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28 Jul

[Tomas Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam] In parallel proceedings in Paris and New York, the French corporation Lafarge SA (‘Lafarge’) has recently faced allegations surrounding its dealings with terrorist groups Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (‘ISIL’) and Al-Nusra Front (‘ANF’). In the context of Lafarge’s cement operations during the...

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28 Jul

[Bruno Biazatti is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law and a PhD candidate at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.] The author attended the Ljubljana Diplomatic Conference and the observations contained here reflect his personal notes taken during the negotiations. The Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on International Cooperation in the...

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27 Jul

[Pamela Capizzi is the Head of Pool of Legal Expertise at TRIAL International. Hugo Relva is Legal Adviser for Amnesty International (International Secretariat) at the International Justice Team.] Pamela and Hugo participated in the negotiations of the Ljubljana-The Hague Convention in May 2023 on behalf of TRIAL International and Amnesty International, respectively. On 26 May 2023, the Ljubljana-The Hague Convention on International Cooperation in the...

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26 Jul

[Raquel Saavedra is an international human rights attorney specializing in accountability for atrocity crimes and currently serves as an International Legal Adviser for the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in the Asia-Pacific region.  Lina Baddour is an attorney specializing in international criminal and human rights law and policy. She represents clients in international proceedings and serves as a Senior Legal Advisor (consultant)...

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25 Jul

[Juana Acosta-López is an Associate Professor at Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia).] This post has been previously published in Spanish on the Agenda Estado de Derecho blog Recently, a press release titled "IACHR warns against regressive measures in the field of health that impact trans and intersex youth in the United States of America" was issued. This statement is published in a...

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25 Jul

[Vaios Koutroulis is a Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, Université libre de Bruxelles] Vaios Koutroulis was a member of the Belgian delegation participating in the negotiations of the Convention and acted as the coordinator of working group 1 at the Ljubljana conference, where the Convention was negotiated and adopted. The views in this post...

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24 Jul

[Priya Pillai is an international lawyer, heads the Asia Justice Coalition secretariat and is a contributing editor at Opinio Juris.] She participated in the MLAT negotiations in Ljubljana, Slovenia on behalf of the Asia Justice Coalition. All views are personal. On 26 May 2023, the Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crime of Genocide,...

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24 Jul

[Viola Santini is an MA student in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She has actively participated in multiple Human Rights Council sessions, working alongside the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to UNOG and the Advocacy team of Human Rights Watch. Currently, she is interning with the Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Security team at UNDP, and working as a research...

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23 Jul

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com! Calls for Papers Misappropriation and Human Rights Implosion Symposium: The Academy for European Human Rights Protection of the University of Cologne, Germany, in collaboration with the Volkswagen Foundation, organises the symposium 'Misappropriation and Human Rights Implosion', which will take place between...

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21 Jul

[Waleed Mahmoud Elfarrs, PhD Candidate in international law at Ghent University, is a legal expert consulting on armed conflict in the context of the MENA region.] [Mona Ghyoot is a Master in Laws student at Ghent University, specializing in public international law and writing a master’s thesis on universal jurisdiction.] 1.     Introduction On 12 May 2023, the French Court of Cassation delivered two landmark decisions on the...

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20 Jul

[Yaroslav Halieiev is a second-year Master's student at the University of Tartu and a legal researcher on the Platform for Peace and Humanity.] The Regulation of Same-Sex Marriages in Ukraine: General Remarks The Case of Maymulakhin and Markiv v. Ukraine has extreme significance for Ukranian legislature and most likely will spark more fruitful (hopefully) discussion in the nearest future. Meanwhile, it is essential to explore the frame...

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19 Jul

Photograph: Karla Marshall, ‘Helmand River with the Boghra Irrigation Canal (Nahr-e Bughra) in the middle distance and the town of Gereshk (Grishk) in the far distance, Helmand Province.’ (2011) [Laurence Teillet is a PhD Candidate at Nottingham Law School, focusing on environmental activists prosecutions and convictions for piracy. With LLMs in International and Comparative Environmental Law, and Natural Resources Law, her...

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