In light of the ceasefire deal in Gaza, GRC’s Vice-President and Head of the Starvation and Humanitarian Crisis Division, Catriona Murdoch spoke to The Herald underlining the importance of upholding the ceasefire and ensuring that starvation is not used as a weapon...
Global Rights Compliance (GRC) welcomes the ground-breaking decision by Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue warrants of arrest for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Minister of Defence, Yoav Gallant, for the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In October 2021, on the historic grounds of the Peace Palace in the Hague, Global Rights Compliance (GRC) in collaboration with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, hosted a...
Felicity Mulford and Catriona Murdoch Since the beginning of Abiy Ahmeds’ ‘law enforcement operation’ in Tigray last November, the international community warned of the risk of famine. One year on, the predictions are a startling reality. Tigray is experiencing a...
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...