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9/11 Victims’ Claims to Afghanistan’s Foreign Exchange Reserve

January 31, 2022

Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserve has drawn considerable interest of late. According to recent reports, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the State’s central bank, holds around USD 10 billion in the form of US treasury bonds, gold offshore and other investments. Given that most of the funds are held in the United States Federal Reserve and denominated in foreign currency, they were not affected by the collapse of the afghani. Since August, the afghani has lost more than 25% of its value against the dollar, making it the “the world’s worst-performing currencies over the past six months”. Representatives of the Taliban government are, unsurprisingly, claiming they should have access to the funds. As the situation on the ground deteriorates at an alarming pace, with the country on the brink of famine, there have been calls for the financial reserve to be made accessible to the Afghan people and put to humanitarian purposes. Meanwhile, in November the New York Times reported that lawyers for victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks had gone to…

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Collective Security Treaty Organization: Why are Russian Troops in Kazakhstan?

January 13, 2022

Background One matchstick is enough to burn the house down, especially when gas is involved. Shortly after New Year’s Eve, protests began in Kazakhstan, the biggest and economically strongest state in the Central Asian region, over rising gas prices. The protests have transformed from mere price reduction demands into anti-government riots. A decade ago,…

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The Law and Tech of Two Targeted Killings

September 30, 2021

The New York Times recently published two fascinating pieces on two separate instances of targeted killings. The first is on the tragic denouement of the 20 years of US presence in Afghanistan – a drone strike conducted on 29 August by the US military in Kabul, purportedly against terrorists planning a second deadly attack against…

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Repatriating the Children of Foreign Terrorist Fighters and the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights

November 10, 2020

UPDATE: The CRC admissibility decision referred to in the post is no longer publicly available via ODS. I am unsure as to why that’s the case. Readers can find it here. Now that we have all (sort of) recovered from the US elections, back to our regular programming: last week the UN Committee on…

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Does the FARC still exist? Challenges in Assessing Colombia’s ‘Post Conflict’ under International Humanitarian Law

October 22, 2020

Three years ago last month, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas formally completed demobilization, marking the end of their 53-year conflict with the Colombian government. Over 10,000 FARC members demobilized and handed in weapons in a process verified by a United Nations mission in the country. Nonetheless, some FARC fighters rejected…

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