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[Podcast]: ‘Ukrainian war crimes trials with Ukrainian judges’
5 December 2022Leaving the court every time the alarm goes off and working around power cuts that have halved working days to four hours. These are some of the working conditions of judges in Ukraine. The potential war crimes cases being investigated now amount to 36.000. Ho...
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[Research publication] Retaining human responsibility in the development and use of autonomous weapon systems
24 November 2022In a report for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Marta Bo with Laura Bruun and Vincent Boulanin tackle how humans can be held responsible for violations of international humanitarian law involving autonomous weapons systems. As t...
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[Research publication] How Qatar’s migrant workers became FIFA’s problem: a transnational struggle for responsibility
18 November 2022Senior researcher and head of the Asser Institute’s International Sports Law Centre Antoine Duval highlights the global struggle to force the football organisation FIFA to take responsibility for labour rights abuses suffered by migrant workers in Qatar. In an...
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[Conference] Strengthening Ukraine’s national efforts to investigate, prosecute, adjudicate and report on international crimes
11 November 2022On Monday 14 November, the Asser Institute and Global Rights Compliance (GRC) co-organised the conference ‘Strengthening Ukraine’s national efforts to investigate, prosecute, adjudicate and report on international crimes’. The conference - which was fully book...
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[New project] The potential of big data technologies for the due diligence process
7 November 2022Last month, the Asser Institute began a new project to investigate the potential of big data technologies in the context of the due diligence process for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Human rights and environmental du...