Reports
Report on the deportation of Ukrainian children
On 30 March 2023, 45 #OSCE participating States, following consultation with #Ukraine, invoked the OSCE’s #MoscowMechanism on the issue of "forcible transfer of #children within parts of Ukraine’s territory temporarily controlled or occupied by #Russia and/or their deportation to the Russian Federation". NAILs Cecilie Hellestveit was selected by Ukraine and the invoking states as one of the experts to work on…
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Report: A UN Tax Convention?
EXPLORING THE MERITS AND FEASIBILITY OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON TAX AND FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY Every year, billions of US dollars in government revenue are lost through corporate tax avoidance, profit shifting, and other tax-related illicit financial flows. This is an issue of transboundary concern, undermining States’ fiscal independence and…
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Commentary
Marine plastic pollution: Why a framework convention with a first protocol on single-use plastics is the right way forward
The resumed session of the fifth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) is right around the corner, and everything is lined up for a decision to start negotiations on a new treaty on marine plastic pollution. The support is overwhelming. More than 180 UN Member States have publicly announced their support for a…
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Report: The merits and feasibility of an international taiga agreement
The taiga is a natural resource of enormous scale, with great value for wildlife and all of humanity. It provides a range of vital ecosystem services at local, national, regional, and global levels. Its role in global carbon sequestration and as a driver of precipitation makes the protection and sustainable…
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Resources
South-Sudan and accountability for atrocities
Hellestveit held a presentation at the Norwegian Academy of Science (in English) about the prospects of holding those responsible for mass atrocities in the civil war in South-Sudan since 2013 to account. The presentation will be published (in Norwegian) in a forthcoming publication by the Norwegian Academy of Science.
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Commentary
Leangkollen Security Conference 2021
At the annual (but digital) Leangkollen Security Conference 2021 organised by The Norwegian Atlantic Committee, Cecilie Hellestveit hosted day 2 on the subject of "Building Resilience to Foreign Influence ". Francis Fukuyama and Thomas Rid gave key note speeches, and Hellestveit interviewed the Norwegian Foreign Minister. The session ended with…
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Commentary
Seminar on starvation as a method of war in Yemen and Syria
NAIL co-organized an international expert seminar together with the Norwegian Centre for Holocaust and Minority-studies (HL-senteret) on December 7. where we examined the return of starvation as a method of war and its effects on vulnerable communities in Yemen and Syria, discussing how deliberate strategies to deprive food have been used in…
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Reports
The TPNW and its implications for Norway
This report explains the contents of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), discusses its compatibility with Norwegian defence arrangements and explores the details of some of the key dilemmas Norwegian policymakers are faced with. (more…)
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Issues
New report: NATO, Norway and nuclear weapons
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was adopted in 2017 and will enter into force in January 2021. The Treaty provides a first-ever unconditional global ban on the use of nuclear arms. Several Norwegian political parties, organisations, and individuals – including six former prime ministers, defence ministers,…
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Events
Oslo Freedom Forum 2020
Hellestveit participated on Oslo Freedom Forum 2020 on a panel concerning human rights violations, corporate responsibility and the supply-chain of the fashion industry, entitled "Uyghur Forced Labor and the Global Fashion Supply Chain".
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Fact-finding mechanisms
Hellestveit has written a chapter on fact-finding mechanisms under international law in the Research Handbook on International Law and Peace (Elgar) edited by Professor Cecilia Baillet. Hellestveit presented the chapter at a book-launch at the Faculty of Law during Oslo Peace Days.
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Synthetic biology and international law in the Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology
Hellestveit has co-authored a chapter on Synthetic biology and the Biological Weapons Convention in the Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology with Filippa Lentzos. The chapter traces recent developments and trends in weaponization of synthetic biology, and assesses whether the categorical ban on biological weapons under international law applies…
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Marine plastic pollution
Every year, millions of tons of plastic waste enter the world’s oceans,[1] the equivalent of dumping one garbage truck of waste every minute. In a business-as-usual scenario, it is estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastics than fish in the ocean.[2] Plastic affects wildlife, contaminates fish stocks, and degrades the…
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The case for a treaty on marine plastic pollution
The call for a new international treaty on marine plastic pollution is growing in strength. Scholars and civil society actors are now calling for a global regulatory framework to be put in place. At the first session of the open-ended ad hoc expert group on marine plastic litter and microplastics,…
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Genocide and non-state perpetrators under international law
Hellestveit made a presentation at an international conference in September 2018 to commemorate The UN Genocide Convention at 70: The Politics of Mass Atrocity Prevention at a session addressing non-state perpetrators of mass-atrocities. Hellestveit's paper, entitled Tribes, Thugs, Terrorists, and the Law: Non-Conventional Armed Violence and the Genocide Convention analyses the particular…
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The TPNW: Setting the record straight
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is steadily attracting new adherents and is likely to enter into force in the next few years. Numerous states, NGOs, and scholars have praised the adoption of the treaty as a welcome addition to the nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime. But…
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Trump publishes report on legal and policy framework for the use of military force
Following the election of Donald Trump in November 2016, the Obama administration rushed to finalize a report on existing legal and policy framework guiding military operations, published in December 2016. The objective was to identify current practices and understandings by the US administration, and force subsequent administrations to identify changes…