Forcing Women to Deprioritize Their Health?
30.03.2023
Six of the sixteen countries in the world, which prohibit abortions under all circumstances, are located in Middle America. Yet it remains unclear whether absolute bans on abortions are compatible...
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When A Princess Causes a Nightmare
27.03.2023
On February 28, 2023, the tanker Princess Empress sank off the coast of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines as a result of engine damage. Since then, the loaded 800,000 liters of industrial...
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New Ways to Deal With Old Crimes?
15.03.2023
Do countries take responsibility for grave violations of current international law committed in the past? This question has once again been raised in the negotiations between Germany and Namibia over...
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Military Success > Global Food Security
20.02.2023
"The right to food is not the right to be nourished, but first and foremost the right to nourish oneself in dignity from one's own resources", Jean Ziegler However, the...
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When Silence Is Not Golden but Puzzling
11.01.2023
Tillmann Lindner
Giacomo Romis
On 22 July 2022 the ICJ issued its judgment regarding the preliminary objections raised by Myanmar in the case of the Application of the Genocide Convention on the Prevention and...
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Human Dignity Is Inviolable… Unless You Are a Prisoner?
22.12.2022
A vote on abolishing slavery in 2022 - really? Yes, that is exactly what happened in several states in the United States this November. On 8 November 2022 the citizens...
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Towards a Sustainable Agriculture
14.11.2022
Not least since Russia blocked Ukrainian grain exports and thereby endangered global food security has agriculture moved into the international spotlight. Between global environmental issues like climate change and food...
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Pitting Wildlife Conservation Against Indigenous Rights
09.11.2022
On 30 September, the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) issued a judgment that has been met with indignation by indigenous activists. It ruled that the Tanzanian government’s decision to permanently clear an area...
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Between Accuracy and Dignity
30.09.2022
Jan-Phillip Graf
Jannik Neumann
According to several news organizations, the Ukrainian forces use the facial recognition software Clearview AI to identify deceased Russian combatants in order to inform families about their kin’s death (here,...
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What Needs to Be Said
16.09.2022
Maximilian Bertamini
Tillmann Lindner
It seems these days that international law and its institutions are unable to keep power at bay. In recent times, the UN Security Council (SC) – one member in particular...
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Of Old Wisdoms and New Challenges
18.08.2022
At the end of July 2022, Volume I (Rules) of the long awaited McGill Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS) was finally released. Drafted...
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Imploding Protection Through Exploding Norms?
12.08.2022
On August 4th 2022, Amnesty International published a report criticising the tactics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) for endangering civilians by launching attacks and placing military targets in populated...
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No Purchase, No Requisition, No Seizure
27.07.2022
Grain plays a crucial role in the war in Ukraine. Not only is Russia blocking Ukrainian grain exports and thereby causing a risk of a world-wide food crisis. In addition,...
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Wofür kämpfen?
25.07.2022
Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine ist zu einem Zermürbungskrieg im Osten des Landes geworden. Seine Fortdauer kostet jeden Tag unzählige Menschenleben. Dennoch zeigt sich gerade in Hinblick auf die...
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(Don’t) Call ‘Em Mercenaries
20.07.2022
Lorenz Rubner
Lisa M. Cohen
Much like the invasion of Iraq did two decades ago, the attack on Ukraine has yanked legal terminology and arguments from international law to the public forum, prompting legal academics...
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The Responsibility to Protect as a Responsibility to Deny
30.06.2022
Sophie Maria Martha Wollert
We live in a horrific reality in which governments are committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide against their people (the following are referred to as...
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Out of Sight, out of Mind?
27.06.2022
On June 14th 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued an interim measure against the United Kingdom, effectively halting a deportation flight at the 11th hour that would...
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The Dangers of Hacktivism
15.06.2022
The Russian Federation (Russia) has turned almost the whole Western world against it by attacking and invading Ukraine. While States are intensively debating about the strictest yet legally sound ways...
