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Digital Famine: Discussing Risks and Prevention
GRC Partner, Catriona Murdoch has co-authored together with Susanne Jaspars and Nisar Majid, an expert report entitled 'Digital Feast and Famine: Digital technologies and humanitarian law in food security, starvation and famine risk', exploring the role of digital...
War crime of starvation in both conflict designations featured in Italian Draft Code of International Crimes
On 31 May 2022, the Italian International Crimes Commission submitted a draft Code of International Crimes and an accompanying Commentary to the Italian Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia. Established by the Italian Ministry of Justice in March of this year, the...
Vigilance in Identifying Acts of Starvation amid Fear of Cholera Outbreak in Mariupol
Recent reports warn of the high risk of a major cholera outbreak in Mariupol (BBC, Reuters, VoA). This extremely virulent water-borne disease affects both children and adults alike. Although only isolated cases of cholera have been reported in the past month, the...
Digital Feast and Famine: Digital technologies and humanitarian law in food security, starvation and famine risk
Digital feast and famine: Digital technologies and humanitarian law in food security, starvation and famine risk, aims to explore the role of digital technologies in the violation and application of humanitarian law, and its consequences for famine risk and...
Protection of Civilians: Four Years on from the Adoption of UNSC Resolution 2417
It has been 4 years since the unanimous adoption of the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 2417 (2018) (‘UNSC 2417’), in which the UNSC recognised for the first time the intrinsic link between hunger and conflict and condemned the use of starvation as a method...
UN Protection of Civilians Week 2022: Side Event on Conflict and Hunger, Co-Sponsored by GRC
Global Rights Compliance was proud to co-sponsor with the Governments of Canada, Ireland, Netherlands and the United States, together with WFP, FAO, the Global Network Against Food Crises, Action Against Hunger, CARE, World Vision, Concern Worldwide, Save the...
US Congress hearing on ‘Armed Conflict, Starvation, and International Humanitarian Law’: GRC’s Catriona Murdoch provided expert testimony
GRC Partner Catriona Murdoch was invited as an expert witness to testify before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the US Congress during a hearing titled ‘Armed Conflict, Starvation and International Humanitarian Law’, held virtually on 12 April 2022. The...
UNSC Arria-Formula Meeting on Conflict and Hunger: SR on Food echoes GRC’s calls for Special Envoy on Resolution 2417
On 21 April 2022, Ireland convened an Arria-Formula meeting at the UN Security Council (‘UNSC’) on Conflict and Hunger to consider the possible actions needed to break the vicious cycle of conflict-induced food insecurity as well as the better operationalisation of...
Russia could be guilty of starvation crimes in Ukraine. We must act.
This article was originally published by The Guardian on 29 March 2022. The Guardian article can be accessed here. The deputy mayor of Mariupol, Sergiy Orlov, describes people sheltering in basements trying to survive without food, medicine or a power supply, and...