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Marten Zwanenburg
| Oct 8, 2024 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict
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...
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Marten Zwanenburg,
Arjen Vermeer
| Jul 19, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
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...
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Marten Zwanenburg
| Dec 19, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
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,...
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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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Marten Zwanenburg
| Mar 10, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
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...