by Angeline Lewis | Aug 17, 2022
“Weaponizing” Sexual Violence In War – An IHL Problem As the war in Ukraine approaches the six-month mark, reports of sexual violence against women and girls, and also men and boys, mount almost daily. In an extraordinary step, trials of Russian soldiers accused of...
by Hanne Cuyckens | May 16, 2022
Foreign Fighters: The Terrorism/IHL Conundrum and the Need for Cumulative Prosecution The attack launched by ISIS on 20 January 2022 against the Al-Sina’a Prison in Al-Hasakah, an area situated in North-Eastern Syria and currently under the authority of the...
by Ezequiel Heffes | Apr 21, 2022
Non-State Armed Groups’ Perspectives of IHL: The FARC-EP Case Non-State armed groups (NSAGs) are one of the dramatis personae in the current humanitarian landscape. Not only do these entities use armed violence to achieve their military and political goals, they also...
by Marco Sassòli | Apr 14, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Results of a First Enquiry into Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Ukraine On 3 March 2022 the Moscow Mechanism of the human dimension of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was invoked by Ukraine...
by Marco Sassòli | Mar 3, 2022
Application of IHL by and to Proxies: The “Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk From March 2014 until 23 February 2022, Russia denied any involvement in Ukraine (other than Crimea which it has annexed). It claimed that hostilities in the Donbas were conducted by forces...