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Turning the Tide
07.06.2022
By 2100 sea level will rise between 0.43 m and 0.84 m due to climate change. Doesn't sound like much to you? Then imagine living on an island with an...
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What Do We Do with the Non-‘White, Blonde, Blue-Eyed’ Asylum Seekers?
02.06.2022
Following the Russian invasion, it is estimated that over 6 million persons have fled Ukraine. Although this number is significantly higher than any other refugee wave reaching the EU since...
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COVID-19 Triage and the Persistent Problem of Disability Discrimination in Healthcare
20.04.2022
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create major challenges for public healthcare. Numerous countries are faced with the difficult task of allocating scarce medical resources, e.g. ventilators, to COVID-19 patients (see, e.g., case studies concerning...
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Nachruf Knut Ipsen
05.04.2022
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Knut Ipsen ist am 17. März 2022 im Alter von 86 Jahren gestorben. Als „wissenschaftlicher und hochschulpolitischer Macher“ hatte er eine beispiellose Karriere, die ganz...
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Of Legal Creativity and Plausibility of Rights
04.04.2022
Sebastian Wuschka
Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan
On 16 March 2022, the International Court of Justice rendered its provisional measures order on the request by Ukraine in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on...
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Humanitarian Visas to Escape from the Taliban?
30.03.2022
The Taliban’s seizure of power has led to the expectation of a sharp increase in the movement of Afghan protection seekers to countries of refuge. Although the international community tried...
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Abortion in Latin America Through the Lens of the IACtHR
08.03.2022
Lea Bilke
Vanessa Bliecke
Ella Schönleben
Discussing reproductive rights – and more specifically abortion rights – in a legal setting is challenging. Legal arguments blend with political, moral and religious discussions, blurring the line between lex...
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How Pressing ‘ENTER’ Gets You to The Hague
02.03.2022
Lisa M. Cohen
Lorenz Rubner
The offensive use of cyber capabilities is well documented. Most recently, the Russian invasion into Ukraine has been preceded and accompanied by multiple cyber operations both from State actors and...
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The Death of the Prohibition on the Use of Force
15.02.2022
Towards the end of 2021, Russia began a massive buildup of troops along its border with Ukraine and forecasts of a possible invasion started to circulate. Expectedly, the community of...
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Clean Up Your Mess!
11.02.2022
Vivien Wefringhaus
Maja Bergfort
Approximately eight million tons of plastic waste leak into the oceans every year. Our planet is literally drowning in plastic. It is estimated that every year one million birds and...
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Ecocide – Legal Revolution or Symbolism?
03.02.2022
Romina Pezzot
Jan-Phillip Graf
One year ago, the Stop Ecocide Foundation convened the so-called ‘Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide’ (IEP). Composed of 12 renowned international jurists and co-chaired by Dior...
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Is the Feministisation of the ECtHR’s Abortion-Related Jurisprudence a Realistic Expectation?
28.01.2022
Feminist legal theories have repeatedly highlighted the patriarchal bias in law and decision-making: Sexuality, biology and reproductivity have been parameters of persons’ positioning in the eyes of the law and...
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One Court at a Time: Challenges of Universal Jurisdiction and Enhancing International Justice
24.01.2022
When the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz convicted former Syrian State intelligence officer Anwar R. of crimes against humanity on January 13, 2022, survivors, activists, and lawyers unanimously praised German...
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Self-Defense or Self-Excuse?
20.12.2021
On 13 November 2021, the New York Times (NYT) published an investigative article revealing how the US military had hidden an airstrike which had killed dozens of civilians in Syria...
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Love Is Taboo
13.12.2021
Vanessa Bliecke
Rouven Diekjobst
Prison inmates are inherently subject to far-reaching interferences with their civil rights and liberties. Still, states increasingly tend to exceed their legal boundaries by imposing additional restrictions on them. Consequently,...
