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Redefining apartheid in the Crimes against Humanity Treaty: Towards inclusive pathways forward
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (680+ words) [Dr Nora Jaber is a Lecturer in Law in the Globalised Muslim World at the University of Edinburgh Law School, where she also serves as Programme Director of the Human Rights LLM and Deputy Director of the Al-Waleed Centre for…...
Race, Gender and Apartheid in the Draft CAH Treaty: South Africa's Role
9+ mon, 1+ day ago (276+ words) [Lisa Davis is a professor of law at CUNY Law School, and the ICC special adviser on Gender and Other Discriminatory Crimes. Kirby Anwar is a senior legal fellow at Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, CUNY School of Law,…...
April 30th Deadline: States Should Start CAH Treaty Negotiations with this Modernized Apartheid Definition
2+ week, 4+ day ago (440+ words) [Lisa Davis is a professor of law at CUNY Law School, and the ICC special adviser on Gender and Other Discriminatory Crimes. Kirby Anwar is Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, CUNY School…...
The Af CHPR's New Due Diligence Benchmark in Centre for Human Rights v. Tanzania
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (276+ words) In association with the International Commission of Jurists [Arunava (Avi) Banerjee is a research assistant at the University of Tartu and an Erasmus Mundus scholar in the International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development (ILGSPD) programme] Context for the…...
General Comment No. 27 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Transformation of the Concept of Child-Centered Justice
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (370+ words) In association with the International Commission of Jurists [Mohammad Mehdi Seyed Nasseri is a researcher at the Center for Ethics and Law Studies and lecturer at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran). He holds a Ph D in public international law from…...
Criminal Court in South Africa Confirms Charges in Historic First Prosecution of the Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (735+ words) [Gerhard Kemp is professor of criminal law at UWE Bristol, and extraordinary professor of public law at Stellenbosch University] On Monday, 14 April 2025, the high court in Johannesburg issued an important ruling in the historic first criminal prosecution of two individuals…...