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April 5, 2026

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Code of War: How AI Firms Are Rewriting the Rules of War and what that means for International Criminal Law

Efthimia (Mariefaye) Bechrakis, Esq.

On March 26, 2026, a federal judge blocked the Pentagon from branding Anthropic a “supply chain risk.” The ruling does more than grant an early legal victory for Anthropic. It exposes a deeper structural shift in how the boundaries of military power are being negotiated at a moment when contemporary warfare is increasingly mediated by Artificial intelligence.  For International Criminal Law (ICL), this shift raises a more fundamental question: who bears responsibility when the conditions under which force is exercised are shaped, not on the battlefield, but upstream, through privately designed systems?

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February 27, 2026

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Synthetic Abuse, Real Harm: Closing the International Law Gap on AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

By Mariefaye (Efthimia) Bechrakis, Esq.

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Generative AI is often praised for its many transformative benefits across various fields, including that of law and human rights. The dual -use nature of the technology, however, has produced urgent harms, most notably the rapid rise of AI-generated synthetic child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Reports of AI generated images sexualizing children skyrocketed from roughly 4,700 in 2023 to 440,000 in the first half of 2025, while confirmed illegal AI-generated videos jumped from just two to over 1,200 in the same period. According to UNICEF, at least 1.2 million children across 11 countries disclosed having their images manipulated into sexually explicit deepfakes in the past year.

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December 30, 2025

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Beyond Military Responsibility: Corporate and Digital Complicity in the Rohingya Crisis

Deekshita Mathe

Introduction: The Multi-Layered Architecture of Atrocity

The persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar has been widely recognised by the international community as one of the most severe human rights crises of the twenty-first century. Investigations conducted by the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) documented mass killings, forced displacement, widespread sexual violence, and the systematic destruction of Rohingya villages, concluding that there were reasonable grounds to believe that acts amounting to genocide had been committed [1].

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December 29, 2025

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From Power Transition to Humanitarian Catastrophe: The SAF–RSF Conflict and Its Human Rights Implications

Hussin Alameedi

Introduction

In April 2023, Sudan’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) engaged in a war.[1] The war has devasted communities, displaced millions, and exacerbated an already dire humanitarian crisis.[2] Coupled with severe droughts and deadly floods, the effects of conflict and environmental instability are pushing communities to the brink.[3] In some parts of the country famine has already been declared, putting millions of lives at immediate risk.[4] This post explores the root of the armed conflict, the relationship between the ongoing armed conflict in Sudan and human rights violations, and the international community’s response.

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Can a UN Treaty Prevent Human Rights Violations By Transnational Corporations?

Roseline Ogwuche 

Transnational corporations (TNCs) have grown over the years and attained a position of great influence and power.[1] It is argued that their powers compete with those of the state and, in some cases, threaten to strong-arm the state. This growing and unhinged power of transnational corporations has led to gross human rights violations ranging from exploitative labour practices, and environmental pollution, to complicity in repressive governments. TNCs continue to violate human rights with impunity despite many existing instruments and frameworks aimed at addressing the issues of human rights violations by transnational corporations, such as the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nation’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, (UNGP’s), the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and other regional and national human rights instruments.

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