{"id":19583,"date":"2023-03-14T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/?p=19583"},"modified":"2023-03-15T09:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:56:29","slug":"editorial-26-springing-into-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/editorial-26-springing-into-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial #26: Springing into March"},"content":{"rendered":"

March has already been a rather busy month on the blog, and as the second annual \u2018Women in International Law<\/a>\u2019 symposium took over last week, you are only hearing from us with the V\u00f6lkerrechtsblog\u2019s monthly news now. That of course does not mean that we would let you spring into March without a recapitulation of February\u2019s main international law developments, as the latter were featured on our blog. Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n

In February\u2019s first article, Isabella Risini explored<\/a> the impact of school closures during the Corona pandemic in 2021 on the enjoyment of the right to education and the right to physical and psychological integrity. Shiva\u00a0Sharifzad and Reza\u00a0Khabook critically analysed<\/a> Iran\u2019s internet shutdowns and questioned whether they constituted a form of emergency derogation or human rights curtailment. Moreover, against the background of the recently issued judgement of the European Court of Human Rights on Fedotova v. Russia<\/em>, Jens\u00a0Theilen reflected<\/a> on the future of sexual orientation and gender identity in human rights. Subsequently, Aaron\u00a0Ramcharan underlined<\/a> the significance of a revitalised global environmental organisation, and Tjorben\u00a0Studt highlighted<\/a> the necessity of a structural investigation into the cultural genocide in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Shinya\u00a0Ito explored<\/a> what the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has to say about the problem of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom, while Teresa Wei\u00df assessed<\/a> whether Russia is violating the right to food through the invasion of Ukraine. Following the recent earthquakes that pledged Turkey and Syria, Ansgar\u00a0M\u00fcnichsdorfer argued<\/a> that the portrayal of border crossings in north-west Syria as either \u2018open\u2019 or \u2018closed\u2019 is misleading and that\u00a0the United Nations\u2019 choice not to invoke \u00a0Art. 59 (1) of Geneva Convention IV unnecessarily benefits al-Assad at the expense of the hard-hit population.<\/p>\n

During February, a series of interviews were also published on the blog. The first interview of the month was conducted by Hendrik Simon, who interviewed<\/a> Ntina Tzouvala on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of \u2018civilisation\u2019 in the context of the symposium \u2018<\/em>International Law and the Political<\/a>\u2019. Furthermore,<\/em> I am very happy to share that the tenth and eleven interviews of the symposium \u2018The Person behind the Academic<\/a>\u2019 went online last month and I must say that chatting with Diane Desierto<\/a> and Vladislava Stoyanova<\/a> was fascinating. But of course, the end of February also brought the beginning of the Jessup season in Germany, which could not have left the blog untouched. Our Editor-in-Chief, Isabel Lischewski, took the opportunity and interviewed<\/a> our publisher, Prof. Pierre Thielb\u00f6rger, who shared with us the struggles and the joys that came with organizing this year\u2019s Jones Day German National Rounds of the Jessup, as well as his outlook on the future of the competition.<\/p>\n

Finally, February was a busy month for our Media section<\/a>, too. This month\u2019s V\u00f6lkerrechtspodcast explored<\/a> the right to privacy in the digital age. The section also featured the first Francis Lieber Lecture on International Law, in which Heike Krieger reflected<\/a> on the war in Ukraine and on whether a realistic policy for the 21st century must break free from the shackles of self-imposed international law dogma. Finally, episodes 33 and 34 of the V\u00f6lkerrechtliche Tagesthemen were published. In this context, Farnush Ghadery\u2019s lecture offered<\/a> a historical account of women\u2019s rights and recent attempts at revolutions against oppressive state powers in Iran, focused on the ongoing revolution and underlined the importance of transnational solidarity. In episode 34, Justine Batura and Isabella Risini discussed<\/a> the context and value of the third-State interventions on the occasion of the unprecedented number of member States have requested permission to intervene in the case Ukraine v. Russia<\/em> before the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n

We hope you enjoyed February on the V\u00f6lkerrechtsblog as much as we did, and we look forward to sharing with you the rest of this month\u2019s fascinating content!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March has already been a rather busy month on the blog, and as the second annual \u2018Women in International Law\u2019 symposium took over last week, you are only hearing from us with the V\u00f6lkerrechtsblog\u2019s monthly news now. That of course does not mean that we would let you spring into March without a recapitulation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6639],"tags":[],"authors":[6022],"article-categories":[3577],"doi":[],"class_list":["post-19583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","authors-katsoni","article-categories-our-own-news"],"acf":{"subline":""},"meta_box":{"doi":"10.17176\/20230314-185038-0"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19583"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19600,"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583\/revisions\/19600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19583"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=19583"},{"taxonomy":"article-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-categories?post=19583"},{"taxonomy":"doi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doi?post=19583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}