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Singapore’s mixed response to COVID-19 : migrant workers sidelined Ghent University
Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been mixed. Initially seen as one of the better examples of managing the pandemic early on with efficiency and decisiveness, that reputation has now been marred with her handling of the country’s migrant population. Once deemed the “gold standard of near-perfect detection” by Harvard epidemiologists, initial praise for the country’s efforts at containing the virus have unfortunately not reached ...
Conceptualising humanitarian civil-military partnerships in the Asia-Pacific : (re-)ordering cooperation Ghent University
The Asia-Pacific is a dynamic region that is exposed to multiple natural hazards. This article explores how recent developments have influenced the relationship between civilian and military actors in the Asia-Pacific to facilitate an improvement in humanitarian civil-military coordination to assist and protect disaster-affected communities. It investigates civilian and military engagement in disaster preparedness and response activities in the ...
Rights, reparations, and legal rituals : victims at the ECCC Ghent University
Did the ICC fail child victims in the Lubanga reparations order? Ghent University
In 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for enlisting, conscripting and using child soldiers during the Ituri conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Two and a half years later, the Appeals Chamber of the Court issued an amended reparations order against Lubanga. This paper seeks to examine whether the amended order for reparations and the draft implementation plan for reparations in the Lubanga ...
ASEAN failure to implement the customary international law principle of non-refoulement during the 2015 boat crisis Ghent University
Since 2014, more than an estimated 80,000 Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi migrants have crossed the Andaman Sea through human trafficking networks, with no regional mechanism in place to cope with the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s reaction to the crisis in 2015 betrayed its inaccurate framing of the issue as one of human trafficking in support of unlawful migration attempts, when its member ...