About the author(s):
Katharine Fortin is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches IHL and IHRL. Before joining Utrecht University, she worked at the ICTY, ICC and Norton Rose Fulbright. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Lieber Prize. She has written widely about the framework of law that applies to armed groups in non-international armed conflicts and is one of the editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog.
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Syria’s Kurds march on to Raqqa and the sea.
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Central African Republic: armed groups target civilians.
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Prison sentence for academic in separatist region of Ukraine.
Crisis Group Report: Managing Turkey’s PKK conflict: the case of Nusaybin.
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