About the author(s):
Ezequiel Heffes is the Director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict in New York. Prior to joining Watchlist, Ezequiel worked for Geneva Call as a Senior Policy and Legal Advisor and for the ICRC in various operational positions in Colombia, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He holds a PhD from the University of Leiden, an LLM in IHL and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy, and a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires School of Law. He has widely published on different international law issues. Ezequiel is the author of Detention by Non-State Armed Groups under International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the co-editor of International Humanitarian Law and Non-State Actors. Debates, Law and Practice (Springer/Asser Press, 2020).
Happy new year to our readers! We want to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful 2021 and thank you for reading the blog in 2020. Below is a list of the 5 posts that received the most views last year. We hope to have relevant discussions about armed groups and international law this year:
- Katharine Fortin, Podcasts recommendations – legal, non-legal and pure escape (April 2020)
- Tadesse Kebebew & Joshua Niyo, Instant Non-international Armed Conflict? Classifying the situation in Northern Ethiopia under IHL (December 2020)
- ICRC, The legal regime protecting persons living in territory under the control of non-State armed groups (May 2020)
- Elvina Pothelet, Life in rebel territory: is everything war? (May 2020)
- Annyssa Bellal, From cockroaches to rosebuds: changing the international community’s perception of non-State armed groups (May 2020)