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More on Public International Law and Infectious Diseases: Foundations of the Obligation to Report Epidemic Outbreaks

August 15, 2019

Olha Bozhenko

In his recent post on the 2018-2019 Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr. Villarreal inter alia mentions the connection between the International Health…

An Unforeseen Pandora’s Box? Absolute Non-Refoulement Obligations under Article 5 of the ILC Draft Articles on Crimes Against Humanity

May 20, 2019

Hannes Jöbstl

Introduction In 2013, the International Law Commission (ILC) added to its long-term work programme the topic of a convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes…

WTO Dispute on the US Human Rights Sanctions is Looming on the Horizon

January 31, 2019

Iryna Bogdanova

At the turn of the year, Venezuela initiated a WTO dispute with the United States. In a nutshell, Venezuela questions WTO-consistency of a number of coercive trade-restrictive…

Parliaments as Human Rights Actors – Proposed Standards from the UN

June 21, 2018

Philippa Webb

Kirsten Roberts Lyer

On 13 June 2018, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released its report on the Contribution of parliaments to the work of…

A New Extraterritorial Jurisdictional Link Recognised by the IACtHR

March 28, 2018

Antal Berkes

In its recently published Advisory Opinion on “The Environment and Human Rights” of 15 November 2017 (in EJIL: Talk! summarized here; on its potential diagonal…

International Migration: Shared Commitment to Children’s Rights and Protection

January 10, 2018

Ruth Brittle

On 17 November 2017, the Committee on the Rights of Child (CRC Committee) together with the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and…