[Neil Cameron is a barrister and an Affiliate Scholar at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University.] On the evening of 1 September a United States glide bomb came through the roof of a house in Kuhestak, a small port town on the Iranian shore of the Strait of Hormuz, where about 150 women and children were waiting for...
[Mohammad Zayaan Asimi is a D.Phil. candidate in socio-legal studies at the University of Oxford.] Introduction Internet services in Pakistan-administered Kashmir (Kashmir) were severely restricted since 5th June 2026 after widespread protests in the region linked to electoral reforms and other socio-political demands of the people. More than forty people were killed, and hundreds were wounded after the army and police forces...
[Dr Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University working on migration related topics.] When around 80,000 people (according to the Spanish government) crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in early August, reactions quickly framed the event as a test of the EU’s border control and policy and the solidarity amongst its member states (for a...
[Lara Torbay is a PhD candidate at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.] Recent developments in Gaza reveal the ways in which development cooperation – a putative expression of solidarity – can function as a neocolonial tool. Of course, the weaponization of development cooperation is not new: post-development scholars have highlighted and criticized it arguing that, against colonized peoples, development cooperation cannot...
[Mehmet Sercan Ercan is an independent researcher with a PhD in Public Law, working in the fields of general public law and constitutional law.] International legal norms already exist. What is missing is the institutional capacity to enforce them in situations of mass atrocity. The post-Cold War era nurtured the ambition to transform humanitarian intervention into a universal standard, later conceptualized...
[Bashar AlHadla is a human rights researcher and educator specializing in international human rights law, refugee protection, and nationality law. He holds graduate degrees from Union University in Belgrade, the University of Toronto, and the University of London.] In February 2026, the United States Central Command announced the completion of transferring 5,700 ISIS terrorist fighters from detention camps in north-eastern Syria...
[Subinoy Mustofi Eron is Design Director at Netra News and a co-founder of Activate Rights, a Bangladesh-based digital rights collective. Georgia Edwards is Visual Investigations Training & Partnerships Manager at WITNESS. Dean Issacharoff is the creator of VSIN, an AI powered visual investigations platform.] Introduction In July 2024, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis took to the streets in an uprising against Sheikh Hasina’s government....
[Shanice R. Guthrie is a law student at Yale Law School ‘27 and the Student Director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. Born and raised in Jamaica, she brings a personal understanding of climate harm to her work on legal accountability.] The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic partnered with WITNESS to conduct original research on the use of audiovisual evidence...
[Fredah Kanampiu is a journalist in Kenya and a cohort member of WITNESS’ Fortifying Community Truth (FCT) East Africa cohort. Mwara Gichanga is a Communications & Engagement Coordinator for WITNESS and part of the Fortifying Community Truth project, led by the Training & Partnerships team. Skye Jacob Krabbendam is a student and Seppe Duffhues, Amina Hindawi, Kieran O’Kelly, Suzy-Anne Beekman, and Stella Poulain...
[Natalie Hornos is a Program Manager at WITNESS with over 17 years of experience coordinating social impact, educommunicative, and investigative audiovisual projects across Brazil and Latin America. A specialist in community cinema, she holds a postgraduate degree in Anthropology and is currently a Master’s in Latin American Studies.] Introduction to Revide REVIDE – VIDEO SCHOOL FOR THE DEFENSE OF TERRITORIES - is...
[Claire Beutter is a PhD Candidate in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute.] Writing for the New York Times in 1965, Hans Morgenthau expressed his hope that the “vaunted pragmatism and common sense of the American mind” would correct the dangerous misconceptions driving US involvement in Vietnam, “before they lead us from the blind alley in which we find ourselves...
[Francisco Javier Rozas Porras is a Spanish lawyer and PhD researcher in international law of the sea at the DEHUKAM Institute / Ankara University. He holds an LL.M. in Maritime Law from ICADE University in Madrid, Spain.] Introduction In 2026, Spain’s migration policy features a striking paradox. The Government has launched one of the most ambitious regularization processes in Europe on land,...