Sea-Level Rise at the Security Council
08.05.2023
In what has been termed a ‘signature event’ of the Maltese Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (the Council), the latter held an open debate on the implications of...
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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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Livestream: COVID-19 Vaccinations and Human Rights
28.06.2021
Lisa M. Cohen
Rouven Diekjobst
Marko Milanovic
Iris Goldner Lang
Spyridoula Katsoni
The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated political, academic, and societal debates for the past one and a half years. As soon as they became available in late 2020, COVID-19 vaccines...
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Livestream: The COVID-19 Vaccination Gap, Human Rights, and Patent Waivers
23.06.2021
Lisa M. Cohen
Rouven Diekjobst
Diane A. Desierto
Ruth L. Okediji
Matthew M. Kavanagh
The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated political, academic, and societal debates for the past one and a half years and been a dramatic reminder of the fact that health is a...
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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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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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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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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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The international whaling regime – a law with no teeth?
04.07.2019
Hosting the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan has been at the center of international attention lately. Less prominent than the G20 summit, but not less noteworthy is the reintroduction of...
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New peak in the dispute concerning the Golan Heights
03.04.2019
Judith Prasse
Rouven Diekjobst
On Monday, 25 March 2019, US President Donald Trump accepted Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights by stating that “the United States recognizes that the Golan Heights are part of...
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Trading Blows
05.03.2019
Maximilian Bertamini
Rouven Diekjobst
On Wednesday, February 27th 2019 Pakistan reportedly shot down two Indian warplanes, after India conducted airstrikes on the Pakistani side of the disputed border region of Kashmir against training camps of...
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