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I am grateful to the editors of the volume for including this contribution. I also greatly valued the opportunity to present and discuss this work at the 2025 @ESILIGICJ workshop in Berlin—many thanks to the convenors and participants. 5/

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Comparative insights are drawn from Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, and Liberia. These experiences highlight the importance of reparations that are survivor-centred, gender-sensitive, and responsive to broader processes of social repair. 4/

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It analyses Ukraine’s Urgent Interim Reparations Programme—the first of its kind to operate during an active conflict. The programme provides survivors with financial, psychological, and medical support while hostilities continue. 3/

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The chapter examines: - the systemic use of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in Ukraine; - the difficulties of applying international reparations law during an ongoing armed conflict; - specific challenges for addressing CRSV. 2/

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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

My new chapter “Urgent Interim Reparations in Ukraine: Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” is now open access: doi-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/10.4324/9781... A 🧵 on my arguments: 1/

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We also warmly thank the previous E-i-C, @profjmcadam.bsky.social, @profgsgilbert.bsky.social & Guy S. Goodwin-Gill for marvellously steering the journal & all EB members, past & current for rich contributions! @myrmek.bsky.social @catbriddick.bsky.social @ndftan.bsky.social @yuliaioffe.bsky.social

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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In our free inaugural editorial as E-i-C w/Sarah Singer @rli-sas.bsky.social we trace 40 years of scholarship @ the #International_Journal_of_Refugee_Law (OUP) & reflect on new directions: academic.oup.com/ijrl/article... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Totally agree. I just think some recent interpretations of IHL have stretched things so far they’ve become impractical to apply. That kind of overreach may be one factor in the loss of political will—when states feel like full compliance is impossible, they’re more likely to disengage entirely.

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

But the law may be also a problem if formed by those with luxury beliefs—by those who never been in or seen war, arguing from the safety of New York & London, insisting on standards that are only possible in their reality of absence of war.

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🎙️ I joined Dr. Kateryna Rashevska and Dr. Paul R. Williams on the latest Lawyering Peace episode to talk about the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. We talked about the legal classification, the challenges of bringing children home—and what must happen next.

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The Return of Deported Ukrainian Children with Dr. Yulia Ioffe & Dr. Kateryna Rashevska

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8/ Ultimately, adopting this approach would align UK policy more closely with international human rights obligations. 🔗Read the full article here: www.bloomsburyprofessionalonline.com/view/journal...

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7/ I suggest practical ways lawyers can leverage this interpretation of Article 8 ECHR to better protect refugee children's right to family life.

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6/ Current UK immigration rules bar refugee children from sponsoring parents or siblings for reunification, which contradicts international child rights standards, particularly the CRC.

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5/ Article 8 ECHR, interpreted correctly in line with Article 9 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), should presume against family separation.

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4/ Specifically, I advocate for treating the best interests of refugee children as a paramount consideration—not merely a primary one—in family reunification decisions.

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3/ I propose a more robust, child-centred interpretation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), guided by the best interests of the child.

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2/ In this article, I argue that UK immigration rules currently fail refugee children by not adequately protecting their right to reunite with family.

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🧵1/ Excited to share my latest article published in Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law: "Family Reunification Claims of Refugee Children in the UK."

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🗓️ Deadline: Friday 12 September 2025, 12 noon (UK) 🔗 www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

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Call for participants: RSC/IJRL workshop for prospective authors

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

📢 Call for Participants! @refugeestudies.bsky.social & International Journal of Refugee Law invite prospective authors to apply for the 2025 RSC/IJRL Author Workshop — an opportunity to develop your work for publication with expert feedback. 🌟 Especially valuable for early-career scholars!

