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...
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...
Important to highlight that "instances of children dying from malnutrition, dehydration and other preventable deaths linked to the denial of humanitarian assistance have been documented” during the Syrian sieges, in the latest harrowing Independent International...
Damaan Humanitarian Organization, which collaborated with Global Rights Compliance and The World Peace Foundation on the Syrian Policy brief on Mass Starvation (available here) has published an elegant piece picked up by The Guardian on starvation crimes in Syria....
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...