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The EU has frozen around 210 billion in Russian central bank assets. Can the money be transferred to Ukraine?

States must invest in “alternative” sites for atrocity prevention because “primary” sites such as the Security Council are foreclosed.

While the Draft Articles include a provision for enslavement, the slave trade and enslavement are distinct international crimes.

An update on the U.N. General Assembly's Sixth Committee session in October, and what to expect for a proposed crimes against humanity treaty.

The law could be used to attack foreign state immunity on multiple fronts, including commercial transactions and IPR, especially against rival states like India and the United States

In light of Iran's ICJ case against Canada, analyzing terrorism exceptions to state immunity under international law.

Gender must be “on the table” throughout the discussion and eventual negotiation of a treaty on crimes against humanity.

A diverse cross-section of States engaged substantively in the first session of a series of discussions on draft articles.

On April 13, 2021, the Japanese government announced its plan to dump more than 1 million tons of nuclear-contaminated water from the tsunami-devastated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea in two years. Now that two years have passed since the announcement, Japan could start dumping the radioactive water into sea any day. Four international law experts share their views on the issue with China Daily.

Using the “overall control” test to attribute Wagner Group conduct to Russia is appealing, but may stretch the law of State responsibility too far.