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Ghandhi Research Seminar Series; CfS ASIL Interest Group; CfA Nordic Symposium on the Law of Armed Conflict; CfP Causal Inquiry for Finding Breaches of Human Rights Obligations ECHR; CfP ILA Committee on ADR in International Law; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seminar & Book Launch; CfP Polish Review of International & European Law; Research Methods in Fundamental Rights Workshop – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

January 12, 2025 by admin

1. Ghandhi Research Seminar Series 2024- 2025. Global Law at Reading (GLAR) is Reading’s research hub for public international law, EU law and human rights law, and it has a proud international reputation for research excellence in these areas. The Ghandhi Research Seminar Series was launched in 2015, named in honour of Professor Sandy Ghandhi, who taught at the School of Law from 1978 to 2013 and remains an emeritus professor at Reading. Anyone is welcome to attend these seminars, and attendance is free. Seminars as follows: 11 February, 13-13.00 – Professor Gregory Fox (Wayne State University), Civil War Peace Agreements: Inside or Outside International Law? – Palmer Building 107 or via Teams; 24 February, 12 – 13.00 -Dr Justina Uriburu (University of Manchester), Missing Pieces of Peace: A History of International Dispute Settlement – Palmer Building 106 or via Teams; 5 March, 11 – 12.00 – Katherine Reece-Thomas (City, University of London) The Commercial Activity Exception to State Immunity – Henley Business School G13 or via Teams; 19 March, 12 – 13.00 – Professor Nazila Ghanea (University of Oxford), Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Parsing out Religion from Politics in the Work of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief – Palmer Building 103 or via Teams; and, 12 May 12-13.00 -Professor Frédéric Mégret (McGill University), What is International Human Rights Law For? – Palmer Building 111 or via Teams.

2. Call for Submissions: The American Society of International Law Interest Group on International Legal Theory. The American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Legal Theory has issued its annual call for submissions for its International Refugee Law Student Writing Prize. More details about the award criteria and submission process are available in the attached call for submissions. The winner will be recognized at the ASIL Annual Meeting in April 2025, as well as receiving a free one-year ASIL student membership, free admission to the ASIL Annual Meeting, assistance with travel expenses, and a credit to purchase books from Oxford University Press.

Gaps and Solutions – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

January 10, 2025 by admin

“Shoot all you see and all you hear” – after receiving this order from his commanding officer in August 2017, Pvt. Myo Win Tun confessed in a video confession years later to having participated in the killings of 30 Rohingya Muslims and burying them in a mass grave close to a cell tower and a military base. If nothing else, the preceding confession should make abundantly clear to a reader the horrific life that the Rohingya were forced to live in Myanmar.

The Rohingya have endured decades of systematic discrimination, statelessness, and targeted violence, which persist to this day. More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since August 2017 to avoid detention, torture, rape, and other grave human rights violations after a “clearance operation” conducted by the Myanmar military. Bangladesh now hosts around one million Rohingya refugees.

Bangladesh is well aware of the sufferings of refugees as its own people have experienced the horror of being forced to flee their own country to escape torture and mass killing. Following the landslide victory of the Awami League in the 1970 election, West Pakistani leaders began procrastinating. On the night of 25th March 1971 the Pakistani military launched ‘Operation Searchlight’ against unarmed civilians of East Pakistan. Thousands of people died in the first few days, and an estimated 10 million people fled from Bangladesh, crossing the border and seeking refuge in India while 30 million were internally displaced.

Argentina v Venezuela? Notes on Diplomatic Tensions and International Dispute Settlement – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

January 9, 2025 by admin

On 8 December 2024, Venezuelan authorities detained Argentine military police officer Nahuel Agustín Gallo after he entered the country from Colombia. According to Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gallo first travelled by car to Chile, then by plane to Bogotá, and finally by taxi to the Venezuelan border in order to reunite with his Venezuelan partner and their two-year-old child. On 27 December, the Venezuelan Public Ministry, led by Attorney-General Tarek William Saab, announced criminal charges against Gallo for alleged terrorist activities, accusing him of concealing a ‘criminal plan’ under the guise of a family visit. Argentina’s Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein dismissed these accusations, calling the detention arbitrary and insisting that Gallo’s sole purpose was to spend time with his family.

Lithuania’s Constitutional Court Rules Seeing Same-Sex Relationships Won’t Turn Kids Gay – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

January 8, 2025 by admin

On 18 December 2024, the Lithuanian Constitutional Court held that the law, prohibiting the dissemination of public information depicting same-sex relationships is unconstitutional as it violates the freedom of thought of children and the right to found a family under the Constitution of Lithuania. The decision follows the rationale of the European Court of Human … Read more

Meat as the Next Frontier in Global Climate Change Policy – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

January 7, 2025 by admin

In November 2024, deep in the corridors of the climate change COP 29 in Baku, the True Animal Protein Price (TAPP) Coalition worked tirelessly to collect signatures on a document that many observers may have considered quixotic. The document called on states to commit to ‘transitioning away from animal protein overconsumption’ through implementing greenhouse gas emission pricing in agri-food systems.

States had little interest in committing to such a transition. When they spoke of ‘transitioning away’, they meant fossil fuels, not meat. The closing document of the 2023 COP had called on states to contribute to ‘Transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems’ to achieve net zero by 2050. In Baku, states were bogged down in discussions about whether or not to reaffirm this ambition. For most states, the proposal to transition away from fossil fuels and animal protein was over the top.