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04 Feb

[Laura Nyirinkindi is Chair of the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls and a Senior Managing Consultant at Pro Initiatives Legal and Human Rights Agency] The UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (WGDAWG) has continually expressed concerns that, despite women and girls' diverse experiences and realities, including their distinct vulnerabilities and assets, structural barriers and entrenched...

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04 Feb

[Dr Nilüfer Oral is a Director at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, Member of the UN International Law Commission and Co-Chair of the ILC Study Group on Sea Level Rise Rashmi Raman is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore] Introduction  In 2019, as the International Law Commission (ILC) celebrated its 70th anniversary,...

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04 Feb

[Professor Hélène Tigroudja is a professor at Aix-Marseille University, visiting Professor at the Centre for International Law of National University of Singapore and Member of the UN Human Rights Committee] The opinions are expressed in the author's personal capacity. The General Recommendation No. 40 on the equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems (hereafter, GR40) adopted by the CEDAW...

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03 Feb

[Claudia Martin is a Co-Director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law and a Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat.] General Recommendation 40 (‘GR 40’), adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (‘CEDAW’), provides a roadmap to address the persistent failure of equal and inclusive sharing of power in...

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03 Feb

[Nicole Ameline is a former Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Chair of the GR40 Drafting Group and former Minister of Parity and Equality at Work (2002-2005), France.] We extend our gratitude to GQUAL for its critical, high-quality, and innovative contribution to the development of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 40 (GR 40) on the...

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03 Feb

[María Noel Leoni is Deputy Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and Director and Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat  Alejandra Vicente is Head of Law at REDRESS and Founding Member of GQUAL’s Secretariat] International decision-making systems are fundamental to international cooperation, shaping political consensus, and establishing legal standards and accountability mechanisms on critical issues such as human...

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02 Feb

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Call for Applications Sustainability and Public Law: The "Sustainability and Public Law" PhD project, part of the Radboud Research Centre for State and Law (SteR), would like to invite you to a doctoral workshop exploring questions of sustainability in...

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31 Jan

[Maria Crippa is a postdoctoral fellow in international criminal law at the University of Milan and a visiting researcher at the University of Tilburg. Matteo Colorio is a PhD candidate in international law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and a visiting researcher at the University of Tilburg.] Introduction Osama Elmasry Njeem, also known as Elmasry, was arrested in Italy on...

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30 Jan

[Dr Eitan Diamond serves as Manager and Senior Legal Expert at the Diakonia IHL Centre in Jerusalem. Dr Ellen Nohle serves as a Senior Legal Advisor and Legal Team Coordinator at the Diakonia IHL Centre in Jerusalem.   Anna-Christina Schmidl serves as a Legal Advisor at the Diakonia IHL Centre in Jerusalem.] Introduction Between 7 October 2023, when hostilities broke out in Israel and Gaza,...

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30 Jan

[Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London] Following the re-election of Donald Trump, the American technology elite has embraced its growing global power. They have always held significant power but now it is out in the open. And with this greater visibility comes a peculiar, dark narrative, cultivated by some of the more vocal tech elites....

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29 Jan

[Dr Patrick Kroker is senior legal advisor with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, where he is responsible for the center's work on accountability for crimes in Syria. He is a German-qualified attorney and, in this capacity, regularly represents survivors of international crimes in UJ investigations and trials, including in the first case on Syrian state torture in...

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28 Jan

The inimitable Sam Moyn and I have a chapter on the Vietnam War and international law in the Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3, Endings and Aftermaths, which was just published by Cambridge University Press. Here are the opening paragraphs: There have been thousands of histories of the Vietnam War, but none assigns a pivotal role to international law....

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