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Aruni Jayakody

Weekly News Roundup: Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding (September 27, 2013)

  • Sep 27 2013 - 1:37pm   |  
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[As part of its research and policy project on monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding, the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at Harvard University aggregates news detailing recent developments in this domain. For more information about this project, visit the project’s web page.] The Secretary-General’s chemical weapons investigation team returned to Syria to continue to gather... More >>

Rob Grace

Weekly News Roundup: Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding (April 19, 2013)

  • Apr 19 2013 - 1:11pm   |  
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[As part of its research and policy project on monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding, the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at Harvard University aggregates news detailing recent developments in this domain. For more information about this project, visit the project’s webpage.] During a visit to Burkina Faso, Ben Emmerson, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of... More >>

Rob Grace

Allegations of IHL Violations in Libya

  • Jan 27 2012 - 9:26am   |  
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Last week, the Independent Civil Society (ICS) Fact-Finding Mission to Libya published a report documenting alleged violations of international law committed in Libya since the beginning of the 2011 uprising.  The ICS mission was a coordinated effort of three Middle East-based organizations: the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, the Arab Organization for Human Rights, and the International Legal Assistance Consortium.  See... More >>

Rob Grace

Reports of "Extrajudicial Killings" in Libya

  • Oct 28 2011 - 12:10pm   |  
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After last week’s reported capture and subsequent killing of Muammar Qaddafi, elements of the United Nations expressed various levels of concern at the incident.  Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, called for a probe into the killing.  Philippe Kirsch — who leads the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya, which is mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate... More >>

Dustin Lewis

Does the situation in Libya constitute a non-international armed conflict?

  • Mar 1 2011 - 3:53pm   |  
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Recent reports of the use of force against civilians in Libya raise an important question: when does a situation in which a state commits violence against its civilians amount to a non-international armed conflict? The question is significant for a variety of reasons, not least because international law provides a range of modalities through which a state or international body may address use-of-force violations, and discerning... More >>
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