In association with the International Commission of Jurists

International Humanitarian Law

08 Oct

[Annick Pijnenburg is Assistant Professor of international and European law at Radboud University Nijmegen. Michiel Tjepkema is Professor of administrative law at Radboud University and Professor of state liability at the Open University. Casper Smeulders is a PhD candidate at the Department of Jurisprudence, Radboud University.] The ongoing hostilities in Gaza since 7 October 2023, which have increasingly been characterised as constituting genocide...

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02 Oct

With contributions from Mohsen al Attar, Brendan Ciarán Browne, Shahd Hammouri, Nawal Hend, Ata Hindi, and Ali Osman Karaoğlu The Gaza Riviera: Colonial Fantasy Masquerading as Peace Both the American president, Donald Trump, and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, caught the headlines this week, with much of mainstream media publicising the offering of a “peace plan” to the Palestinians. The European...

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19 Sep

[Tais W. Davis works at a national security think tank in Washington, D.C., where she leads strategic communications, conducts policy research, and supports projects on artificial intelligence, strategic competition, and European security. She holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs (U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, Europe concentration) from American University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with...

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19 Sep

[Louisa Handel-Mazzetti is an Assistant Professor at the Royal Netherlands Defense Academy (NLDA) and a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University] In May 2025, President Trump unveiled the 175 billion dollar plan to build the Golden Dome missile shield, originally introduced in January 2025. Drawing inspiration from Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’) and...

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17 Sep

[Kushtrim Istrefi is associate professor of public international law and human rights law at Utrecht University and coordinator of the Research Platform on Peace, Security and Human Rights] On 5 September 2025, a group of 45 United Nations human rights experts, composed of UN Special Rapporteurs, UN independent experts and UN Working Group members, called the UN General Assembly to invoke...

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15 Aug

[Dr. Mais Qandeel is an Associate Professor of International Law at Örebro University, Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. in international humanitarian law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.] The Israeli ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is not disconnected from the killings, torture, forcible transfer by Israeli military and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. It is...

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08 Aug

[Donna Cline is a US-licensed criminal practitioner and lead for the Environment Mobile Justice Team at Global Rights Compliance, where she works closely with Ukrainian prosecutors to ensure accountability for war crimes. Julia Tétrault-Provencher is a Canadian lawyer (Quebec Bar) and international lawyer with the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Mobile Justice Team at Global Rights Compliance in Ukraine.] Legal practitioners and scholars...

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04 Aug

[Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and Visiting Scholar with the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School.] Many people are asking the question, ‘is genocide happening in Gaza?’. The question was explored in the media in the early days after 7 October 2023...

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01 Aug

[Greta Ramelli is an international law jurist specializing in international criminal law, and has worked across governmental and non-governmental sectors] The first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances (WCED) was held in Geneva on January 15-16. This historic event brought together state representatives, victims, civil society organizations, international bodies, and experts to foster dialogue and strengthen the fight against enforced disappearances. I participated...

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31 Jul

[Yaser Salarain is a lawyer and international law expert at the School of International Relations, Tehran] The protracted conflict in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) has consistently tested the limits of international humanitarian law (IHL) and, more specifically, the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (GCIV). Despite repeated UNGA resolutions and diplomatic initiatives,...

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29 Jul

[Aakash Chandran (X: @ChandranAakash is the Legal Advocacy and Communications Manager at Asia Justice Coalition.] The international community is currently navigating a turbulent phase marked by armed conflicts, aggression, and manifest violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law. The situation in South, Southeast, and East Asia also continues to present alarming developments, including the escalating situation in Myanmar, exacerbated...

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