The dispute about Greenland has been conducted by the US as a zero-sum game. Either ‘ownership’ over Greenland would be handed over to Washington, or else economic…

On 31 October 2025, the Security Council voted in favour of Resolution 2797 extending the mandate of the long-standing UN mission to Western Sahara, but this time…

New Caledonia, a French overseas territory in the Pacific, might become a state within France. The French government and six delegations representing pro- and anti- independence factions in…

1. Introduction Much has changed since the ICJ held, in its 1975 Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara (at paragraph 162), that Morocco had no…

In May 2025, the Colombian government took a historic step toward realising a long-delayed constitutional promise: by means of a decree, it recognised the right of indigenous…

Article 42 of the Hague Regulations (HR), annexed to the 1907 Hague Convention IV, provides that a territory is considered occupied ‘when it is actually…

Yesterday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights published a landmark ruling in the case of Pueblos Indígenas Tagaeri y Taromenane v. Ecuador,…

The United States and Denmark have been embroiled in political tensions over President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland, possibly even by force. The Prime…

On January 8, 2025, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump questioned Denmark’s legal rights to Greenland, stating, “people don’t really know if Denmark has any legal rights to [Greenland].”…

As the public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change drew to a close on…