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Trampling Human Rights – and Getting Paid For It?!
08.12.2021
In early October shocking videos were released by Lighthouse Reports (a collaborative journalism platform) showing Croatian border police brutally beating young migrants with sticks and forcing them back into Bosnia....
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Is Your Dating App Swiping Left on Human Rights?
01.12.2021
Spyridoula Katsoni
Paul Philipp Stewens
TW // sexual violence, rape If you or someone you know experiences/has experienced sexual violence, please reach out for support here (for Germany; for an overview of national helplines see...
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Re-rethinking the Amicable Settlement of Inter-State ECHR Disputes
30.09.2021
The amicable settlement of inter-State disputes under the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) was thoroughly discussed on Völkerrechtsblog earlier this year, during the ‘Inter-State Cases under the ECHR’ symposium....
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Refoulement Beyond Pushbacks
20.09.2021
Since the Taliban took control of Kabul, the news has abounded in heart-breaking images of people trying to flee Afghanistan. Following some sympathetic responses, however, the discourse has shifted to...
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Is ‘Cyberwar’ Fought with Weapons?
09.09.2021
How do – and should – we classify offensive cyber capabilities? Particularly in the context of international humanitarian law, the question whether offensive cyber capabilities are weapons, means of warfare,...
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Purge – Until There Is No One Left
30.07.2021
In February 2021, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed a complaint in Germany for crimes committed in Chechnya, allegedly by five perpetrators including the Chechen Deputy...
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International Law and Sand
21.07.2021
Vivien Wefringhaus
Maximilian Bertamini
Sand?! Yes, sand. Sand – or rather a lack thereof – is quickly becoming an increasingly pressing global issue. As the scarcity of this inconspicuous, yet crucial all-rounder of a...
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“Genetic Cleansing” Under the Guise of Women’s Rights?
16.07.2021
Nadine Grünhagen
Vanessa Bliecke
The fight for the protection and recognition of disabled persons’ rights frequently ends before it even starts. While about 25% of fetuses are generally aborted, this percentage rises to about 90% when the fetus is diagnosed...
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A House Divided
14.07.2021
In November 2020, tensions between Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments erupted into violent conflict, which is currently ongoing. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
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Feasting on the Back of the Harvester
12.07.2021
Germany’s 2021 asparagus season has just come to a close. Traditionally, 24 June, the so-called “Spargelsilvester”, marks the end of the jolly “Spargelzeit”. In 2019, Germans ate 1.7 kg of...
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The Kids Aren’t Alright
30.06.2021
People who walked along the East River in mid-March towards the UN’s headquarters in New York found a peculiar picture: 168 empty school tables with blue UNICEF school bags on...
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Burmese Amber
24.06.2021
“Jurassic Park” popularized the potential of amber for the research of extinct life forms: specimens of plants and animals can survive millions of years in a three-dimensional shape, with the texture of...
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COVID-19 Vaccines and Work-Related Rights
22.06.2021
As States’ capacities to provide COVID-19 vaccines rise, questions on whether employers can lawfully require their employees to get vaccinated arise accordingly. As the lawfulness of States imposing compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations has been already...
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A Problem Bigger than Qatar
11.06.2021
With the European soccer Championship beginning this Friday, discussions regarding the human rights situations of host states rose once again, specifically concerning Azerbaijan’s oppression of the press and alleged war...
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Beyond Japan’s Decision
08.06.2021
Sonja Susann Schäfer
Stephan Schultz
On March 11, 2011, the strongest earthquake recorded in Japan and an ensuing tsunami killed nearly 19.500 people and destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station releasing radioactive materials over...
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The Future of “Climate Refugees” in International Law
05.06.2021
Spyridoula Katsoni
Jan-Phillip Graf
The issue of “climate refugees” has attracted scholarly attention for over a decade. The historic ruling of the Human Rights Committee (‘HRCtee’) in Ioane Teitiota v. New Zealand further increased...
