by Marten Zwanenburg | Dec 19, 2022
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,...
by Marten Zwanenburg | Aug 8, 2022
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...
by Marten Zwanenburg | Mar 10, 2022
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...
by Marten Zwanenburg | Oct 28, 2021
Biometrics and International Humanitarian Law In August 2021, reporting emerged that biometric devices used by United States armed forces in Afghanistan had fallen into the hands of the Taliban. This raised immediate concerns that the devices and the data they give...
by Marten Zwanenburg | Oct 21, 2020
Biometrics on the Battlefield We use biometrics on a daily basis. You need only think of unlocking your phone with your fingerprint, using iris recognition to pass through airport security, or the biometrics integrated into your passport. Considering the...
