UNSW Cities and Displacement learning exchange

This half-day event will be hosted on 27 August at UNSW’s Kensington campus by the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. It is designed to bring together practitioners and researchers, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of cities and displacement, particularly those issues caused by war and disaster. Full details here.

APCML HIGHLIGHTS

APCML aims to promote greater understanding of and increased respect for the Rule of Law in all aspects of military affairs both within the Australian Defence Force and amongst militaries in the Asia Pacific Region.

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Call for Papers: ANZSIL 28th Annual Conference

The 28th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) will take place on 2 – 4 July 202 in Canberra. The conference will focus on the topic of “International Law in the Third Decade of the 21st Century: A Tool for Challenge or Appeasement?”. The annual conference’s Organising Committee is […]

‘From child soldier to child “terrorist”: safeguarding innocence from counter-terrorism’

This recent post on the ICRC’s Humanitarian Law & Policy blog focuses on the use of child soldiers by terrorist groups, and the problems this raises when such children are potentially designated as both victims and perpetrators under international legal frameworks.

‘International Law and Maritime Terrorism’

This EJIL: Talk! blog post aims to draw attention to the little-studied area of maritime terrorism. The author outlines the need to create a category of maritime terrorism as an international crime, and also analyses some of the difficulties related to defining “maritime terrorism” as such.

‘What Can be Done about the Length of Proceedings at the ICC?’

This recent two-part EJIL: Talk! blog post examines some of the reasons why ICC trials can take so long. Issues include the “cold case” nature of many ICC proceedings; the knock-on effects of delayed arrests; and financial strictures.

‘Are UN PKOs effective?’

This article on the International Peace Institute website interrogates existing assessments of the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs) from various angles. The author concludes that such a multi-faceted enquiry is mandatory when undertaking this exercise, but also notes that effectiveness may hinge on the larger political context and the streamlining of all efforts to sustain peace in […]

‘Implementing International Humanitarian Law through Human Rights Mechanisms: Opportunity or Utopia?’

This recent working paper published by the Geneva Academy focuses on the current lack of mechanisms which IHL possesses to ensure its own compliance. Emilie Max, researcher at the Geneva Academy and author of the paper, explains: “This paper does not pass any judgement on this trend – a trend so entrenched that would, in […]

Lauterpacht Centre latest newsletter available

The Centre’s latest newsletter (issue 29 – Autumn/Winter 2019) is now available online. Articles in this issue include “Before Drones and Cyber: New Histories of the (Old) Law of Armed Conflict” by Dr Giovanni Mantilla. See here.

‘Moving Beyond Mine Risk Education to Risk Awareness and Safer Behaviour’

This recent post on the ICRC’s Humanitarian Law & Policy blog explores why the number of people killed or injured by mines and explosive remnants of war has continued to increase in recent years, ahead of the upcoming Fourth Review Conference for states that are parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.

2020 Human Rights Essay Award Competition

This award is sponsored by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University Washington College of Law. The topic of the 2020 competition is ‘Rule of Law and Human Rights: Strengthening Democratic Institutions’. Participants can choose any subject related to this topic, and international human rights law is stated to be understood […]

For Sama: Reality of Healthcare in Conflict

This Chatham House article discusses the award-winning recent film For Sama, and what one of its main characters Dr Hamza al-Kateab learned while working in East Aleppo’s last remaining hospital.