GRC are privileged to have contributed to the DCAF's International Security Sector Advisory Team's (ISSAT) new thematic practice on states of emergency in practice, providing security sector reform (SSR) relevant solutions. (see here) Emergency measures have...
The Venezuelan crisis is a man-made crisis, the origins of which go beyond the collapse of the economy in 2013, the drop in oil prices in 2014 and the political tailspin which followed thereafter. The economic collapse has gravely affected an already poor...
Global Rights Compliance echoes the warning to balance COVID-19 responses ensuring that critical support is still given to organisations like World Food Programme. Last week’s headlines highlighted that many people fear they will die from starvation before...
Following the dramatic spread of COVID-19, governments have responded in a variety of ways and introduced a range of emergency and extraordinary measures, including States of Emergency, emergency disaster acts, orders or decrees, or notifications under the European...
Part 2 of GRC's blog series on application of international human rights and humanitarian law during COVID-19 in fragile and conflict affected states has been published on Just Security. In this part, Catriona Murdoch and Rebecca Blumenthal consider the effects on...
As if the plight of the persecuted Rohingya could get any worse, in the largest refugee settlement globally, they are now being penned in with barbed-wire fencing with the internet and telecommunications cut off and authorities confiscating SIM cards. At a time...
As the world is grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, the plight of those most vulnerable in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) has largely gone unnoticed. For FCAS, who are also enduring conflict induced food-insecurity, particularly those dependent on...
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...