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Michael N. Schmitt
| Aug 8, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Amnesty International’s Allegations of Ukrainian IHL Violations On 4 August, Amnesty International released a report criticizing Ukraine for placing civilians at risk “by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated...
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Marten Zwanenburg
| Aug 8, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Forced Conscription in the Self-Declared Republics The Guardian recently reported that men in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine are being forcibly conscripted into the armed forces of the self-declared Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) and...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Aug 2, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Forced Civilian Labor in Occupied Territory On July 27, the Institute for the Study of War reported that “Russian occupation officials are likely leveraging food aid and other humanitarian assistance to force occupied populations to cooperate...
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Matteo Winkler
| Aug 2, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Law of Armed Conflict
A Queer Eye on the Law of Armed Conflict Author’s note: This post reflects a presentation given at the twenty-second congress of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (ISMLLW) held in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, between May 10 and 14, 2022...
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René Provost
| Jul 15, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Rebel Prosecutions of Foreign Fighters in Ukraine On 1 July 2022 Russian state media reported that two British nationals captured by the “Donetsk People’s Republic” in eastern Ukraine would be prosecuted for “mercenary activities,” in...
