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16 Jan

[Nina Keese and Dr. Beril Önder are members of the legal team of the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project, a Middlesex University School of Law–based initiative focused on strategic litigation, research, and advocacy] This post has been translated into Turkish and published on Kaos GL. Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) v. Türkiye (App. nos. 27507/23...

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15 Jan

[Sanmay Moitra is a research assistant at ‘Human Rights in Practice’ and an Advanced LLM candidate at Leiden University. He has previously studied international law at the University of Oxford and Georgetown University.] The UN’s Human Rights chief – Volker Turk – delivered a scathing condemnation on 14th November, of the international community’s inaction on the situation in Sudan noting that...

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15 Jan

[Anna Maria Puigderrajols Triadó is a PhD candidate at the Europa Law Institute of Leiden University, where she previously completed the Advanced LL.M. in European and international human rights law] In July 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in its landmark judgement in Ukraine and the Netherlands v Russia, was given a unique opportunity to deal with the...

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14 Jan

[Federico Jarast is Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos at Buenos Aires University School of Law. He has served as Legal Adviser at the General Direction of Legal Affairs of the Argentine Presidency and worked as an Associate at Guglielmino Derecho Internacional.] In less than a week, 2026 has proved that it will spare no efforts in shaking the foundations of international law. For...

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14 Jan

[Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and lecturer specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security] A short video clip circulating online appears to show a US strike on a small vessel at sea, followed by imagery that has been read as suggesting that there were survivors in the water. The clip has...

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08 Jan

[Yifat Susskind is the Executive Director of MADRE, an international human rights organization dedicated to meeting urgent needs in communities facing crisis and using the human rights framework to create durable social change] For women, girls, and LGBTQI+ persons in Afghanistan, the struggle for justice has never been more urgent. With each passing day, the Taliban is consolidating power while the...

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07 Jan

[Audrey Plan is a Research Engagement Specialist at University College Dublin, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and specialises in sociolegal research of international courts.] Nuremberg (2025) is the latest attempt to put the first, and arguably most famous, International Criminal Law (ICL) trial on the silver screen. Released in November...

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06 Jan

[Junius O. Williams is a third-year J.D. candidate at NYU School of Law, where he is an Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) Scholar and a Salzburg Lloyd N. Cutler Fellow] On 9 September 2025, Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (“the GERD”), Africa’s largest hydropower project and the culmination of over a decade of planning and construction. At...

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06 Jan

[Milena Sterio is James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law and Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group] The United States’ attack on Venezuela, as well as the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, have no justification in international law or international relations. This post will first discuss...

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