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

👀 The newest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law is out ✍️ As the newest member of the IJRL's Case Law Editorial Team, I'll contribute with summaries covering Europe and the UK 🤝 Whenever a decision comes out in your country that you believe should be included, then please reach out

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Case Law Summaries

Prepared by Aidan Hammerschmid (Coordinating Editor), Brian Barbour, Regina Jefferies, and Tamara Wood, from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee La

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In ‘Family Reunification Claims of Refugee Children in the UK: Exploring the Potential of Article 8 ECHR Interpreted in Line with the Best Interests of the Child’, @yuliaioffe.bsky.social argues that Art 8 ECHR requires the articulation of a distinctive child-centred approach to family reunification

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The new Special Issue of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law which I co-edited with Violeta Moreno-Lax and @nikkibusu.bsky.social is out! The aim of this SI is to begin to investigate how we can translate legal academic work on immigration and asylum into practical legal arguments

Cover of Issue 39(1) of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law with an overview of the issue's contents

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚨NEW: This is horrific. Musk & DOGE closed the specialist unit at Yale tracking down Ukrainian children kidnapped & stolen by Russia. HOWEVER, it now emerges the entire database may have been DELETED, destroying years of research needed to find missing children. If so, there should be arrests.

Washington Post headline: Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children
Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.

The story is accompanied by a picture of an empty playground.

At that time, the researchers lost access to a trove of information, including satellite imagery and biometric data tracking the identities and locations of as many as 35,000 children from Ukraine.
Most alarming to U.S. lawmakers briefed on the matter is the suspected deletion of the research lab's database amid the scramble to comply with the administration's termination notice -
an action likely to set back efforts to find the missing children and hold to account those responsible for their abduction.
"We have reason to believe that the data from the repository has been permanently deleted," a group of lawmakers led by Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) warned in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. "If true, this would have devastating consequences."

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

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Kseniya Oksamytna @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

📣 My university is hiring for two lines: in International Politics and International Political Economy. Spread the word! Happy to answer questions about the Department.

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Lecturer in International Politics at City St George’s, University of London

Discover Lecturer in International Politics jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Ingunn Lunde @ingunnlu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Honoured to have been part of this panel on Russia’s forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children, organised by Liliia Oprysk at the UiB Law faculty, with @yuliaioffe.bsky.social, Gaiane Nuridzanian and Svitlana Arabadzhy. Recording available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNf...

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Russia’s forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

📢 Join us tomorrow for the INoGS webinar "Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Three Years On." I'll be speaking, alongside Kateryna Busol & Jessie Barton Hronesova, on the forcible transfers of Ukrainian children to Russia, building on the special issue on Ukraine in the Journal of Genocide Research 👇

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Looking forward to this event in Bergen. There’s an online option as well — please join us 👇

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The book isn't going to promote itself, so I will. Here is a New Books Network podcast episode on Intent to Destroy, if you don't have anything better to listen to. Thanks to John Vsetecka for the conversation.

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Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024) - New Books Network

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Just started reading the book — really looking forward to this event with @efinkel.bsky.social

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Lauri Mälksoo @laurimalksoo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

On 9 December 2024, I will speak at the University of Vienna Faculty of Law on imperial patterns in the history of international law in Russia and the Soviet Union. Please come if interested and in Vienna on that day!

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Thanks, that’s very helpful!

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

📢 Join us for an important discussion on Russia's forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children 🕊️🇺🇦 📅 Date: 21 February 2025, at 10:00 📍 Hosted by the University of Bergen (UiB) — in person & online Learn more & register here: www.uib.no/en/jur/17487...

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Russia's forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children

Continuation of Russian colonial policies in Ukraine

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12/ The Special Issue features 7 stellar articles by amazing colleagues & friends: @ampelliconi.bsky.social & others. I highly recommend reading these diverse and original takes on Russia's imperialism. Special thanks to Ken Chan & @laurimalksoo.bsky.social for making it happen! 🙏

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11/ Finally, this paper stems from the 2023 Symposium on Russia, Imperialism & International Law at Kiel University (which was developed into a Special Issue)—one of the highlights of my academic career.

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9/ While a more expansive interpretation of the mens rea would not eliminate all the ambiguities in the legal definition of genocide, it would certainly bring a level of coherence to it, if only to clarify the status of paragraph (e).

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8/ Bringing the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to court as genocide could open doors to a comprehensive exploration of the concept of ‘destruction’ and its cultural dimensions.

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