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...
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...
The case for investigating starvation-related conduct The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ Fact-Finding Mission to the Tigray Region of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (“Commission of Inquiry”) should investigate whether parties...
Today, GRC partner, the World Peace Foundation, published a report analysing evidence of starvation-related conduct by parties to conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia. The report examines the structure of livelihoods and food security in Tigray prior to the outbreak of the...
Today the UN Security Council (UNSC) are holding an ‘any other business’ meeting, instigated by Ireland, on the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia and, on 11 March 2021, the UNSC is expected to hold a high-level video conference on food security. In response to...
Russia's invasion and occupation of Ukraine is characterised by industrial-scale state-sponsored theft and robbery. This is particularly evident in the agricultural sector. Russian occupiers have seized land, agricultural infrastructure and millions of tons of grain,...
Following the release of the SMJT's new report which reveals the Russian campaign to cripple Ukraine's grain trade and economy, Olha Matskiv, Ukrainian Lawyer part of the SMJT was cited in the Sunday Times. The article "Starvation is Russia's favourite weapon", by...
To read the whole piece on Babel, please follow the link Russian attacks on Ukraineʼs agricultural infrastructure are an economic war, the goal of which the Russians see as the destruction of Ukraineʼs agricultural and export potential through occupation, theft and...