Wayne Jordash, Catriona Murdoch, Joe Holmes, Strategies for Prosecuting Mass Starvation, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Journal of International Criminal Justice (2019), available...
The Sudan government is using aid in the pursuit of a far-reaching strategy of social and political transformation, creating displacement and hunger—with the ready connivance of the UN and NGOs. Effective famine prevention in Sudan means challenging the charitable...
Famine is a violation of human rights and is preventable. While humanitarian aid focuses on treating the symptoms of famine, governments should instead be required to cease perpetuating the abuses which are creating and perpetuating the famine. Requiring...
This is a detailed account of the 1985-89 period of conflict in southern Sudan and the Sudanese government’s use of famine as a weapon of war. The Sudan government regularly blocked food from reaching civilians and diverted food aid to its army. The liberal...
Operation Restore Hope, the US-led effort to allow for the delivery of humanitarian supplies in Somalia from 1992-93, was a failure because it failed to account for or address human rights concerns. Failure to consider human rights in famine relief creates the...
Al Bashir and the Sudanese government have been indiscriminately brutal in their conduct of the war in southern Sudan. The famine of 1986-89 was primarily caused by deliberate policies adopted by the SPLA and the Sudanese government. The Reagan and Bush...
From 1961 to 1991, the Ethiopian government consistently carried out a campaign of indiscriminate violence towards civilians and pursued a counter-insurgency strategy in the 1980s that was the primary cause of the great famine of 1983-85. The famine was not caused...
The newly published book 'Defense Perspectives on International Criminal Justice' examines the role of the defense in international criminal proceedings, providing an assessment of the current challenges to the guarantee of fair and efficient criminal proceedings....
In its primary use, the verb ‘to starve’ is transitive: it’s something people do to one another, like torture or murder. Mass starvation as a consequence of the weather has very nearly disappeared: today’s famines are all caused by political decisions, yet...
Famine is preventable. The persistence of famine reflects political failings by African governments, western donors and international relief agencies. Can Africa avoid famine? When freedom from famine is a basic right or a political imperative, famine is prevented....