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Category: Current Affairs

New Polish Speech Law: An Orwellian Revision of History

March 16, 2018 Siddharth Sonkar

On February 6 , 2018, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a Bill that imposes criminal penalties to anyone who attributes…

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Posted in: Current Affairs Filed under: Polish speech law

Can the Philippines overcome the principle of complementarity?

March 8, 2018 Jenny Domino

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) recently announced her plans to conduct a preliminary examination on Philippine President…

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Posted in: Current Affairs Filed under: International Criminal Court (ICC), Philippines

Prohibition of statelessness and the Rohingya crisis

Swagat Baruah

Introduction The Rohingyas, “the world’s most persecuted minorities”, are facing an unprecedented situation in history. Along with a deepening identity…

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Posted in: Current Affairs, Genocide Filed under: Rohingyas

Withdrawing from Syria – The Illegality of Continued U.S. Presence post-ISIS

February 20, 2018 Yash Karunakaran

With Bashar al-Assad’s increasing control over the Western half of Syria, and the advance of U.S. backed forces in the…

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Posted in: Current Affairs, Public International Law, War Filed under: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

Understanding the ‘Fourth-World’ from the literature on ‘Third-World’ in International Law

February 3, 2018 Abhijeet Singh Rawaley

While a Third-World understanding of international law is a developed and flourishing theme, the concerns of the Fourth-World are still…

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Posted in: Current Affairs Filed under: Fourth-world

A World With No Child Soldiers: Assessing The Impact Of The Vancouver Principles, 2017

January 22, 2018 Sanskriti Sanghi

As children become pawns in the wars of men who call themselves human while seeking a violent expression of their…

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Posted in: Current Affairs, Human Rights, Public International Law

Nullity of Comfort Women Agreement

Hyokyung Jung

    1. Introduction     On the 28th of December in 2015, South Korea and Japan agreed on the ‘ultimate’ solution…

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Posted in: Current Affairs, Human Rights

Understanding the Scattered Anti-Government Uprisings in Iran: Willing to Regime Change or Legitimate Demands for Socio-Economic Human Rights?

January 18, 2018 Saeed Bagheri

During the last four decades of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s rule, the country witnessed the periodic and scattered uprisings…

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Posted in: Current Affairs, Human Rights Filed under: human rights, Iran

What Germany’s New Internet Policing Law Means For Free Speech

January 9, 2018 Raghav Kohli

Respect for freedom of speech and expression has dwindled globally over the last decade. According to the Reporters Without Borders’s…

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Posted in: Current Affairs

Libya-EU Memorandum of Understanding: Implications for Non-Refoulement and Compliance with International Human Rights Law?

December 2, 2017 Jenny Poon

I. Introduction The State of Libya signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Italian Republic in Rome on February 2,…

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Posted in: Current Affairs, Human Rights, Treaties Filed under: Libya, Non-refoulement, refugees

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