Wednesday, June 7, 2023

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 105, no. 923, August 2023) is out. The theme is: "Organized Crime." Contents include:
  • Robert Muggah, Organized crime in armed conflicts and other situations of violence
  • Speech by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
  • Hidden stories: survivors of organized crime Interviews
  • Interview with Sophie Orr
  • Interview with Ghada Whaly
  • Pablo Kalmanovitz, Can criminal organizations be non-state parties to armed conflict?
  • Mark Freeman & Mariana Casij Peña, Negotiating with organized crime groups: questions of law, policy and imagination
  • Chiara Redaelli & Carlos Arévalo, Targeting drug lords: challenges to IHL between lege lata and lege ferenda
  • Thomas Martial, Harvesting vulnerability: the challenges of organ trafficking in armed conflict
  • Mara Tignino, The regulation of crimes against water in armed conflicts and other situations of violence
  • Tosin Osasona, The question of definition: armed banditry in Nigeria’s North-West in the context of IHL
  • Sally Longworth, Symbiosis in violence: A case study from Sierra Leone of the IHL implications of parties to the conflict engaging in organized crime
  • Juan Francisco Padin, Opening Pandora’s box: the case of Mexico and the threshold of non-international armed conflict
  • Najla Nassif Palma, Is Rio de Janeiro preparing for war? Combatting organized crime or engaging in a non-international armed conflict?
  • Antoine Perret, Militarization and privatization of security: from the War on Drugs to the fight against organized crime in Latin America
  • John P. Sullivan, Crime wars: operational perspectives on criminal armed groups in Mexico and Brazil
  • Charlotte Mohr, Librarian’s Pick: Intersections in cultural heritage law, edited by Anne-Marie Carstens and Elizabeth Varner
  • Saeed Bagheri, The Legal Limits to the Destruction of Natural Resources in Non- International Armed Conflicts: Applying International Humanitarian Law
  • Pascal Daudin, The Rif War: A Forgotten War
  • George Dvaladze, Unveiling claims of discrimination based on nationality in the context of occupation under international humanitarian and human rights law
  • Kubo Mačák, Will the centre hold?: Countering the erosion of the principle of distinction on the digital battlefield
  • Carrie McDougall, The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry Report and the Applicability of Additional Protocol II to Intervening Foreign Forces
  • Theodor Meron, The bystander, the Good Samaritan and the Just in the Holocaust and IHL
  • Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Rethinking direct participation in hostilities and continuous combat function in light of targeting members of terrorist non-state armed groups
  • Anjli Parrin, “How did they die?”: bridging humanitarian and criminal-justice objectives in forensic science to advance the rights of families of the missing under international humanitarian law
  • Romina Edith Pezzot, IHL in the era of climate change: the extra-territorial application of the UN climate change regime to belligerent occupations
  • Rebecca Sutton & Emiliano J. Buis, Humanitarianism and affect-based education: emotional experiences at the Jean-Pictet Competition
  • Arthur van Coller, Detonating the air: the legality of the use of thermobaric weapons under IHL