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EU-Grundrechtecharta 2.0
21.05.2021
„Ich schreibe gerne und alles andere überlasse ich gerne anderen“, erklärte der Jurist und Schriftsteller Ferdinand von Schirach im Juni 2020, nachdem er die Idee eines Updates der Charta der...
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Now or Never
14.05.2021
“America is Back”! This is the central slogan of President Joseph Biden’s foreign policy and after the Trump presidency’s strains on the U.S. ties to its allies and on the...
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100 Days of Biden
27.04.2021
When Joseph R. Biden won the US Presidential election on 3 November 2020, the dawn of a new era seemed at our doorstep. 100 days after his inauguration, this post...
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What Does the Vavřička Judgement Tell Us About the Compatibility of Compulsory COVID-19 Vaccinations with the ECHR?
21.04.2021
On the 8th of April, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) issued its widely-anticipated judgement on Vavřička and others v. the Czech Republic shedding some...
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The Right to Live under Threat
08.04.2021
Fiza Lee-Winter
Tonny Kirabira
Laura Collins
Just hours before Myanmar’s newly elected government sat in for their first parliamentary session on 1st February, 2021, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other National League for Democracy (NLD)...
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#ManuelaJusticiayEsperanza?
19.03.2021
Vanessa Bliecke
Ella Schönleben
Jeremy De la Cruz Morales
On 10 and 11 March 2021, the public hearings on the historic case of Manuela and others v. El Salvador took place before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)....
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The Right to Abortion and the European Convention on Human Rights
19.03.2021
Abortion bans are back in Vogue! Nearly 165 years after the first massive demonstration on women’s rights, discussions on the extent to which interference with female bodies falls within States’...
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Populism’s lethal effect on the respect for human rights
11.03.2021
The rise of populism in Europe is a fact. Along with it, discussions of the effects of populism on the rule of law have arisen. The purpose of the present...
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Alles richtig gemacht?
10.03.2021
Nun ist es endgültig: Der EGMR hat am 16. Februar 2021 entschieden, dass Deutschland seiner Aufklärungspflicht gemäß der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK) im Zusammenhang mit dem Angriff im Kundus in ausreichendem Maße...
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Expansion in the Aegean Sea?
19.02.2021
For many years Turkey and Greece – the only coastal states on the Aegean Sea – have argued about the breadth of their maritime zones. The unique situation in the...
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Can Bangladesh preserve the Brahmaputra?
10.02.2021
Disputes between riparian states over their shared freshwater resources are as old as time and China and India have long been engaged in a race to exploit the Brahmaputra. The...
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Viel Lärm um nichts
09.02.2021
Am 28. Januar hat der Bundesgerichtshof keine Rechtsgeschichte geschrieben und das ist gut so. Denn alles andere als die ergangene Entscheidung wäre ein katastrophaler Rückschlag für die weltweite Verfolgung von...
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International crimes in the age of social media
03.02.2021
Social media platforms such as Facebook are important for the dissemination of information. The platform can be a powerful tool for Sharing text messages, pictures, and videos via, and it...
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Trump’s deadly legacy?
11.01.2021
As lethal injection drugs are more and more difficult to obtain in the United States, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released an amendment to the federal execution protocols on November...
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Of crabbed age and bold youth
24.12.2020
Nadine Grünhagen
Rouven Diekjobst
On November 30th, news broke that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had decided to fast-track a lawsuit submitted by six Portuguese children and adolescents (“the application”), supported by...
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Diplomats vs. Robots
14.12.2020
"We reject autonomous weapon systems that are beyond the control of humans. We want to condemn them worldwide." This concise statement is part of the coalition agreement (para. 7027) of...
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A pushback against international law?
08.12.2020
Jan-Phillip Graf
Kai Budelmann
In late October, an international group of investigative journalists released a detailed report about the involvement of Frontex, the European border security agency, in so-called pushbacks in the Mediterranean. Though...
