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21 Sep

[Wassim Dbouk is a Research Fellow at the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute at the University of Southampton and serves as a climate negotiator for Lebanon, where he leads on the negotiations on the Just Transition Work Programme.] At the June 2026 climate meetings in Bonn (SB64), I participated in negotiations under the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) that revealed competing...

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21 Sep

[Godfrey Odongo is a nonresident senior fellow with the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council.] Introduction Africa has witnessed several intractable armed conflicts, political crises and upheavals. including examples over the last four decades such as the 1994 Rwandan genocide and previous armed conflicts dating back to the 1990s. The International Committee of the Red Cross estimated in 2025 that Africa...

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19 Sep

The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (IIFFM), created by the Human Rights Council, has released a new report. It's a depressing read, painstakingly cataloging Iran's human-rights violations and analysing two airstrikes carried out by the United States on 28 February 2026 -- the notorious attack on the the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, which...

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18 Sep

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.]The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) released its 18-page report to the Human Rights Council on 17 September 2026. In the report, among other findings, the Mission outlines reasonable grounds to believe that the United...

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18 Sep

[Stephanie Prufer J.D. is a Legal and Policy Officer at OceanCare and holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School and a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment. She was involved in negotiations at the London Convention and London Protocol and the BBNJ Agreement. She previously interned at ITLOS. Dr James Kerry is Chief Scientist at OceanCare and an adjunct Senior...

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17 Sep

[Veronika Vozniuk is a Ukrainian legal and policy professional working on issues related to international humanitarian law, human rights, and the legal consequences of armed conflict.] Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has made significant efforts to investigate and prosecute individuals responsible for war crimes committed on its territory. The scale of the alleged crimes is immense and continues...

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16 Sep

[Madara Meļņika is a PhD Researcher in Law at the European University Institute, where her research examines how international security organisations respond to environmental realities.] In May 2026, the media reported plans for NATO’s AI Centre of Excellence to be established in Rennes, a city already famous for France’s armed forces’ cyber-defence command and other AI institutions. Allegedly, France was the...

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16 Sep

[Amir Abbas Kiani is a collaborating researcher in International Law at Shiraz University, Iran.] On June 17, 2026, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America (U.S.) signed an agreement, formally entitled the ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding’ (MoU), to resolve certain disputes arising from the international armed conflict (IAC) that broke out between them on February 28, 2026,...

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15 Sep

[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...

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14 Sep

[His Excellency Filipo Tarakinikini is the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Fiji to the UN. He has spent more than two decades as an infantry officer and then another two in United Nations service.  Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops is a professor by special appointment of Politics of International Law at the University of Amsterdam and defence counsel before the ICC, having...

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14 Sep

[Viktoryia Konashava is a Legal Researcher with the International Commission of Jurists.] Children who come into contact with the criminal justice system as suspects or accused (often referred to as “children in conflict with the law”) often face significant barriers to the effective exercise of their right to a fair trial, including their right to participate meaningfully in criminal proceedings. These...

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