Cecilia Pechmeze is invited by EuroCham Myanmar and the Myanmar Center for Responsible Business to share her experience of corporate operations in fragile areas. The event will be part of a webinar series by EuroCham Myanmar and the MCRB, that dives into the topic of Heightened Due Diligence in Myanmar: Guidance for Business. The series aims at highlighting Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence from various angles and at providing guidance to international businesses operating in Myanmar to apply this in the local context.

Offsets, that consist, for an importing country, in imposing that a Government procurement be compensated by the creation of value in the country, are oftentimes suspected of enabling corruption schemes. However, available data do not reflect such reality. While, as all operations, those whose object it is to fulfill offset obligations must indeed account for risks of corruption, the disproportionate amount of attention this risk gathers leads to neglecting others, whose consequences may be potentially as harmful.

Governments, everywhere, have been using foreign Cloud Service Providers, leading to their data sometimes being located abroad. Beyond cyber security considerations, this raises questions regarding the qualification of an operation targeting government data located abroad. Practically, what would be the legal implications of a cyber operation conducted by an operating state A, against a targeted state B’s data located on host state C’s territory? A cyber operation affecting data only would unlikely amount to use of force or armed attack. This short essay thus reflects on the possibility for such an operation to constitute a violation of sovereignty and an intervention only.

Cecilia Pechmeze’s piece on France’s state responsibility for the genocide of the Tutsi population in Rwanda was published in OpinioJuris.

The 13th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2021) kicks off on 26 May 2021, with the theme Going Viral. The event has become an occasion of debate and discussion on an array of themes concerning cyber defence, and gathers members of governments, the private sector and the civil society.

After months of talks and negotiations, member states have elected the British international lawyer to become the next Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court.

The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries issued its annual calls for inputs, revealing the most pressant issues for the international organisation with regards to the issue.