IntLawGrrls » Middle East and North Africa

As the issue of denuclearization in the interest of global peace and security continues to be of pressing concern to the world, there is a growing tendency to prioritize such matters of internati...

https://ilg2.org/2018/12/08/calculus-deal-doggedness-and-human-rights-diplomacy/

National Prosecutions based on Universal Jurisdiction: the cases of Germany, Sweden, and “France” Last June, Germany’s chief prosecutor issued an international arrest warrant for Jamil Hass...

https://ilg2.org/2018/12/07/syria-and-domestic-prosecutions-upholding-hope-one-case-at-a-time-part-2-of-2/

As of July 2018, more than 500 000 people had been killed as a result of the conflict in Syria, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. With the UN Special Envoy for S...

https://ilg2.org/2018/12/07/syria-and-domestic-prosecutions-upholding-hope-one-case-at-a-time-part-1-of-2/

Over the past week, I had the honor of presenting at two different conferences on statehood and recognition issues: the first one was held at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and its offic...

https://ilg2.org/2018/11/12/international-law-on-statehood-and-recognition-israeli-palestinian-conflict-and-the-south-caucasus/

Twenty years ago, on September 2nd, 1998, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) handed down a landmark trial judgment in the Akayesu case: the first to define rape as a crime agai...

https://ilg2.org/2018/09/02/the-akayesu-judgment-at-20-looking-back-pushing-forward/

Once hidden and unspoken, reports of sexual violence now feature prominently in daily media dispatches from conflict zones around the world. This visibility has contributed to a new emphasis on p...

https://ilg2.org/2018/07/11/new-supplements-to-the-international-protocol-on-documentation-and-investigation-of-sexual-violence-in-conflict-for-iraq-myanmar-and-sri-lanka/

The editor of the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (Rebecca Ruth Gould), are seeking contributions relating to the intersections of law, translation, and activism. The full CfP is ...

https://ilg2.org/2018/07/06/cfp-law-translation-and-activism/

Earlier this week, the Assad regime most likely used chemical weapons against its own population in Syria. Up to 500 people may have been affected by this chemical attack, and approximately 75 in...

https://ilg2.org/2018/04/12/syria-and-the-limits-of-international-law/

Last month marked the seventh anniversary of the Syrian uprising. The Syrian people were late in joining the Arab Spring and within months after they did civil unrest descended into war. As the y...

https://ilg2.org/2018/04/11/sexual-violence-in-syria-acting-on-what-we-know/

Today, as we celebrate International Women’s Day, let us take a moment to consider the plight of female prisoners of conscience, a group of women distinguished both by their exceptional heroism...

https://ilg2.org/2018/03/08/remembering-female-prisoners-of-conscience-on-international-womens-day/