REVUE : "Organized Crime", International Review of the Red Cross (vol. 105, n°923, August 2023)

Bruno DEMEYERE

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (vol. 105, n°923, August 2023) is dedicated to the theme "Organized Crime".

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Robert Muggah, Organized crime in armed conflicts and other situations of violence

SPECIAL FEATURE

Speech by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross

TESTIMONIES

Hidden stories: survivors of organized crime

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Sophie Orr

Interview with Ghada Whaly

ARTICLES 

Setting the Scene

Pablo Kalmanovitz, Can criminal organizations be non-state parties to armed conflict?
Mark Freeman, Mariana Casij Peña, Negotiating with organized crime groups: questions of law, policy and imagination
Chiara Redaelli Carlos Arévalo, Targeting drug lords: challenges to IHL between lege lata and lege ferenda

Crimes in Focus

Thomas Martial, Harvesting vulnerability: the challenges of organ trafficking in armed conflict
Mara Tignino, The regulation of crimes against water in armed conflicts and other situations of violence

Countries in Focus

Tosin Osasona, The question of definition: armed banditry in Nigeria’s North-West in the context of IHL
Sally Longworth, Symbiosis in violence: A case study from Sierra Leone of the IHL implications of parties to the conflict engaging in organized crime
Juan Francisco Padin, Opening Pandora’s box: the case of Mexico and the threshold of non-international armed conflict
Najla Nassif Palma, Is Rio de Janeiro preparing for war? Combatting organized crime or engaging in a non-international armed conflict?
Antoine Perret, Militarization and privatization of security: from the War on Drugs to the fight against organized crime in Latin America
John P. Sullivan, Crime wars: operational perspectives on criminal armed groups in Mexico and Brazil

LIBRARIAN’S PICK

Charlotte Mohr, Intersections in cultural heritage law, edited by Anne-Marie Carstens and Elizabeth Varner

SELECTED ARTICLES

Saeed Bagheri, The Legal Limits to the Destruction of Natural Resources in Non-International Armed Conflicts: Applying International Humanitarian Law
Pascal Daudin, The Rif War: A Forgotten War
George Dvaladze, Unveiling claims of discrimination based on nationality in the context of occupation under international humanitarian and human rights law
Kubo Mačák, Will the centre hold?: Countering the erosion of the principle of distinction on the digital battlefield
Carrie McDougall, The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry Report and the Applicability of Additional Protocol II to Intervening Foreign Forces
Theodor Meron, The bystander, the Good Samaritan and the Just in the Holocaust and IHL
Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Rethinking direct participation in hostilities and continuous combat function in light of targeting members of terrorist non-state armed groups
Anjli Parrin, “How did they die?”: bridging humanitarian and criminal-justice objectives in forensic science to advance the rights of families of the missing under international humanitarian law
Romina Edith Pezzot, IHL in the era of climate change: the extra-territorial application of the UN climate change regime to belligerent occupations
Rebecca Sutton, Emiliano J. Buis, Humanitarianism and affect-based education: emotional experiences at the Jean-Pictet Competition
Arthur van Coller, Detonating the air: the legality of the use of thermobaric weapons under IHL

BEYOND THE LITERATURE

The rights to privacy and data protection in times of armed conflict, edited by Russell Buchan and Asaf Lubin

REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS

ICRC documents on organized crime and armed conflict
ICRC report on Detention by Non-State Armed Groups: Obligations Under International Humanitarian Law and Examples of How to Implement Them