News Roundup – 3 March 2014
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’.
Afghan warlord in election turnaround.
Rebel infighting kills thousands of Syrians.
Al-Qaida rebels in Syria tell Christians pay up or die.
Syria jihadist group ISIS ‘retreating after warning’.
Pakistani Taliban announce month long truce.
UN helicopters strike Ugandan rebel group in DRC.
The mass graves of Bor, South Sudan.
Let the UN unmask the war criminals of Sri Lanka’s War.
International Crisis Group: Briefing Note: Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka: UNHRC action remains crucial.