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The Rise of Siege and Starvation as Weapons of War
Monday’s Arria formula meeting at the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the protection of humanitarian and medical personnel hosted by the French and the German Government should be commended. The meeting on 1 April 2019 focused on three key areas related to...
New research brief on the need for amendments to the Rome Statute
Global Rights Compliance (GRC) welcomes the research brief published by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, discussing the need to harmonize the list of war crimes that can be committed in international armed conflicts (IAC) with...
International Women’s Day
Today marks 108 years since the inaugural International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is ‘balance for better’ underscoring the need for gender parity. Women’s roles in resolving conflict and peacebuilding are becoming more widely acknowledged and encouraged (see...
Al Jazeera, live stream this evening.
Al Jazeera invited GRC’s senior legal consultant Catriona Murdoch to record a video comment on the use of mass starvation in Yemen. Yemen promises to be most severe famine in living memory. It is at its core man-made. Documentation indicates thousands of repeated...
What do we see of Famine?
Global Right’s Compliance’s partner organisation, The World Peace Foundation, has commissioned four political cartoons that offer new ways of imagining famine and starvation. The Accountability for Mass Starvation Project, run by Global Rights Compliance and The...
New briefing paper “Movement towards accountability for starvation”
In the new briefing paper "Movement towards accountability for starvation" the World Peace Foundation and Global Rights Compliance review two key advances that occurred in 2018 in relation to accountability for mass starvation, and indicate areas where more work is...
UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen video on possible War Crimes
An important video produced by the UN OHCHR Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (‘GEE’) on the “clear proof” that all parties to the conflict in Yemen have committed acts which may amount to war crimes under international law. As Charles Garraway, GEE Commissioner...
High-Level Side Event to the United Nations Human Rights Council 39th Session “Mass Starvation: Analysis and Accountability for the International Crime Of Starvation”
An expert panel is to discuss the important distinction between famines and the international criminal law (ICL) crime of using starvation as a method of warfare, as well as the nexus between conflict-induced hunger and the same crime. Panellists will also discuss...
“The Return Of Famine” conference, sponsored by the World Peace Foundation, the Feinstein International Center, and Tufts University
Between 2000 and 2011 there were no famines, and deaths in humanitarian emergencies had been much reduced. Yet today famine has returned to the world stage. In 2017, the United Nations identified four situations of acute food insecurity that threatened famine or...