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The judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in A.R. v. Poland has recently complemented the growing international jurisprudence on women’s reproductive rights, specifically on the access to...

The Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal and the Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation Proposal, both presented on 19 November by the European Commission, are certain to attract substantial attention from commentators...

„It’s coming home“ The controversy surrounding the sport dimension of the Israel-Palestine question also reached Germany this winter. On 11 December 2025, a UEFA Europa League match involving Israeli football...

The global climate crisis exacerbates structural inequalities. Women, who defend human and environmental rights, face specific forms of violence that, in many cases, are neither recognized nor adequately addressed by...

On 9 July 2025, the United States (US) Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, acting under Executive Order No. 14203, announced the imposition of unilateral sanctions against Francesca Paola Albanese, appointed...

Despite the global trade hysteria prompted by the U.S' unilateral act of Liberation Day Tariff, the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) as the sole institution serving the role of global trade...

They say you die twice – once when you stop breathing and again when your name is spoken for the last time. By all accounts, the prohibition on the use...

Armed conflict is a grim feature of our time: some 130 wars are currently raging worldwide, each exacting a catastrophic human toll and offering all too many real-world case studies...

From 10 to 19 November 2025, the UN Special Rapporteur (SR) on the Right to Development (RtD), Surya Deva, undertook his first official visit to Germany. The visit marks a...

The 2025 Emissions Gap Report and the outcome of the first global stocktake clearly reveal that we are not on track to meet the 1.5 °C target under the Paris Agreement...

Völkerrechtsblog welcomes blog post proposals for its upcoming symposium ‘Women in International Law Vol. 5’. The ‘Women in International Law’ symposium is an online symposium held annually in March and...

The following text is published in the category of “Open Letters and Statements“. [German version below] 8 January 2026 The Executive Board and the Council of the German Society of...

In the early hours of 3 January 2026, the United States conducted an operation involving strikes against Venezuelan targets. In an apparent escalation, President Nicolás Maduro was captured and removed...

We are taking our annual end-of-the-year break to regroup and recharge for new exciting projects to come! It will be an exciting new year with a sigificantly expanded caring and...

Bottom trawling, a fishing method that tows heavy, weighted nets and trawl doors along the seabed to catch demersal species, does more than destroy and flatten benthic habitats: by repeatedly...

After the peace negotiations in Alaska, a position has been taken in the debate among international lawyers and politicians which —unintentionally— plays into Russia’s strategy of endurance. The debate revolves...

After acceding to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 2023, Germany is now, for the first time, facing an individual complaint...

The modern state has a monopoly on the use of force. Nevertheless, private actors have been increasingly deployed in armed conflicts since the 1990s. How can this be? And what...

‘The Russian climate case’ (application no. 9296/24) was filed on 31 August 2023 at the European Court of Human Rights [‘ECtHR’ or ‘Court’] and brought before the Court by a...

„Die Bundesregierung erkennt die De-facto-Regierung der Taliban politisch nicht als legitime Regierung Afghanistans an.“ – so steht es etwas kryptisch ⁠auf der Webseite des Auswärtigen Amtes⁠ zu den bilateralen Beziehungen...

Twenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly (“UNGA”) in the 2005 World Summit Outcome narrowed the scope of the 2001 Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State...

During the first half of 2021, a group of jurists sat together to draft a new legal definition of ecocide. The Independent Expert Panel (Expert Panel), convened by the Stop...

A decade ago, in 2015, ITLOS delivered its first-ever advisory opinion as a full tribunal in the Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC). By...

In 2016, India promised to liberate 18.4 million bonded labourers by 2030. Nine years on, less than 1% have been freed and the system remains intact, particularly for Dalits and...