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Do compulsory vaccinations against COVID-19 violate human rights?
02.12.2020
As soon as the announcement of a vaccine against the coronavirus hit the news, discussions on the permissibility of compulsory vaccination multiplied. As anti-vaccination campaigns flourish and fake news spread...
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The new era of disinformation wars
30.11.2020
While the manipulation of photographs has traditionally been deemed a State intelligence privilege, today’s technological evolution allows anyone to effortlessly modify digital material – deepfakes being the newest, and arguably...
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Extensive violence instead of intensive protection
11.11.2020
Vanessa Bliecke
Nadine Grünhagen
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” (Article 1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Even though the concept of universal human rights is more than...
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Collective self-defence or just another intervention?
02.11.2020
Following the recent escalation between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, multiplying voices note that Turkey, Azerbaijan’s closest ally, has been sending not only its military but also...
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The U.S. v. the rest of the world
14.10.2020
On October 18, an arms embargo on Iran imposed by the UN Security Council a decade ago will expire. As of that day, Iran will be allowed to deal with...
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A state obligation to allot land to minorities?
06.10.2020
Land rights are an important, but underexplored aspect of international law. Although a general right to land has been discussed for several years and appears to slowly take shape (see...
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Auch ein Versagen der Staatengemeinschaft
30.09.2020
Der Konflikt zwischen Armenien und Aserbaidschan um die Region Bergkarabach ist zum ersten Mal seit den frühen 1990er Jahren wieder auf breiter Front eskaliert, beide Staaten befinden sich im „Kriegszustand“...
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Return of the Rohingyas
29.09.2020
The rape and murder of 27-year-old Arakan Buddhist woman Thida Htwe in late May 2012, allegedly by three Muslim men, triggered multiple rounds of sectarian violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state....
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Climate change and human rights: a next big step for the Human Rights Committee?
22.09.2020
In May 2019, eight Torres Strait Islanders filed a communication alleging that the inaction of the Australian government over climate change is resulting in violations of their rights under the...
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Anklägerin auf der Sanktionsliste
17.09.2020
Die Einleitung von Ermittlungen in Afghanistan durch die Chefanklägerin des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs (IStGH), Fatou Bensouda, hat bereits mehrfach scharfe Reaktionen der USA hervorgerufen (dazu kritisch hier). Unter anderem drohte der...
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
10.09.2020
Although the higher risk of COVID-19’s contagion among those residing in overly-populated asylum-seeker centres has been underlined by cassandric voices since the early days of its outbreak, Moria Reception and...
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COVID-19 at the International Criminal Court
14.08.2020
On 27 July 2020, an umbrella group of Brazilian unions and social organizations filed a criminal complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the complaint, the group that represents...
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Flashbangs against empowerment
14.08.2020
The last weeks were turbulent in Belarus. For the first time in his 26 year-reign, president Alexander Lukashenko faces a meaningful challenge to his power in the form of a...
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Germany’s commitment to international justice
23.06.2020
Part I Six years after the so-called “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) began persecuting and annihilating the Yazidis, an ethno-religious minority group in Northern Iraq, the first trial...
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“No quarter for insurrectionists”
12.06.2020
As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have broken out in the United States following the murder of George Floyd, American politicians’ rhetoric has taken on a militant tone...
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Bewaffnete Drohnen für die Bundeswehr?
11.06.2020
Die Bundeswehr setzt inzwischen regelmäßig Drohnen im Ausland ein. Ihr Arsenal umfasst eine Vielzahl von Modellen (darunter die Aufklärungsdrohne Heron 1 in Mali). Die bislang eingesetzten Drohnen dienen allerdings allein...
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Ohrenbetäubendes Schweigen
11.06.2020
Die aktuelle Covid-19 Pandemie präsentiert sich als globale Krise nationaler Alleingänge. Das liegt auch am Sicherheitsrat (SR) der Vereinten Nationen (VN), der sich seit Wochen nicht auf eine Resolution einigen...
