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Hague Book Launch of Alex De Waal’s ‘Mass Starvation: The History and Future Of Famine’ (2018), followed by a panel discussion
The eminent panelists will discuss world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex De Waal’s 'Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine'. It will consider the history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. Mass...
Famine declared in Yemen: Armed Conflict named as the main cause
The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (‘IPC’) analysis from December 2018 to January 2019 reveals that there are approximately 65,000 people in IPC Phase 5 Catastrophe / Famine. This declaration translates to at least two people out of every...
Martha Mundy’s new report “Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War”
Martha Mundy’s new report, “Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War” offers unique data and graphics documenting: The pattern of aerial bombardment across the duration of the armed conflict, including information about: the proportion of military, civilian and...
The Starvation Accountability Team attend the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly
Bridget Conley and Catriona Murdoch from the Starvation Accountability team attend the high-level UN General Assembly (‘UNGA’) event on conflict and food-insecurity in New York. The event entitled ‘Exploring the Link Between Conflict and Global Hunger’ was...
Starvation Accountability Team interviewed by The New Yorker
Alex de Waal of the World Peace Foundation, Global Rights Compliance’s Managing Partner Wayne Jordash and Senior Legal Consultant Catriona Murdoch were interviewed for the New Yorker article 'Is International Starvation the Future of War?'. Jane Ferguson is a...
Global Rights Compliance draft legal submissions on Starvation to the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen
Global Rights Compliance (‘GRC’) drafted legal submissions to the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen established by the UN High Commissioner though Resolution A/HRC/RES/36/31 on 29 September 2017. The submissions applied the law relevant to starvation to the...
UN Security Council Resolution 2417 unanimously passed: a landmark Resolution acknowledging the deliberate starvation of civilians as a method of warfare
On May 24, 2018, the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”) unanimously passed a historic Resolution 2417 (2018) acknowledging the deliberate starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. The resolution, sponsored by the Netherlands, highlights the link between...
The Starvation Team advise UN Security Council representatives on the link between starvation and international peace and security
Alex de Waal and Bridget Conley of The World Peace Foundation and Catriona Murdoch of Global Rights Compliance meet with high-level delegates and representatives of the UN Security Council to advise on the draft resolution 2417 and the link between starvation and...