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Revisiting Customary IHL
19.09.2025
Rouven Diekjobst
Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
Paulina Rob
Editors’ note: This post introduces a symposium relating to the ICRC's Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The symposium highlights presentations delivered at the young...
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#47 Hungersnot: Belagerungen und Blockaden im Lichte des humanitären Völkerrechts
06.06.2025
Rouven Diekjobst
Isabel Lischewski
Daniela Rau
Die ohnehin prekäre humanitäre Situation im Gazastreifen hat sich seit Anfang März 2025 noch einmal verschärft. Israel sah sich bereits seit Oktober 2023 mehrfach dem Vorwurf ausgesetzt, durch die Blockade...
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Sacred Days, Silent Guns?
19.05.2025
The relationship between religion and international humanitarian law (IHL) has been the subject of academic study for decades: Rules of IHL are reflected in the teachings of most if not...
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#46 Internet für Alle? Debatten über den Internetzugang als Menschenrecht
09.05.2025
Jasmin Wachau
Rouven Diekjobst
Isabel Lischewski
In den letzten Jahren ist die Zahl der Internetnutzer:innen weltweit kontinuierlich gewachsen, während vielen Menschen der Zugang zum Netz nach wie vor verwehrt bleibt. Gleichzeitig berichten zahlreiche Regionen von...
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#45 Ohne Schutz? Die Integrität von Wahlen und ausländische Einflusskampagnen
11.04.2025
Erik Tuchtfeld
Rouven Diekjobst
Isabel Lischewski
Im Dezember letzten Jahres hat mit dem rumänischen Verfassungsgericht erstmalig ein Gericht eine Wahl aufgrund einer ausländischen Einflusskampagne in sozialen Netzwerken annulliert. Die Debatte über den Schutz von Wahlen...
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Editorial #43: The Ides of March
12.03.2025
In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Caesar is warned to “Beware the Ides of March” (Act I, Scene II). Still, he did not foresee his eventual assassination and was blindsided by his...
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Kein Geld für die Taliban
15.09.2023
Am vergangenen Montag, wohl kaum zufällig am 11. September, forderte ein Minister der Taliban-Regierung in einem Interview mit der NZZ Reparationszahlungen von Deutschland und kündigte an, Deutschland und weitere Bündnispartner...
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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 (Sissy) 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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