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02 Aug

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 Participants – Geneva Trade Week’s Curated Conversations: On 16 September 2026, a Curated Conversation on “The Role of Secretariats in IOs’ Activities” will take place at the WTO within the framework of the Public Forum—Geneva Trade Week.We...

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31 Jul

[Chantal Joris is a Swiss qualified lawyer and the acting Head of Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19. Dr Ilia Siatitsa is Programme Director at Privacy International. Tomaso Falchetta is Global Advocacy Coordinator at Privacy International.] On 15–17 June 2026, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)  hosted the first Informal Exchange on Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security....

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30 Jul

[Dr. Matthew Gillett is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Essex and the Chair Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Rohit Gupta is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne and a Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy.] Introduction The first of...

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30 Jul

[Dr. Matthew Gillett is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Essex and the Chair Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Rohit Gupta is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne and a Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy.] Introduction Is it misanthropic...

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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.] Siege Tactics in Syria This article traces Russia’s use of siege warfare and the deliberate starvation of civilians, field-tested across the Syrian conflict and then deployed against Mariupol. Part II examines the siege of Yarmouk camp, now the subject of pending criminal proceedings...

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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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28 Jul

[Moisés A. Montiel is a Venezuelan-Mexican international lawyer, focusing on the law of sources and teaching international law at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas at Mexico City] For nearly sixty years, the parties to the Guyana-Venezuela controversy have disagreed not only about who owns the Esequibo, but about what the dispute between them actually entails. The submission of this controversy to the International Court...

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28 Jul

[Lena Raxter is an Adjunct Professor at American University, Washington College of Law] Introduction The International Law Commission (ILC), during its seventy-sixth session in May 2025, provisionally adopted the first-reading draft conclusions on subsidiary means for the determination of rules of international law. Among them, Draft Conclusion 6 [7] addresses the absence of legally binding precedent in international law, providing that: Decisions of international courts or tribunals...

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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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27 Jul

[John B. Quigley is Professor Emeritus at the Moritz College of Law of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio USA] On October 3, 1923, a telegram marked “urgent” was sent to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, Eric Drummond, in Geneva. It read: “may h[is] m[ajesty’s] g[overnment] assume officially that mandate for Palestine entered into force as from September...

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23 Jul

[Fahimeh Heydari Torkabad is a Ph.D. Candidate in International Law at Allameh Tabataba'i University and a Lecturer at Kharazmi University] On March 1, 2026, blast waves from a missile strike targeting the Arg Square judicial complex in Tehran reached the Golestan Palace, shattering nineteenth-century stained glass and fracturing its iconic Mirror Hall. UNESCO countered the geopolitical rhetoric by declaring that Golestan Palace represents the irreplaceable story of...

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23 Jul

[Dr Çiğdem İleri Köksal is a lawyer based in Hamburg and received her PhD from Bucerius Law School in Germany. Dr. Işıl Kurnaz is a scholar in international human rights law based in Pisa and holds a PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy.] Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by Presidential Decision published in the Official Gazette on 20 March 2021 generated an...

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