The Role of the Private Sector in Ensuring Respect for IHL

The Role of the Private Sector in Ensuring Respect for IHL

The Role of the Private Sector in Ensuring Respect for IHL On September 12th, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) published its report, International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflicts. It is customary for the ICRC to...
Ukraine Symposium – Transfers of POWs to Third States

Ukraine Symposium – Transfers of POWs to Third States

Ukraine Symposium – Transfers of POWs to Third States Introduction On 9 June 2023, media reported that Hungary received eleven Ukrainian Prisoners of War (POWs) from Russia. More than a week later, Reuters reported that three of these persons had been repatriated to...
Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan

Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan

Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan On 23 November 2022, the district court of the Hague handed down its judgment in a case brought against the State of the Netherlands by relatives of persons killed during fighting in the Chora district,...
Ukraine Symposium – Forced Conscription in the Self-Declared Republics

Ukraine Symposium – Forced Conscription in the Self-Declared Republics

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...
Common Article 1 and the Conflict in Ukraine

Common Article 1 and the Conflict in Ukraine

Common Article 1 and the Conflict in Ukraine ​The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing armed conflict raise a host of questions related to international humanitarian law (IHL). Some of these concern the legal relationship between Russia and Ukraine only. Others...