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The attack on Ukraine violates the most fundamental rules of international law
27 February 2022The Asser Institute denounces the war of aggression waged by the Russian government against the nation of Ukraine. We respond to our colleagues in Kyiv by affirming that the attack on Ukraine violates the most fundamental rules of international law. The obsce...
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[ICL-TCL training] Strengthening domestic capacity to prosecute international and transnational crimes in Africa
21 February 2022Today begins the third round of a training course on international and transnational criminal law, also known as the ‘ICL-TCL training’. The course aims to empower judges and prosecutors from French-speaking African countries to deal with international and tra...
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[Inter-university programme] Kicking off the tenth season of the Lebanon Lecture Series
2 February 2022The 10th season of the Inter-University Programme (IUP) in Lebanon, also called the Lebanon Lecture Series, begins today. The programme offers Lebanese students the opportunity to learn about international criminal law and procedure. About the Lebanon Lecture...
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[Online symposium] Decolonisation and human rights - the Dutch case
25 January 2022This week, constitutional law blog Verfassungsblog is hosting an online symposium on ‘Decolonisation and human rights in the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ edited by Asser researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz together with PhD researcher Wiebe Hommes (Universit...
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[New blog post] ‘Shifting the narrative: not weapons, but technologies of warfare’
21 January 2022New technologies – especially those with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, even if non-weaponised – are significantly transforming contemporary warfare. In a post for ICRC’s Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Asser researcher Klaudia Klonowska...
