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Myanmar Tag

21 Oct

[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar's Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and India.]  In Part I, I described the elaborate system of permits, arbitrary taxes, village labor quotas, and...

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21 Oct

[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar's Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and India.]  Rohingya fleeing Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State pay $300 to $500 for documents to get past Arakan...

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28 Sep

[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and been a rapporteur for Oxford International Organizations. You can contact her via email.] Introduction This post concludes a series of three. Following an introduction that described the parse mention in the...

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28 Sep

[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and been a rapporteur for Oxford International Organizations. You can contact her via email.]  Introduction This post is the second in a series of three in which I advocate for reconsideration of...

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28 Sep

[Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány holds a Ph.D. in public international law from Leiden University. She is an independent researcher and has worked, inter alia, at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and been a rapporteur for Oxford International Organizations. You can contact her via email.] Introduction Contrary to the earlier genocide cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ or the Court) against...

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11 Aug

[Phil Orchard is Professor in International Relations, Head of Discipline, Politics and International Studies and Co-Director of the Future of Rights Centre in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. Mareen Brosinsky is Associate Lecturer and PhD Candidate in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in New South...

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10 Aug

[Antonia Mulvey is a British lawyer, and the founder and executive director of Legal Action Worldwide.] International law, international justice institutions, and human rights are under extraordinary pressure as conflicts are increasing and displacement is at record levels. Using the law to protect rights and demand justice has rarely been more important, or more difficult. The Rohingya accountability effort shows both the possibilities and the limits of...

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05 May

[Sakhawat Sajjat Sejan is Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, UITS and Founder of the Bangladesh Center for Refugee Law Studies. Md. Omar Farque is a Lecturer in Law at Eastern University, Bangladesh and the Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Refugee Law Studies.] Bangladesh is neither a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention nor its 1967 Protocol, yet it...

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21 Apr

[Marianne Crielle G. Vitug is a Legal Fellow at the Global Justice Center (GJC)] In January 2026, the International Court of Justice held hearings on the merits in the case concerning the Application on the Convention Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar). While the proceedings are historic in many respects, one notable yet...

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25 Mar

[Muhammad Tanvir Hashem Munim is a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, a Counsel of the International Criminal Court, an Advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a defence counsel at the International Crimes Tribunal – Bangladesh (ICT-BD). He is a Lecturer on the Bar Training Course at the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol] Introduction It’s...

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25 Aug

[Nick Leddy is Head of Litigation at Legal Action Worldwide, and a former Trial Lawyer for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, where he worked, inter alia, on the situation in Myanmar/Bangladesh] Six years ago, in August 2017, the Myanmar military began a deadly operation in Rakhine State targeting the Rohingya group. This “Clearance Operation” caused incredible...

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