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Cornell International Law Journal Online
Fake News in International Conflicts: A Humanitarian Crisis in the Post-Truth Era, Vol. 55
Fu Kwong-or Ricky
Introduction “World War III is coming,” is it ‘fake news’? On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, or “special military operation,” three days after Russia officially recognized the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic. Shortly after the whole world witnessed the largest military conflict in Europe since World War…
Jul 2022
Cornell International Law Journal Online
When International Disasters Affect Technology Transfer: Where is International Law?, Vol. 55
Federica Cristani
Natural disasters may have devastating impacts on human life, the economy, and environment of the affected states. This article focuses on the economic consequences of natural disasters for affected states, particularly regarding technology transfers. In addition, this article examines the relevant regulatory framework of reference at the international level, with a mapping of technology transfer…
May 2022
Cornell International Law Journal Online
New Forum Article
Federica Cristani
When International Disasters Affect Technology Transfer: Where is International Law?
Mar 2022
Human Mobility and Human Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Revisiting the 14 Principles of Protection for Migrants, Refugees, and Other Displaced Persons, Vol. 54
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Joanne Csete, Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Ian M. Kysel, Petra Molnar, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Monette Zard
Building upon the 14 Principles – which set out how international law should protect migrants, refugees, and other displaced persons during the COVID-19 pandemic and have been endorsed by more than 1,000 scholars worldwide – a group of international law scholars have collaborated to create a series of short essays looking at a set of pressing legal…
Oct 2021
The Right to Health, Vol. 54
Joanne Csete
Among the “14 Principles” for protection of migrants, refugees and displaced persons in the COVID-19 pandemic is that all persons have a right to health, which, in essence, means an equal right to basic health services. In more than a year of COVID-19 challenges, it has become clear that migrants, refugees and displaced persons are…
Oct 2021
Implementing Principle 2: The Legal Framework vs. the Reality, Vol. 54
Iain Byrne
The international legal framework mandates that everybody, including all people on the move, should enjoy their right to health without discrimination. However, the reality for refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants during the last 12 months of the pandemic has been very different. This is explored below through discussion of the lived experience of millions…
Oct 2021
COVID-19, Surveillance, and the Border Industrial Complex, Vol. 54
Petra Molnar
Technological experimentation at the border is being given free rein, knit together into what amounts to a tapestry of an increasingly powerful global border industrial complex. This experimentation legitimizes techno-solutionism at the expense of human rights and dignity and has only been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Powerful actors—often in the private sector—increasingly dictate what…
Oct 2021
Refugees and the Scope for Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination, Vol. 54
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Vaccination programs are regularly celebrated as one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions ever developed. Yet, in a global context characterized by an acute lack of vaccines coupled with unfair distribution, COVID-19 vaccination schemes are controversial. Inaccurate and misleading stories about the vaccines risk becoming a “second pandemic.” However, long before COVID-19,…
Oct 2021
Concluding Comments: Revisiting the Principles of Protection for Migrants, Refugees and Other Displaced Persons, One Year On, Vol. 54
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Within the context of the 14 Principles and to conclude this symposium, I provide a few reflections below on the greatest human rights challenges faced by migrants, refugees, and the displaced in the last year. As expected, things have gotten worse, and it will take time to re-establish—or even to establish for the first time—protection…
Oct 2021
Concluding Comments: (A) Few Promising Avenues for Promoting the Rights of Migrants in the Post-Pandemic, Vol. 54
Ian M. Kysel
More than eighteen months on, the COVID-19 pandemic may have unraveled the idea of human mobility—at least through regular channels—as an inexorable constant of life in the twenty-first century. Thankfully, it has nonetheless made it dramatically clear that the world’s hundreds of millions of migrants are essential members of our communities, particularly as the health…
Oct 2021