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Published in: 50.50This is how we won a historic victory for women’s and LGBTIQ rights in international lawThe final draft of a new international crimes against humanity treaty has dropped an outdated definition of gender,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIsrael complains about violation of its sovereignty while being a serial violatorIn the 4-month period from 1 July to 30 October 2017, Israel violated Lebanon’s airspace 758 times for a total of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe politics of water access under occupation: is international law sufficient?In an era of “Trump’s Israel,” complete so far with uninhibited settlement expansion and an emboldened Israeli...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTrump is creating a real threat to security by trumpeting a false oneThe order is not only morally reprehensible and legally problematic; it is also strategically irresponsible and will...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPalestinian refugees fleeing Syria: an argument for protecting humanitarian law in US politicsThe extremist goals of those who seek to abolish such laws reflect a deeply problematic ideology, in which guilt by...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRecolonising international law: Israel’s naval blockade against GazaIsrael invokes the privileges of engaging in international armed conflict but denies Palestinians their...
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Published in: openSecurityObama's human-rights lacuna in struggle against ‘extremism’The US president went on the front foot against fundamentalist violence in the Middle East at a summit in...
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Published in: openSecuritySettling accounts: what happens after SwissLeaks?The SwissLeaks scandal around the HSBC bank subsidiary there has highlighted how globalisation can facilitate...
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Published in: openSecurityUkraine ceasefire announced at Minsk summit—what next?The ceasefire agreement in Minsk over Ukraine was better than no outcome at all. But only a little better.
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Published in: openSecurity“Frankly, I don’t think we know who we killed”A drone strike in Somalia highlights how the US is increasingly pursuing a strategy of remote-control warfare.
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Published in: openSecurityBlowback: the failure of remote-control warfareIt all seemed so convenient: remote-control warfare would minimise military casualties while rendering the civilian...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy the fight against Islamic State is not the success we're told it isIs John Kerry right to be so gung-ho about military successes against Islamic State? Not really—as the fundamental...
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Published in: openSecurityIn Ukraine, NATO has ceased to be an instrument of US foreign policyIn the renewed cold war over Ukraine, while Russia’s economy has been weakened by European sanctions, the US is no...
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Published in: openSecurityCIA torture programme cast a wide netThe CIA’s ‘deep interrogation’ and the Guantánamo detention camp came to symbolise the US ‘war on terror’. Yet it...
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Published in: openSecurityUkraine steels for more unrest as Donetsk bus attack kills 12The latest violence in eastern Ukraine would lead most observers to think an end to the military and political...
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Published in: openSecurityDominic Ongwen and the slow-grinding wheels of the International Criminal CourtHe may not be a household name but his eventual trial at the ICC may highlight the long-forgotten victims of the...
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Published in: openSecurityHow the US made torture politicalThe US Senate committee report, far from reinforcing the absolute prohibition against torture, has turned the crime...
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Published in: openSecurityEthnicised justice and dealing with the past in ex-YugoslaviaThere was much hope in the international community that the Hague war-crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia, allied...
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Published in: openSecurityWestern Sahara: Africa’s last colonyAs 2015 opens, the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara have been waiting for a self-determination referendum for four...
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Published in: openSecurityDeadly cargo: explosive weapons in populated areasIt’s been a year of searing images of horrifying mass civilian injury and death, from Gaza to eastern Ukraine. The...
