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‘Towards international recognition of the genocide of the Rohingya?’ on UK Human Rights Blog
A blog authored by Ruby Axelson and Wayne Jordash QC (with research assistance from Prachiti Venkatraman and Shireen Meghe) of Global Rights Compliance is available on UK Human Rights Blog. The article, which analyses the two cases which have been brought in the...
Accountability for Mass Starvation: Testing The Limits of the Law – The 2019 Round Up
Global Rights Compliance (GRC) have been engaged on the issue of starvation since 2017 in conjunction with The Netherlands’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Welt Hunger Hilfe, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, and a range of civil society...
Interview in Swiss Le Temps
GRC’s Catriona Murdoch interviewed by leading Swiss newspaper on the historic Rome Statute amendment which passed unanimously yesterday, making starvation a war crime in a NIAC. Read the full interview here Global Rights Compliance (GRC) have been engaged on...
VITAL AMENDMENT TO THE ROME STATUTE UNANIMOUSLY PASSES
On December 6 The Assembly of State Parties to the International Criminal Court unanimously amended the Rome Statute to include the war-crime of starvation in a non-international armed conflict. Today during the 18th Session of the Assembly of State Parties...
GRC launches ‘The Starvation Training Manual – An International Framework Guide to the Law of Starvation’
The Starvation Training Manual is a unique toolkit designed for a wide audience including: professional investigators, human rights defenders, journalists, civil society organisations, academics, the military police officers, and humanitarian actors, interested in...
The Vote On Switzerland’s Starvation Amendment To Be Held This Week At The 18th Session Of The Assembly Of State Parties To The Rome Statute
This Saturday the 7th of December at the 18th Session of the Assembly of State Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute, there will be a historic vote on the amendment of the Rome Statute tabled by Switzerland, to include the crime of starvation as a war crime in...
Amnesty International supports the proposed Rome Statute amendment on starvation ahead of the ASP
Amnesty International, in their latest position paper, has urged all the State parties to the Rome Statute to adopt the proposed Swiss amendment to include intentional starvation of civilians as a war crime in non-international armed conflicts (NIACs). The proposed...
Gambia argues use of forced starvation against the Rohingya in its ICJ submissions
On 11 November 2019 the Republic of the Gambia filed its submissions at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Myanmar for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention. Citing reports of the UN Special Rapporteur, Committee on the Elimination of...
Human Rights Council adopts new resolution on starvation in Yemen
During the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council, the UN adopted a new resolution on the human rights situation in Yemen. The text of the resolution, sponsored, among others, by the government of the Netherlands, refers to the use of starvation as a method of...