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Kosovo ante portas? – EJIL: Speak! – VR Hub

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Since declaring independence in 2008, Kosovo has made the popularity of its statehood and the associated concern of its membership in worldwide organizations a precedence of its overseas coverage. After the Parliamentary Meeting of the Council of Europe advisable on 16 April 2024, by 131 votes in favour, 29 in opposition to and 11 abstentions, that Kosovo be invited to turn out to be a member of the Council of Europe, a closing resolution on this would possibly quickly be taken by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe even when it appears that evidently some member States of the Council of Europe France have requested the postponement of the choice on the admission of Kosovo within the group.

Any closing resolution on the query of admission should in any occasion be made by a 2/3 majority of the governments of the by now 46 member States of the Council of Europe represented within the Committee of Ministers. From the standpoint of the Parliamentary Meeting, one, if not the primary goal of such an admission to the organisation is that every one individuals beneath the jurisdiction of Kosovo ought to have entry to the European Courtroom of Human Rights.

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Flag State duty in worldwide human rights legislation for people on board personal vessels – EJIL: Speak! – VR Hub

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Introduction

On 10 April 2024, the EU Parliament adopted new guidelines strengthening responsibility-sharing amongst member States in respect of administration of migratory flows. The brand new Migration and Asylum Pact is the end result of years of political negotiations, together with within the gentle of the advanced state of affairs within the Mediterranean Sea. Nevertheless, as we clarify under, the precept of responsibility-sharing has a foundation in worldwide human rights legislation, too.

On this publish, we give attention to the duty of flag States pursuant to worldwide human rights legislation in respect of people rescued on the excessive seas by personal vessels flying their flag.

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In This Situation – EJIL: Discuss! – VR Hub

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This difficulty opens with a Foreword by the late Karen Knop. In 2020, the EJIL Editors-in-Chief invited Professor Knop to jot down an EJIL Foreword, an annual characteristic within the Journal designed to offer a distinguished creator the house to discover the ‘state of the sector’ in a selected space of worldwide regulation. Professor Karen Knop, holder of the Cecil A. Wright Chair on the College of Toronto, was such a distinguished creator. She wrote ground-breaking books and articles on self-determination, feminism and worldwide regulation, cities in worldwide regulation and overseas relations regulation. In EJIL, she revealed ‘Eunomia is a Lady: Philip Allott and Feminism’ and ‘Lorimer’s Non-public Residents of the World’. She was an amazing instructor and enabler of others’ work. 

Karen enthusiastically accepted our invitation to jot down the 2024 Foreword, indicating that she would write on ‘populism, empire and the rise of overseas relations regulation/implications for worldwide regulation’.

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Measuring Compliance and the Choices of UNCLOS Dispute Settlement Our bodies – EJIL: Speak! – VR Hub

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What occurs after a global court docket or tribunal fingers down its judgment? Sir Robert Jennings as soon as famous the irony in how detailed the enterprise of worldwide courts and tribunals is as much as and together with the rendering of a judgment, and the way little we find out about what follows. It’s … Read more

Creating jurisprudence and the suitable to reparations – EJIL: Speak! – VR Hub

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Final December, the Appeals Panel on the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) delivered its judgment in its first conflict crimes prosecution. Salih Mustafa, a particular unit (BIA) commander within the Kosovo Liberation Military through the Kosovo conflict had been convicted for the conflict crimes of homicide, torture and arbitrary detention. He’s now dealing with 22 years … Read more

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