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Legal personality for the OSCE?
Some observations at the occasion of the recent conference on the legal status of the OSCE
…Ukraine, where it helped to facilitate and monitor a ceasefire, to possibly be held responsible under international law. It seems that the OSCE would not do much more with legal…
Symposium: Prior consultation in Latin America – The Case of Bolivia
…of human rights, namely the inclusive character of prior consultation mechanisms. Decisive Standards in Consultations: Cultural Rights and Self-Determination International law comprises specific rights that are meant to establish safeguards…
Innovations in Pharmaceutical Industry
How to Work Towards a Global Benefit for Consumers
…in this contribution, international law offers some ways to mediate the two. Most importantly, the lack of regulations to control price gouging and arbitrary extension of patents and ensure transparency…
Who Holds Russia’s Judges and Public Prosecutors to Account?
How the International Community Fails to Effectively Address Judicial Harassment of Human Rights Defenders in the Russian Federation
…that could oversee actions of and impose sanctions on individual judges and public prosecutors who fail to comply with their human rights obligations under international law. Complaints and reporting mechanisms…
Der „Turn to Principles“ im Völkerrecht: Theoretische und methodische Perspektiven auf die Zukunft von Völkerrecht und Völkerrechtswissenschaft
…Recht vertraut, doch the same approach cannot be adopted in international law, which is based upon the common consent of nations. It is not for a national court to “develop”…
Between Aspirations and Realities
The legal framework of the OSCE in the focus
…for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Despite its name, the OSCE is not an international organization in the public international law sense and lacks international legal personality. One of…
A right to tourism – and the duty of hosting the leisure class
Some thoughts on the recent Convention on Tourism Ethics
…of international law, its relegation to the realm of “soft law” has also contributed to this form of lesser consideration. But this might change, as tourism is now the sole…
Returns Without Examinations
Greece’s Recent Judgment on Syrians’ Asylum Claims
…standard to the Refugee Convention is also not met as the Turkish system for examining asylum applications does not contain the minimum safeguards required by international law for fair and…
Status: “It’s complicated”
On African leaders’ troubled relationship with international courts
…make anybody look bad in public. Thus, if international courts dare to touch upon issues that actually matter to African elites, they will either be killed off or neutered, or,…
Wie lässt sich die Einhaltung des humanitären Völkerrechts durch bewaffnete Gruppen verbessern?
…the effectiveness of mechanisms of compliance with international humanitarian law, and encourages all members of the International Conference, including National Societies, to participate in this work while recognizing the primary…