GRC's Guidebook on Ratifying and Implementing the Rome Statute Starvation Amendment is now available in French and Spanish. The Guidebook contains key information and resources about the Starvation Amendment, the importance of its ratification and domestic...
This article was originally published by Fair Planet on 5 March 2023 and was authored by Robert Bociaga. The Fair Planet article can be accessed here. Experts are pushing for the recognition of deliberate starvation in a conflict as a distinct crime, believing it...
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...
During this year’s UN Security Council Protection of Civilians Open Debate, Switzerland, issued a Statement on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (GoF PoC), which also includes the Netherlands, Belgium, and...
GRC congratulates the Netherlands on their recent acceptance of the Rome Statute amendment extending the application of starvation as a war crime to non-international armed conflicts (NIAC), in line with customary international law and international consensus. The...
GRC congratulates New Zealand on becoming the first State to ratify the Rome Statute amendment extending the application of starvation as a war crime to non-international armed conflicts (NIAC), in line with customary international law and international consensus....
Is starving people to win a war a crime? Most international humanitarian law scholars say yes. And the International Criminal Court added starvation as a war crime to their statute in December 2019. But how do you prosecute it? Starvation and famines rarely...
GRC’s Catriona Murdoch interviewed by leading Swiss newspaper on the historic Rome Statute amendment which passed unanimously yesterday, making starvation a war crime in a NIAC. Read the full interview here Global Rights Compliance (GRC) have been engaged on...
On December 6 The Assembly of State Parties to the International Criminal Court unanimously amended the Rome Statute to include the war-crime of starvation in a non-international armed conflict. Today during the 18th Session of the Assembly of State Parties...
This Saturday the 7th of December at the 18th Session of the Assembly of State Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute, there will be a historic vote on the amendment of the Rome Statute tabled by Switzerland, to include the crime of starvation as a war crime in...
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...