Humanitarianism, race, and the late colonial global order: Red Cross prison inspections in Apartheid South Africa

Benjamin Davis appealing against dismissal from FAO, after being accused by director general of playing ‘political games’

Abstract. Since the middle of the 19th century, international law in Europe has struggled to reconcile free movement for Europeans and their descendants in

Contestation of International Organizations: Patterns, Drivers, and Responses

A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks

The final meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) took place in Geneva from 31 August to 4 September under the Convention on Certain Conventional...

The new Commentary represents both an important clarification and a missed opportunity when it comes to Article 23 and humanitarian relief.

What is singular and novel about the current threat is that it was born out of the private sector

Few Western countries have been spared controversy about antisemitism in recent years. Well before October 7, 2023, debates about Israel, Jews, and race had periodically convulsed universities, politi...

EU and global regulatory and policy monitoring, fact-checking, legal documents, policy positions, business, finance, digital transformation, security, sustainability.

Colonial difference under UN supervision? Racialized status hierarchies and the reconfiguration of empire in the UN Trusteeship System

Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

"Empires of Slavery: Rights and Power in the Early Modern Iberian World" published on 20 Apr 2026 by Brill | Nijhoff.

Controversial Kinship. Colonial and National Socialist Violence - The Deutsche Historische Museum (DHM), located in Berlin's historic center, illustrates German history in a...

Introduction In the months leading up to the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) embraced its role as the lead party planner, ensuri...

Pretoria (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, met with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday to discuss efforts to make respec...

Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics - Volume 80 Issue 3

Humanitarianism, race, and the late colonial global order: Red Cross prison inspections in Apartheid South Africa

The “fog of war”, “special operation”, a ministry of “war” replacing the ministry of “defense”: words speak volumes – and their absence too, writes international law professor Andrew Clapham, who asks...

The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.

We need to strengthen our system of co-operation, not replace it

Ratko Mladić’s death last week at eighty-three in The Hague—where he was serving a life sentence for committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and

An international tribunal in the Hague on September 16 said it has found former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander and later Kosovo President Hashim Thaci criminally responsible for war crimes.

What was the Cold War?, an article collection from Social Science History

The impact of the conflict on Palestinian men is a largely undiscussed topic. Four civilians talk about their lives and relationships

Cambridge Core - Ethics & International Affairs - Volume 40 - Issue 1

The conference aims to take stock of the attack on human rights discourses and institutions and identify ways of advocating for human rights that are relevant to the current authoritarian era. The his...

Next EU research and innovation programme needs at least €200 billion, sector leaders warn