Outcome Document: 2022 Protection of Civilians Week: Side Event on Conflict and Hunger
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GRC Advisory Note International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law Perspectives on COVID-19
GRC Advisory Note International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law Perspectives on COVID-19
This brief note is designed to highlight the importance of IHRL and IHL during the pandemic and how it can be used as an integral guide to governments, multilateral organisations and corporations (‘the Recipients’) in their immediate COVID-19 responses. This note...
Ending Starvation Crimes
Ending Starvation Crimes
As 2019 begins and the number of victims of starvation spirals into the millions, we must urgently address how we can strengthen our collective response to deter such conduct. Global Rights Compliance Wayne Jordash QC and Catriona Murdoch talk with the Diplomat...
Ending Mass Atrocity and Ending Famine
Ending Mass Atrocity and Ending Famine
On Sept 29, 2015, world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly adopted Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2—“end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture ending world hunger by 2030”. Meeting this goal is...
The Nazis Used It; We Use It: The return of starvation as a weapon of war
The Nazis Used It; We Use It: The return of starvation as a weapon of war
In its primary use, the verb ‘to starve’ is transitive: it’s something people do to one another, like torture or murder. Mass starvation as a consequence of the weather has very nearly disappeared: today’s famines are all caused by political decisions, yet...
Arcs of Global Justice
Arcs of Global Justice
The essays are written by luminary scholars and jurists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA, and are coedited by Margaret M. de Guzman and Diane Marie Amann. They examine contemporary, historical, cultural, and theoretical aspects of the many arcs of global...
Pluralism in International Criminal Law
Pluralism in International Criminal Law
Edited by Elies van Sliedregt and Sergey Vasiliev Innovative study of the impact of divergent judgments in international criminal law, assessing whether they undermine the legitimacy, coherence, and efficiency of international criminal justice Identifies areas of...
Judicial Creativity at the International Criminal Tribunals
Judicial Creativity at the International Criminal Tribunals
This chapter highlights the evolution of the ad hoc Tribunals' approach to the specificity of indictments. This is an issue at the very heart of the fairness of international criminal justice and reveals important aspects of the ad hoc Tribunals' commitment to...
What Counts at the End? Questioning Consensus in the Construction of Mass Atrocity Narratives
What Counts at the End? Questioning Consensus in the Construction of Mass Atrocity Narratives
Civilian fatality figures are a limited, if important, data point that influences the ability of researchers to study patterns of violence and evaluate policy responses intended to end violence. However, across datasets that track such violence there are...
Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention
Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention
In the two and a half decades since the end of the Cold War, policy makers have become acutely aware of the extent to which the world today faces mass atrocities. In an effort to prevent the death, destruction, and global chaos wrought by these crimes, the agendas...