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From “Blinking Red” to AMIA: An Emerging Standard of Intelligence Failure Under the Right to Life

June 10, 2026

On 1 September 2004, more than a thousand people were taken hostage in School No. 1 in Beslán, North Ossetia. Three days later, at least 334 of them — including 186 children — were dead. On 18 July 1994, a vehicle laden with explosives detonated in front of the headquarters of the AMIA — the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, the central institution of Argentina's Jewish community — in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring more than 150. In April 2017, the European Court of Human Rights held Russia liable under Article 2 ECHR in Tagayeva and Others v. Russia. In January 2024, the Inter-American Court did the same to Argentina under Articles 4(1) and 5 ACHR in Asociación Civil Memoria Activa v. Argentina, Series C No. 516 (26 January 2024) (the AMIA case). The two judgments reached the same diagnosis along independent doctrinal paths; and, in a move that has so far attracted little attention, the Inter-American Court expressly invoked the Strasbourg Court's §482 of Tagayeva in §125 of AMIA, as it…

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The Twice-Coerced Zambia and the Synergy Between Human Rights Violations and Prohibited Intervention

May 13, 2026

Last week, like many other scholars and activists, I was due to participate in RightsCon, the leading conference on human rights in the digital age. This year it was supposed to take place in Zambia, with thousands of participants. The conference is organised by Access Now. They had for many months directly cooperated with the…

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Forced Sterilisation before the Inter-American Court: Between Progress and Silence in Ramos Durand v. Peru

April 1, 2026

On 5 March, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACtHR) notified its long-awaited judgment in Celia Edith Ramos Durand v. Peru. The case concerns the forced sterilisation of Celia Edith Ramos Durand and stands for thousands of predominantly Indigenous women who were sterilised under coercive conditions in Peru in the late 1990s. It is only the second…

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The Court That Built the Advisory Opinion It Refused to Complete: OC-30/25 on Arms Trafficking, Corporate Immunity, and the Reach of Advisory Jurisdiction

March 26, 2026

Mexico’s effort to hold the gun industry to account has now encountered an institutional setback in San José. Its request for an advisory opinion raised six questions before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR). This post examines, against a more expansive account of OC-30/25 offered here, whether laws granting public or private arms-industry companies…

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The Inter‑American Court’s Warning Shot: Illicit U.S. Firearms and the Hemispheric Duty States Keep Ignoring

March 23, 2026

Criminal organizations finance, procure, broker, transport, and illegally distribute U.S.‑made weapons throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to fuel political violence in the region. Latin America is experiencing a surge of violence that is neither spontaneous nor locally contained. It is engineered—manufactured, trafficked, and laundered through a hemispheric supply chain that begins overwhelmingly in the United States and…

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