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- Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Military Personal Data Processing November 11, 2025Photo: Dept. of Defence This post follows on from related posts by Wojciech Wiewiórowski and Mariana Salazar Albornoz. Introduction Personal data has become an integral part of humanitarian action. Leading humanitarian actors such as the ICRC and UNHCR have reacted to this reality by developing rigorous data protection frameworks. Simultaneously, personal data has also become […]Tatjana Grote
- Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: A View from the Americas November 11, 2025This post follows on from Wojciech Wiewiórowski‘s introduction to Data Protection in Humanitarian Action. Personal Data at the Core of Humanitarian Action According to the UN, by the end of May 2025, nearly 300 million people around the world were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and protection. Many of the emergency response services […]Mariana Salazar Albornoz
- Leaving Out ‘Leaving it in the Ground’: The ECtHR’s Greenpeace Nordic Judgment November 10, 2025Introduction On 28 October 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) pronounced its judgment in the case of Greenpeace Nordic and Others v Norway, a case concerning the issuance of licenses for exploration of oil and gas reserves in the Barents Sea. This was a new type of climate case for the ECtHR since […]Pranav Ganesan
- Data Protection in Humanitarian Action November 10, 2025Introduction To mark ten years of progress in data protection in humanitarian action, this post is part of a special blog series accompanying the recently published Routledge volume Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Responding to Crises in a Data-Driven World. A joint initiative of the Data Protection Office of the International Committee of the Red […]Wojciech Wiewiórowski
- Announcements: CfS ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize; CfEL Armed Conflict and Climate Change Workshop; CfP Human Rights Essay Award; Year of Climate Change in International Courts Colloquium; CfA Yearbook on the Law of the Sea; JLU Online Winter University; CfP Polish Review of International and European Law November 9, 20251. Call for Submissions: ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize. Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 American Society of International Law International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize. The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2026 at 5:00 p.m. EST. The winner will be announced and recognized at the ASIL Annual Meeting in April 2026. […]Mary Guest
- Anchoring Criminal Jurisdiction at Sea: The Helsinki District Court’s Eagle S Judgement and its impact for the protection of submarine cables and pipelines November 7, 2025The Eagle S incident – a refresher On Christmas Day 2024, the Estlink 2 electricity cable connecting Finland and Estonia was cut by the Eagle S, an oil tanker sailing under the flag of the Cook Islands and linked to the Russian ‘shadow fleet’ (the vessel was later added to the EU’s list of sanctioned […]Tom Ruys
- The EU Reparation Loan as Solutio Damni for Ukraine November 6, 2025At the October 2025 European Council, European leaders invited the Commission ‘to present, as soon as possible, options for financial support’ for Ukraine based on the use of immobilised Russian assets. This request followed more than three years of debate (see here, here, and here) and culminated in Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement […]Davide Genini
- Casual Vacancy Elections and “Pre-Campaigning” for Permanent Elections November 5, 2025Following Judge Abulqawi Yusuf’s resignation from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations will hold an election on 12 November 2025, to fill his vacant seat for the remainder of his term, which was set to expire by February 2027. These elections will take place only a year before the original date of […]Noam Morris
- The Security Council and the Western Sahara: Between Self-Determination and Implicit Recognition of Moroccan Sovereignty November 4, 2025On 31 October 2025, the Security Council voted in favour of Resolution 2797 extending the mandate of the long-standing UN mission to Western Sahara, but this time referenced Morocco’s 2007 Autonomy Proposal – which envisions the territory as self-governing under Moroccan sovereignty – as a basis for negotiations and the final status of Western Sahara. […]Kushtrim Istrefi
- The 1.5°C Temperature Target as a Means to an End: Key Implications of the ICJ’s Interpretation of the Paris Agreement’s Overall Objective November 4, 2025Introduction In its 2025 Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (AO), the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave its imprimatur to the aim of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels as the current ‘consensus target’ of the Paris Agreement (para 224), consciously abandoning the target of ‘well […]Rita Guerreiro Teixeira