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The Sunday Post – ‘Those are the cases that keep you awake at night’: Human rights lawyer on how starvation is being used as a weapon of war
This article was originally published by the Sunday Post on 15 January 2023 and was authored by Stephen Stewart. The Sunday Post article can be accessed here. Wars have, for centuries, been waged with bombs, bullets and bloodshed but, as Catriona Murdoch...
What You Should Know About Recognizing and Addressing Starvation Crimes: Advancements, Strategies, and Tools
On 19 January 2023 please join us for a webinar exploring recent developments in recognising and addressing mass starvation. Expert panellists will look at issues related to law, humanitarian responses, protection, sexual and gender-based violence, and...
International community urged to help millions dying, displaced and suffering in one of world’s most unknown state-led mass crimes
First of its kind investigation reveals use of starvation as a deliberate ‘method of warfare’ by South Sudan Government fuelling Africa’s largest refugee crisis To read the full report, click here. Findings: First of its kind investigation by...
An OSINT Investigation of Starvation Crimes in Tigray
GRC is proud to present our latest investigative report on starvation crimes in Tigray, Ethiopia. In November 2020 armed conflict erupted in Tigray, a region in north-west Ethiopia, between the federal military (the Ethiopian National Defense Force) and the...
Outcome Document: 2022 Protection of Civilians Week: Side Event on Conflict and Hunger
On 23 May 2022, the governments of Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United States, together with Global Rights Compliance (GRC), WFP, FAO, the Global Network Against Food Crises, Action Against Hunger, CARE, World Vision, Concern Worldwide, and Save...
World hunger is not an inevitability. It’s politics
This article was originally published by the Irish Times on 13 August 2022 and was authored by Sally Hayden. The Irish Times article can be accessed here. It is important not to forget that behind every person starving there are also a series of political...
Accountability for Mass Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law
GRC is proud to present the first textbook dedicated to the law of starvation, as edited by Bridget Conley, Alex De Waal, Catriona Murdoch, and Wayne Jordash, with an array of brilliant authors ranging from Jane Ferguson, Simone Hutter, to Oliver Windridge,...
NOTHING KILLS LIKE HUNGER – CONCERN WORLDWIDE’S LATEST CAMPAIGN
Global Rights Compliance is proud to highlight the work of Concern Worldwide (Concern), an international humanitarian organisation based in Ireland that strives for a world free from poverty and hunger. For over 50 years, Concern has been delivering life-saving and...
“All Our Hope Is in the Famine”: Why an Investigation into Starvation Crimes in Ukraine Is Urgently Needed
This article was originally published by Opinio Juris on 9 August 2022. The Opinio Juris article can be accessed here. [Anna Mykytenko is a Senior Legal Adviser and Ukraine Country Manager and Maksym Vishchyk is a Legal Adviser with Global Rights Compliance...