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The post Symposium „Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? Animals, Nature, Corporations and Robots as (Potential) Human Rights Subjects“ appeared first
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Within three months of instituting proceedings against Israel in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
in the Gaza Strip, South Africa made three requests for provisional measures (here and here): the first request led to the indication of six provisional measures [...]
Mohamed Wa Baile, a Swiss citizen of Kenyan origin, was stopped by the municipal police in the Zurich train station when he was on his way to work. According to the police
officer in charge, he stopped Mr Wa Baile because of his behaviour, which appeared suspicious to him as Mr Wa Baile looked away when he realised that he was a police [...]
The law on decolonization has two primary objectives: transfer power from colonizer to people in accordance with their will and protect the people until that happens. On 21 March 2024,
Advocate General Ćapeta delivered three linked opinions at the European Court of Justice that seriously undermine these objectives. [...]
Since declaring independence in 2008, Kosovo has made the recognition of its statehood and the related issue of its membership in international organizations a priority of
its foreign policy. After the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recommended on 16 April 2024, by 131 votes in favour, 29 against and 11 abstentions, [...]
[Dearbhla Minogue is a senior lawyer at the Global Legal Action Network and a consultant solicitor with Bindmans LLP. Leanna Burnard is a lawyer at the Global Legal Action
Network and a consultant with Bindmans LLP.] The authors represent the World Uyghur Congress before the UK Court of Appeal. [...]
Perhaps the thorniest issue that the European Court had to address in Klimaseniorinnen was how to square the prohibition on actio popularis with the granting of standing to
the applicant association, but not to the individual applicants. How can the four individual applicants lack victim status, as the Court held, yet the association, [...]
1. Call for Applications: 4th Kırımlı Dr. Aziz Bey International Humanitarian Law Competition & Advanced Summer School. This summer school and competition will take place
between 9 – 14 September 2024 in Heybeliada, İstanbul, Türkiye. The Competition & the Advanced Summer School are organized by the Istanbul Center for International [...]
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Yearbook
of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 27 (2024): The theme of this year’s Call for Papers is “International Humanitarian Law Under Pressure”. [...]