Publications
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Mercenaries & Technology
Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries — call for inputs on mercenaries, PMSCs, and new technologies Examines the intersection of private military and security companies with emerging technologies — autonomous weapons systems, AI-enabled surveillance, cyber operations, and data-driven targeting — arguing that technology procurement and deployment by PMSCs creates accountability gaps that neither IHL…
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Mercenaries & Crime
Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries – call for inputs on mercenaries, PMSCs, and criminal governance Applies the framework of criminal governance — where state institutions and criminalactors are functionally integrated rather than opposed — to the role of mercenaries and PMSCs as structural nodes within illicit resource and coercion economies. Analyses case studies…
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Terrorism & Privacy / Terrorisme & Vie Privée
OHCHR – report on terrorism and human rights (63rd HRC session, September 2026, pursuant to resolution CDH 57/11) Identifies four structural challenges for 2024–2026: proliferation of administrative counter-terrorism measures outside judicial process, weaponisation of broad terrorism definitions against civil society and climate activists, accelerated deployment of surveillance AI (facial recognition, LLMs, metadata analysis) without accountability,…
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Death Penalty / Peine de Mort
Secretary-General – report on the question of the death penalty (63rd session of the Human Rights Council, September 2026) Reviews 2024 execution data (1,518 recorded executions, up 32% on 2023) with analysis of protected persons – minors, women, persons with mental disabilities, and children of condemned parents. Focuses particularly on drug-related executions (637 in 2024,…
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Peasants’ Rights / Territoires
Working Group on the Rights of Peasants – report to the General Assembly on peasantterritorial rights over land and sea (autumn 2026) Analyses the legal concept of peasant territoriality under UNDROP Articles 17and 25, focusing on three normative gaps: absence of mandatory prior consultation mechanisms for large-scale land acquisitions, lack of legal personality for collective…
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Treaty Bodies / Organes de Traités
OHCHR – sixth biennial report on the status of the human rights treaty body system (implementation of GA resolution 68/268) Diagnoses the treaty body system’s resource crisis — 493 reports backlogged, 1,000+ individual communications pending, a projected 6.65 years to clear arrears — as a structural violation of the effet utile of treaty obligations. Evaluates…
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Neurotechnologie & Justice (FR)
OHCHR – Secretary-General’s report on human rights in the administration of justice: neurotechnology and emerging technologies (pursuant to A/RES/79/172) Approaches the same neurotechnology-in-justice questions through the lens of Romano-Germanic legal philosophy – the French doctrine of dignity (décision du Conseil constitutionnel de 1994), the loyauté de la preuve standard under the Code de procédure pénale,…
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Neurotechnology & Justice
OHCHR – Secretary-General’s report on human rights in the administration of justice: neurotechnology and emerging technologies (pursuant to A/RES/79/172) Examines the application of neurotechnology — fMRI lie detection, neuroimaging in sentencing, and algorithmic risk assessment tools – to criminal justice, arguing these threaten cognitive liberty, the privilege against self-incrimination, and the right to a fair…
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SOGI Mongolia
Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity – country visit to Mongolia (18 – 29 May 2026) Analyses the structural gap between Mongolia’s formally progressive SOGI legalframework and documented lived realities. Covers police impunity for anti-LGBT violence, conversion therapy, freedom of assembly restrictions, intersectional vulnerability of rural and ethnic minority LGBT persons, and the…