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Global Rights Compliance Launches its Starvation Training Manual in Arabic
After months of hard work and diligent translation by the committed team composed of Khalil Aburezeq and Lawyer Laila Alodaat, GRC is pleased to announce the launch of the unique ‘Starvation Training Manual – An International Framework Guide to the Law of...
Farewell to the outgoing UN Special Rapporteur on Food – Hilal Elver
GRC has been privileged to have had the opportunity to work with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Hilal Elver, and her team over the last 2 years. During her 6-year mandate as Special Rapporteur, Hilal has witnessed a stark increase in hunger and...
UNSC expected to adopt Presidential Statement on ‘Protection of Civilians from Conflict-induced hunger’ today
Following a number of virtual negotiations and an open VCT meeting on 21 April 2020 on the Protection of Civilians from Conflict-induced hunger, a Presidential Statement is expected to be adopted by the Security Council on 29 April 2020. The Statement...
GRC’s Catriona Murdoch interviewed for the Asymmetrical Haircuts Podcast on the ICC Starvation Amendment
Is starving people to win a war a crime? Most international humanitarian law scholars say yes. And the International Criminal Court added starvation as a war crime to their statute in December 2019. But how do you prosecute it? Starvation and famines rarely...
COVID-19 forces Venezuelan refugees and migrants to return to Venezuela owing to lockdowns in neighbouring countries
The Venezuelan crisis is a man-made crisis, the origins of which go beyond the collapse of the economy in 2013, the drop in oil prices in 2014 and the political tailspin which followed thereafter. The economic collapse has gravely affected an already poor...
GRC echoes the warning to balance COVID-19 responses with critical food security needs
Global Rights Compliance echoes the warning to balance COVID-19 responses ensuring that critical support is still given to organisations like World Food Programme. Last week’s headlines highlighted that many people fear they will die from starvation before...
COVID-19 Emergency Measures: GRC suggests a “6 Cs Check list” to ensure their optimal functioning
Following the dramatic spread of COVID-19, governments have responded in a variety of ways and introduced a range of emergency and extraordinary measures, including States of Emergency, emergency disaster acts, orders or decrees, or notifications under the European...
GRC’s Blog Series on COVID-19 and Humanitarian Access for Refugees and IDPs. Part 2 on Syria and Bangladesh published
Part 2 of GRC's blog series on application of international human rights and humanitarian law during COVID-19 in fragile and conflict affected states has been published on Just Security. In this part, Catriona Murdoch and Rebecca Blumenthal consider the effects on...
CSOs urge the Bangladesh PM to uphold Rights of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar District Camps amid COVID-19 spread
As if the plight of the persecuted Rohingya could get any worse, in the largest refugee settlement globally, they are now being penned in with barbed-wire fencing with the internet and telecommunications cut off and authorities confiscating SIM cards. At a time...