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When climate change and human rights meet: A brief comment on the UN Human Rights Committee’s Teitiota decision

‘There are realities where extreme events surpass the ability to adapt and displacement and migration are the only avenues for survival.’ Mary Robinson   1. Introduction Global warming has become a significant threat to human life. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the evidence of transformations in the climate system is now...

Applying the Jus in Bello in the Cyber Domain: Navigating between lex lata and lex ferenda

In the 1983 movie War Games, the leading character is a young hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict the possible outcomes of nuclear war, and then proceeds to start his favourite game: Global Thermonuclear War. What we know, but the computer geek does not, is that the US military,...