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Blog Special – XI: The Perils of UN Peacekeeping Amidst Weapons of War: A Challenge for International Law

Sep 1814 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...

BLOG SPECIAL – X: The Geneva Conventions @75: Use of Weapons of War and Audacity for Humanizing Warfare

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Aug 2015 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 passed almost...

Blog Special: India needs to invigorate its Climate Diplomacy

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Jul 254 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...

Blog Special- II : The Sleepwalking into a Planetary Crisis: Invoking International Law

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Mar 29, 20235 min read

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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...

Blog Special - I : The Sleepwalking into a Planetary Crisis: Invoking International law

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Mar 29, 20235 min read

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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...

The Reagan-Thatcher Revolution and its impact on International Politics

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Mar 13, 20234 min read

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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...

Blog Special – VII: Rape under Orders as a Weapon of War: A Challenge for International Law

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Mar 11, 20235 min read

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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...

On the UN Resolution calling for a ban on ASAT Missile Tests

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Jan 26, 20236 min read

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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...

Role of the UN and the International Legal Dimensions of Russia Ukraine Crisis

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Oct 7, 20225 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...

Arms Trade Treaty at risk of irrelevance

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Sep 1, 20224 min read

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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...

Part - III: Abused Ammunition as a Weapon of War in the DR Congo: A Challenge for International Law

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Aug 6, 20225 min read

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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...

Black Sea Grain Agreement: A Beacon of Hope for the World

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Jul 30, 20225 min read

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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...

The Repurposed UN Trusteeship Council for the Future: PART – I: The Context and the Idea

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Jul 24, 20226 min read

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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...

Blog Special Series-II: Use of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War: A Challenge for International Law

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Jun 22, 20226 min read

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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...

Blog Exclusive: Stockholm+50 and Beyond: Envisioning Our Environmental Future

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Jun 7, 20225 min read

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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...

China's Uighur Camps: Why Is a UN Visit Being Criticised for 'Soft Position'?

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Jun 2, 20224 min read

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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...

Blog Special Series-I: Use of Food as a Weapon of War: A Challenge for International Law

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May 28, 20225 min read

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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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