The Genocide Convention that Israel has been accused of violating may contain a critical loophole when it comes to military ...

The Independent Expert Panel (IEP), formulated for articulating the definition of the term “ecocide”, proposed a definition to construct a cornerstone international crime of ecocide that demonstrates ...

Let’s take a closer look. What does it take to be a state? There is no single definition of a state, but international law widely cites the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The UN has previously ...

When the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded earlier this month that Israel’s war on Gaza amounts to a genocide, it was not alone. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, submitted to the UN General Assembly in 2019 (the “Draft Articles ...

This week, the International Association of Genocide Scholars announced that it had passed a resolution determining that Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza, according to international law. As part ...

Definition of crimes against humanity should be based on a comprehensive and thorough examination of state practices and aim to build the broadest possible consensus among all parties, Geng Shuang, ...