Outcome Document: 2022 Protection of Civilians Week: Side Event on Conflict and Hunger
News Features and Blogs
News Features and Blogs
Commemorating Starvation in the 21st Century
Commemorating Starvation in the 21st Century
Famine memorials have, up to now, focused on starvation as an outcome or an experience. A memorial that tried to evoke starvation as a criminal act that people do to one another would not just relate to the victims, but also to the perpetrators, their accomplices,...
Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan
Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan
In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "world's greatest humanitarian crisis." Twenty years previously, Darfur was also the site of a disastrous famine. Famine that Kills is a seminal account of that famine, and a social history of the region. In a new preface...
Ending Starvation Crimes
Ending Starvation Crimes
As 2019 begins and the number of victims of starvation spirals into the millions, we must urgently address how we can strengthen our collective response to deter such conduct. Global Rights Compliance Wayne Jordash QC and Catriona Murdoch talk with the Diplomat...
Will Seven Million Starting Yemenis ever find Justice?
Will Seven Million Starting Yemenis ever find Justice?
Catriona Murdoch and Wayne Jordash discuss whether the control of food imports into Yemen are being used as a weapon of war, seemingly by all sides.
Is International Starvation the Future of War?
Is International Starvation the Future of War?
Alex de Waal of the World Peace Foundation, GRC's Managing Partner Wayne Jordash and GRC's Senior Legal Consultant Catriona Murdoch were recently interviewed for the New Yorker article 'Is International Starvation the Future of War?'. The full article can be...
Rohingya: Why the ICC was right and what it must do
Rohingya: Why the ICC was right and what it must do
GRC's Managing Partner Wayne Jordash wrote for the JusticeInfo.net about the Rohingya's repatriation, their need for justice for the atrocities committed by Myanmar and the role of the International Criminal Court. 'Wayne Jordash is one of the most experienced...
Ending Mass Atrocity and Ending Famine
Ending Mass Atrocity and Ending Famine
On Sept 29, 2015, world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly adopted Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2—“end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture ending world hunger by 2030”. Meeting this goal is...
Is the Era of Great Famines Over?
Is the Era of Great Famines Over?
The worst drought in three decades has left almost 20 million Ethiopians — one-fifth of the population — desperately short of food. And yet the country’s mortality rate isn’t expected to increase: In other words, Ethiopians aren’t starving to death.
Assessing the Anti-Atrocity Toolbox
Assessing the Anti-Atrocity Toolbox
The international failure to prevent and mitigate mass violence against civilians in the post-Cold War era, notably in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda, sparked a series of stock-taking efforts within international organisations, national governments and the broader...