Team Leader: Michelle McKenna – Senior Fellow
Our research on global governance maintains a strong legal perspective in analysing major issues in international law, intergovernmental institutions and the International Criminal Court.
Team Leader: Michelle McKenna – Senior Fellow
Our research on global governance maintains a strong legal perspective in analysing major issues in international law, intergovernmental institutions and the International Criminal Court.
Michelle McKenna June 9, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
When the UN was formed, 22% of its members were in the Security Council; now that figure lies at only 8%.
Read More »Amarpreet Cheema June 1, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
As a collective we cannot argue to rally around the notion of human rights and allow the continued use of the death penalty. Human rights will only prevail if abolition becomes the adopted norm.
Read More »Rebecka Buchanan May 27, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights
It seems unlikely that Sudan will cooperate with the ICC, by waiving Bashir’s immunities and surrendering him to the Court.
Read More »Sarah De Geest May 26, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Uncategorized
We should hope these new challenges in Ukraine and in the south with ISIS will strengthen the alliance once more for the future – a future with a potentially bigger challenge involving the economic and military rise of China.
Read More »Sarah De Geest May 6, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
To truly understand the Chinese we must see them through their eyes instead of our own.
Read More »Sarah De Geest April 11, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Russia and Eurasia
States must stand against those who hijack it, however, by its very nature, R2P is a political tool and tensions exist with the ideological nature of international law.
Read More »Ernesto LaMassa March 28, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, The Americas
The signing of a peace agreement between the State and the FARC will open the door to the transitional road to peace. To complete the transition successfully it will require an ad hoc legal structure that can accommodate the demands of the FARC for demobilizing its members.
Read More »Rebecka Buchanan March 14, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Middle East and North Africa
Due to the structure of the International Court of Justice it is unlikely that any case will be brought before it as both states would need to award the Court jurisdiction over the matter.
Read More »Michelle McKenna February 28, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
With the situation in the Middle East already volatile, the must Prosecutor take this into account when deciding whether to go ahead with an investigation.
Read More »Rebecka Buchanan January 20, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
Almost ten years from the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) referral of the situation in Darfur, in Resolution 1593, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) the humanitarian situation in Darfur remains volatile.
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