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BLOG SPECIAL: On the Global State of Women’s Rights: 50 Years of IWD and 30 Years of the Beijing Declaration
By Prof. Dr. Bharat H. Desai  I. INTRODUCTION  March 08, 2025, the 50th anniversary of the UN’s International Women’s Day (IWD), also...
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Mar 175 min read
Blog Special – XI: The Perils of UN Peacekeeping Amidst Weapons of War: A Challenge for International Law
By Prof. Dr. Bharat H. Desai On September 9, 2024, the United Nations (UN) Security Council (SC), under Slovenia Presidency, held an open...
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Sep 18, 202414 min read
BLOG SPECIAL – X: The Geneva Conventions @75: Use of Weapons of War and Audacity for Humanizing Warfare
By Prof. (Dr.) Bharat H. Desai On August 12, 2024, the historic 75 years milestone of the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 Â passed almost...
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Aug 20, 202415 min read
Blog Special: India needs to invigorate its Climate Diplomacy
By Prof. Sameena Hameed As the sense of urgency is gripping the world in the face of climate change and environmental degradation, it’s...
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Jul 25, 20244 min read
Blog Special- II : The Sleepwalking into a Planetary Crisis: Invoking International Law
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai In order to set in motion a concerted global response to the impending planetary crisis, the UNGA could at the...
SIS Blog
Mar 29, 20235 min read
Blog Special - I : The Sleepwalking into a Planetary Crisis: Invoking International law
Prof. Bharat H. Desai In 2022, the world witnessed the 50 years of the global environmental movement at the Stockholm+50 Conference (June...
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Mar 29, 20235 min read
The Reagan-Thatcher Revolution and its impact on International Politics
By Prithvi Naresh Rathod The era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher is often referred to as the ‘Reagan-Thatcher Revolution’. This...
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Mar 13, 20234 min read
Blog Special – VII: Rape under Orders as a Weapon of War: A Challenge for International Law
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai On March 8, 2023, in a symbolic justice, the Committee of the 1979 Convention on Elimination of Discrimination...
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Mar 11, 20235 min read
On the UN Resolution calling for a ban on ASAT Missile Tests
By Ankit Tiwari The US and the USSR were directing huge resources towards R&D in Outer Space capabilities in order to gain a strategic...
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Jan 26, 20236 min read
Role of the UN and the International Legal Dimensions of Russia Ukraine Crisis
By Pratik Mall The ongoing Ukraine crisis has fueled the raging and perennial debate about the relevance of the UN The Russia-Ukraine...
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Oct 7, 20225 min read
Arms Trade Treaty at risk of irrelevance
By Prof. Swaran Singh Membership of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is on the up: 111 countries have ratified the agreement...
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Sep 1, 20224 min read
Part - III: Abused Ammunition as a Weapon of War in the DR Congo: A Challenge for International Law
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai The troubling reality is that the abundance of our natural resources – gold, coltan, cobalt and other strategic...
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Aug 6, 20225 min read
Black Sea Grain Agreement: A Beacon of Hope for the World
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai The use of food as a weapon to starve people presents a global challenge. Such aggressive methods of warfare...
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Jul 30, 20225 min read
The Repurposed UN Trusteeship Council for the Future: PART – I: The Context and the Idea
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai In view of constraints of the SIS Blog space, this article will appear in Part – I and Part – II. On 15 July...
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Jul 24, 20226 min read
Blog Special Series-II: Use of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War: A Challenge for International Law
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai Sexual violence against women during conflicts has been used as a tactic and weapon of war. It is not just rape...
SIS Blog
Jun 22, 20226 min read
Blog Exclusive: Stockholm+50 and Beyond: Envisioning Our Environmental Future
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai The Stockholm 2022 at best remained a timid acknowledgement of things going terribly wrong and lacked the...
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Jun 7, 20225 min read
China's Uighur Camps: Why Is a UN Visit Being Criticised for 'Soft Position'?
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli While Bachelet criticised China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang, critics pointed to her 'controlled...
SIS Blog
Jun 2, 20224 min read
Blog Special Series-I: Use of Food as a Weapon of War: A Challenge for International Law
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai In the third decade of the 21st century, the growing use of food as a weapon to starve civilians and others...
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May 28, 20225 min read
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