[Professor Luke Moffett is chair of human rights and international humanitarian law at Queen's University Belfast. He is author of Justice for Victims before the International Criminal Court (Routledge 2014), Reparations and War (OUP 2023), and Algorithms of War (BUP 2026)] As the war in Ukraine drags into its fifth year (or thirteenth if you look back to Russia’s original invasion),...

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28 May

Illia Chernohorenko served as Director-General for the Rule of Law Directorate at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, consulted the President of Ukraine on legal reform, and worked at the Supreme Court, representing it in the ECtHR’s Superior Courts Network. He is currently pursuing a DPhil on repurposing state assets as redress for human rights violations. In recent years, he...

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28 May

Cristián Correa is the Head of the Reparations Praxis Hub at the Global Survivors Fund (GSF), where he helps systematise and encourage learning from practical experiences of reparation for survivors of conflict related sexual violence. He also provides guidance to GSF work in Colombia, Syria, and Ukraine, where he helped design and implement the Pilot Project on Urgent Interim Reparation...

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27 May

[Albina Basysta is an Associate Professor of International law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations. She advises a member of Ukrainian Parliament on human rights and international humanitarian law; co-author of Law 4067 on urgent interim reparation for CRSV survivors in Ukraine, developed in consultations with survivors] In situations where harm involves mass...

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