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[Interview] Virginie Rouas: ‘European companies are polluting the Global South without facing full legal consequences'
8 December 2022 By Naomi LamauryAsser Institute researcher Virginie Rouas focuses on the interplay between business and human rights on the one hand, and access to justice, artificial intelligence, and the human rights and environmental impacts of the green transition on the other. She is cu...
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[Sports law] New publication: Remedy and redress for sport-related human rights abuses
7 December 2022In a special issue of the International Sports Law Journal, researcher Daniela Heerdt (Asser Institute and Centre for Sport and Human Rights) and co-author William Rook (Centre for Sport and Human Rights) bring together different perspectives on one of the mos...
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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...