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Category: Human Rights

Preemption or Reprisal? Analyzing President Biden’s Airstrike in Syria

April 28, 2021 Christine Carpenter

With his recent airstrike in Syria, President Biden fell in line with a corrosive interpretation of both jus ad bellum…

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Posted in: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law

The Uyghur Genocide and Remedial Secession: Legal Grounds for the Rebirth of East Turkistan?

April 12, 2021 Victor Santos Mariottini de Oliveira

The Chinese state has consistently upheld assimilative policies since the 19th century, when national unity and political integration arguably became…

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Posted in: Genocide, Human Rights

Myanmar: A Case for Right to Democracy to be a Human Right

March 19, 2021 Abhinav Mehrotra

As Aung San Suu Kyi was about to assume office in Myanmar, on the 1st of February this year, the…

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Posted in: Armed Conflict, Human Rights

Selahattin Demirtaş v. Turkey (no. 2): Prosecution of An Opposition Leader in Turkey

February 24, 2021 Dr. Özgür Çinar

On 22nd December 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its Grand Chamber judgment in Selahattin Demirtaş v…

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Posted in: Human Rights, International Criminal Law

Will the Netherlands Government succeed in Ending Syrian Government’s Impunity for War Crimes?

February 10, 2021 Vaishnavi Chaudhry

On September 18th, 2020, the Netherlands government announced its decision to hold the Assad-led Syrian regime accountable for gross human…

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Posted in: Human Rights, International Criminal Law

COVID-19 measures can infringe the international human right protection against retrospective law: How to avoid?

January 18, 2021 Martin Kwan

It is well established that retrospectivity is against the rule of law and international human rights. It is therefore prohibited…

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Posted in: Human Rights

Australia’s Denationalisation Laws: An International Law Perspective

January 13, 2021 Ali Latash

International law acknowledges nationality as a human right and of fundamental importance to the protection of numerous other rights. Given…

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Posted in: Human Rights

Better Gardening: Reconsidering Optimism and Cynicism towards the International Order

January 12, 2021 Daniel Kang 1 Comment

As the United Nations (UN) recently celebrated its 75th anniversary in October, 2020 has come to a long-awaited close, and…

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Posted in: Human Rights, Public International Law

The Need for International Law to Bid Adieu to the Holocene in Relevance to Rising Sea Levels

December 29, 2020 Adhira Rajesh Menon

Compared to the long planetary history, humans have existed on the face of Earth for a relatively short time but…

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Posted in: Human Rights, Law of the Sea

Oppression of Uyghur Muslims: Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang

December 28, 2020 Shreya Srivastava and Yukta Ambastha

Uyghurs are a Turkic Muslim group who are culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations. They inhabit mostly the…

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Posted in: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law

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