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International Human Rights Law

06 Feb

[Ambassador Luis Gallegos is President of the Global Initiative on Ageing and Longevity and the former Board President of UNITAR, where he led UN training efforts advancing aging policy. Jody Heymann is a distinguished professor at UCLA, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Founding Director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, where she led the development of...

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02 Feb

[Diana Kearney is a former Visiting Instructor of Clinical Law at Cardozo Law School Human Rights & Atrocity Prevention Clinic] The Trump administration’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and subsequent announcement that the U.S. intends to run the nation is the administration’s most shocking move to date– a tall order for a President that has generated a steady torrent of...

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22 Jan

[Arunava (Avi) Banerjee is a research assistant at the University of Tartu and an Erasmus Mundus scholar in the International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development (ILGSPD) programme] In February 2025, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR or Court) handed down a unanimous judgement in the case of Centre for Human Rights and Others v. Tanzania (hereinafter...

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20 Jan

[Vashti Ortego is the Global to Local Advocacy Officer at IWRAW Asia Pacific, working on gender equality and women's human rights. She is a transfeminist from the Visayas in the Philippines.] Introduction For more than three decades, the international community has recognized violence against women and girls as a form of gender-based discrimination. This understanding is firmly grounded in the practice of...

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19 Jan

[Debora N. Gunawan is an SJD student at the University of Michigan Law School] In late November 2025, a wave of torrential rains, cyclones, and monsoon-driven storms battered South and Southeast Asia. Devastating floods, landslides, and mudslides ravaged wide swathes of the region, from Sumatra in Indonesia to southern Malaysia, southern Thailand, Sri Lanka, and even the Philippines and Vietnam. Reports...

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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] Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) v. Türkiye (App. nos. 27507/23 and 5797/22) is a pending case before the European Court of...

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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

[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

[Dr Marco Perolini works for the Global Law and Policy Programme of Amnesty International. He is a research and policy specialist in the areas of civic space, the criminalization of dissent, and intersectional discrimination.  Daniel Canales Anzola is a human rights consultant and researcher with over a decade of experience in the not-for-profit sector. He has led investigations and authored reports...

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14 Dec

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law, an Executive Board Member of Airwars, and the Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.] In a New York Times essay published last week, Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense in President Barack Obama’s first term and Director of Homeland Security in his second, seeks...

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