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20 Feb

[Anji Manivannan is the Legal Director of People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL), where her work contributes to its international justice and genocide recognition efforts] In 2015, two UN documents instilled cautious hope for Tamil victims of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, which ended on May 18, 2009. That September, the UN released a comprehensive human rights investigation on Sri...

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16 Feb

[Ruby Axelson is the Head of Gender and Child Justice at Global Rights Compliance. Tobias Freeman is a senior lawyer working with Global Rights Compliance in Ukraine and member of the IHL Centre's Expert Group on Inclusion. Danielle DerOhannesian is an international lawyer and former prosecutor specialising in child justice and trauma‑informed accountability for conflict‑related crimes against and affecting children.  Mykola Palamar is...

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09 Feb

[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez has a PhD in International Law (Middlesex University, United Kingdom), works at Amnesty International and is Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025) While the International Criminal Court...

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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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09 Jan

[Maud Sarliève and Dr Pauline Martini are associate research fellows at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London] On 4 December 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched its groundbreaking Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage under the Rome Statute: severe environmental harm can now be prosecuted as an international crime. This document represents...

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15 Dec

[Maria Immacolata Fico is a research collaborator at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Juliette Graf is a scientific associate (research and outreach) at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.] This is the second of two posts from a November 2024 roundtable in Geneva on accountability for children in armed conflict. Part 1 examined progress...

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15 Dec

[Maria Immacolata Fico is a research collaborator at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Juliette Graf is a scientific associate (research and outreach) at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.] This is the first of two posts from a November 2024 roundtable in Geneva on accountability for children in armed conflict. Part 1 examines progress...

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08 Dec

[Antonia Mulvey is a British lawyer, and the founder and executive director of Legal Action Worldwide. She has also served as a UN investigator on the Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar and advised UN agencies and governments on sexual and gender-based violence and access to justice.  Terry Flyte is an international lawyer and programme lead at Legal Action Worldwide. He works at...

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08 Dec

[Alice Autin is international justice researcher at Human Rights Watch.  Jörn Oliver Eiermann served as senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch from September to November 2025.] The December 2024 fall of the Bashar al-Assad government marks a historic turning point for Syria, and after decades of atrocities, potentially for justice. Despite extensive information and evidence of serious crimes, the Assad...

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05 Nov

[Helen Duffy runs Human Rights in Practice and is a professor of human rights and humanitarian law at the University of Leiden. Karolína Babická is a Senior Legal Adviser at the International Commission of Jurists] Human Rights in Practice and the International Commission of Jurists have earlier this year published a report, Justice Under Pressure: Strategic Litigation of Judicial Independence in Europe, that maps the...

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28 Jul

[Thairi Moya Sánchez (PhD) is a full-time professor of public international law at Complutense University of Madrid. Simón Gómez-Guaimara is an adjunct professor of public international law at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas and works as a human rights and international justice consultant.] Since 2007, Nicaragua has descended into a spiral of repression under Daniel Ortega’s rule. Popular discontent culminated in...

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