News Roundup – 22 January 2013
About the author(s):
Katharine Fortin is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches international humanitarian law and international human rights. Before joining Utrecht University, she worked at the ICTY, ICC and Norton Rose Fulbright. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Lieber Prize. Katharine has written widely about the framework of law that applies to armed groups in non-international armed conflicts and she is one of the editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog. She has recently started a 3-year NWO-Veni research project called ‘Dangerous Liaisons: civilian agency, armed groups and international law’.
FARC launch several attacks after ceasefire ends.
Interesting post over at EJIL: Talk! on Would it be lawful for European (or other) States to Provide Arms to the Syrian Opposition?
Torture on the rise in Afghan jails, says UN report.
Anti-torture efforts in Afghanistan jails failed, says UN report.
Calm returns to Eritrea after government siege ends.
Ugandan troops kill Joseph Kony’s bodyguard in CAR.