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Black Lives Matter is a Human Rights Issue
Gerald Lenoir
In 2015, Opal Ayo Tometi, one of the three Black women who co-founded Black Lives Matter (BLM), along with this author, co-authored an article on the Time magazine website titled, “Black Lives Matter is Not a Civil Rights Movement.” In that piece, we argued that the Black Lives Matter Movement has been described as the…
Sep 2023
Corporate Accountability, Extraterritoriality and Child Slavery: Lessons From Nestlé v. Doe
Phillip Alexander
Introduction ‘Human rights are inextricably linked to our shared future and a key element of the just transition to regenerative food systems. By respecting and advancing them in our value chain, we are building a foundation that contributes to a resilient future for our planet and its people.’[1] This is the first statement displayed on…
Jul 2023
Is a Two-Party System Possible in Turkey?: Two-Party System vs. Two-Political Alliance System
Batuhan Ustabulut
Introduction Why and how do two-party systems emerge? Why do some countries prefer to implement two-party systems? The answers to these questions come from the political history of the countries; politics build legal rules just as the latter build the former. This study examines the emergence of two-party systems in Turkey through this lens. Political…
Apr 2023
The Legal Significance of the US Recognition of the Atrocities on the Rohingya as Genocide
Dr. Md. Rizwanul Islam
On March 21, 2022, US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken stated that the US concluded that the crimes perpetrated on the Rohingyas in the Rakhine Province of Myanmar amount to crimes against humanity and genocide. The US has also committed to resettle some (though no number was specified) Rohingya to its own territories. Arguably,…
Jan 2023
New Forum Article
Fu Kwong-or Ricky
Fake News in International Conflicts: A Humanitarian Crisis in the Post-Truth Era
Aug 2022
Prosecute or Protect? International Criminal Responsibility and the Recruitment of Isis Brides
Nathalie M. Greenfield
Isis brides played an integral role in the Isis regime. As such, some domestic courts have begun prosecuting girls, like Linda Wenzel, who travelled to Syria to join Isis. These prosecutions raise the questions: Did girls like Linda travel to Syria of their own volition? Are the girls perpetrators or victims of violence? And who…
Mar 2022
The COVID-19 Pandemic and International Law
Oona A. Hathaway, Preston J. Lim, Alasdair Phillips-Robins & Mark Stevens
How does the COVID-19 pandemic affect States’ obligations under international law? This is a question of not just academic interest but real importance for people’s lives. After all, whether States abide by international law—and whether international law is fit for purpose—is vitally important for everyone from refugees exposed to the virus in unsanitary detention centers…
Mar 2022
COVID-19, Surveillance, and the Border Industrial Complex, Vol. 54
Petra Molnar
Technological experimentation at the border is being given free rein, knit together into what amounts to a tapestry of an increasingly powerful global border industrial complex. This experimentation legitimizes techno-solutionism at the expense of human rights and dignity and has only been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Powerful actors—often in the private sector—increasingly dictate what…
Oct 2021
Cornell International Law Journal Online
Refugees and the Scope for Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination, Vol. 54
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Vaccination programs are regularly celebrated as one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions ever developed. Yet, in a global context characterized by an acute lack of vaccines coupled with unfair distribution, COVID-19 vaccination schemes are controversial. Inaccurate and misleading stories about the vaccines risk becoming a “second pandemic.” However, long before COVID-19,…
Oct 2021
Concluding Comments: Revisiting the Principles of Protection for Migrants, Refugees and Other Displaced Persons, One Year On, Vol. 54
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Within the context of the 14 Principles and to conclude this symposium, I provide a few reflections below on the greatest human rights challenges faced by migrants, refugees, and the displaced in the last year. As expected, things have gotten worse, and it will take time to re-establish—or even to establish for the first time—protection…
Oct 2021