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Follow the money and see where it goes – Unmasking the EU’s Libya programme
25.05.2020
Timeela Manandhar
Rouven Diekjobst
On 20 May 2020, Philipp Dann, Michael Riegner and Lena Zagst presented on this blog the complaint before the European Court of Auditors (CoA), which a group of NGOs led...
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Leaving no one behind?
24.04.2020
In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the rights and special needs of persons with disabilities are once again neglected dramatically. It is bitterly unsurprising that the topic arrived on the agenda...
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Mine, mine, mine!
23.04.2020
In an impressive display of questionable timing and priorities, the US President may just have rung in the first round of a new space age. While “non-viral” news currently fly...
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Wo kein Richter, da kein Wähler?
13.04.2020
Polen und die Rechtstaatlichkeit – das ist seit Längerem eine schwierige Beziehung. Am Abend des 6. April 2020 änderte der Sejm (eine der beiden Kammern des polnischen Parlaments) zum zweiten...
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Staat oder kein Staat unter dem Rom-Statut, das ist hier die einzige Frage!
17.03.2020
In dem kürzlich veröffentlichten Beitrag „Deutschland als amicus curiae“ habe ich Stellung für die Bejahung der Zuständigkeit des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs (IStGH) im Palästina-Verfahren bezogen und dies im Wesentlichen mit dem...
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Deutschland als amicus curiae
24.02.2020
Palästina ist seit 2015 Mitglied des Rom-Statuts (RS) des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs (IStGH). Durch seinen Beitritt spielte Palästina den Ball in der kontrovers diskutierten Frage der eigenen Staatlichkeit dem Gerichtshof zu,...
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Undermining past efforts?
18.02.2020
On 31 January 2020, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham announced that the US government was planning to authorize high-level US military commanders, in exceptional circumstances, to employ “non-persistent” land...
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From persecution to poverty
31.01.2020
A 2019 ‘safe third country’ agreement between Guatemala and the US allows the US to send asylum seekers who arrived at the US-Mexican border to Guatemala. Under the agreement Guatemala...
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A significant opening
30.01.2020
The Human Rights Committee (HRC) has just added to the many important international legal developments of the young decade and issued its first ruling on the case of a “climate...
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All eyes on the Court
23.12.2019
Whilst Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya minority has long been subject to public scrutiny, in November news broke that The Gambia instituted proceedings against Myanmar before the International Court of...
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Trumping Mexico’s Sovereignty?
20.12.2019
Vanessa Bliecke
Rouven Diekjobst
President Trump reportedly planned to label Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, stating that the US considered to “go in and clear out”. The Mexican response was quick to...
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No voice, no rights, no protection?
18.12.2019
On 19th November, the animal protection organisation PETA filed a complaint with the German federal constitutional Court (BVerfG) against a law that legalizes the unanaesthetized castration of pigs for two...
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Does policy “Trump” international law?
11.12.2019
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has announced a reversal of US policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. While the Obama Administration deemed Israel’s settlement activities illegal under...
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India’s mosque that was and temple that will be
27.11.2019
“Mandir mein, masjid mein tu aur tu hi hai imaano mein” [You're there in the temples, in the mosques, and in all belief]. These lyrics, performed in a musical ode...
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In dubio contra bellum
29.10.2019
Maximilian Bertamini
Benedikt Behlert
What does Turkey’s operation “Peace Spring” against Kurdish militias in Northern Syria and the subsequent reactions of the international community mean for the prohibition on the use of force? “The...
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Playing with fire
18.09.2019
Rouven Diekjobst
Lennard Dute
“Our house is burning”, French President Macron found graphic words to address the wildfires in the Amazon rainforest, which have reached threatening levels in the past weeks. 80,000 fires this...
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