Joshua Joseph NIYO
@jniyo
Regional Legal Adviser, Global Desk | East and Central Africa,
International Humanitarian Law Centre,
Diakonia.
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Unsure who we are? The #BeyondCompliance Consortium is an academic-practitioner, co-productive research partnership composed of 9 academic, human rights & humanitarian orgs. We are undertaking research - funded by FCDO Research, Science and Technology - for the promotion of restraint by armed actors. 👇
Meet Joshua Joseph NIYO the Regional Legal Adviser for East ¢ral Africa at IHL Centre leading “Use of Force in Law Enforcement & Conduct of Hostilities” for our IHL Course & “Humanitarian Principles & the Right for Humanitarian Assistance” for the course on Humanitarian Action in Africa
Great to hear my wonderful colleague Joshua Joseph NIYO on Focus on Africa for BBC News Africa providing a detailed legal explainer in regard to concerns over genocide in Sudan. Listen from 2.00 to 10.30 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…
📢Final weekend of Our Short Courses! Joshua Joseph NIYO from the IHL Centre is leading the "Humanitarian Principles and the Right to Humanitarian Assistance" module for our Advanced Course. While, Vanessa Vuille is leading the "Jus ad Bellum and the Law of Neutrality" for our #IHL course.
Along with Joshua Joseph NIYO of IHL Centre, we had a productive meeting with Daniel Bekele & Albab Tesfaye, of Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) - ኢሰመኮ, to promote IHL and HRL in Ethiopia. AAU IHL Clinic alongside IHL Centre, looks forward to advancing #IHL and #IHRL in Ethiopia.
Honored to have led this training in Tigray as part of our work IHL Centre, collaborat'n with UNHCR East, Horn of Africa and Great Lakes, UN Human Rights EARO, & Ethiopia Protect'n Cluster. Grateful for active engagement of participants on IHL & IHRL in humanitarian contexts. Excited to continue this vital work!
The #impact of #war is broader, structural, enduring, & more extensive than is usually anticipated at the onset of military operations. Joshua Joseph NIYO asks in the #BeyondComplianceSymposium whether #IHL is suited to address systemic effects of #armedhostilities. lieber.westpoint.edu/systemic-impac…
Blog post! Joshua Joseph NIYO highlights the systemic impacts of protracted #ArmedConflicts often overlooked by narrow conceptualisations of #CivilianHarm & calls for a paradigm shift to acknowledge the broader systemic impacts of #war within #IHL norms 👇👇 Read at: bit.ly/3TtrzTW
🔊Check out Joshua Joseph NIYO's piece today (IHL Centre), published by Articles of War in the context of our Symposium on Compliance in Armed Conflict Beyond Compliance Consortium 👇👇👇
Excited to share my latest piece for the #BeyondComplianceSymposium on Articles of War "Systemic Impacts of War in Protracted Conflicts" explores how conflicts affect civilians far beyond immediate harm lieber.westpoint.edu/systemic-impac…
Grateful to our EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺 EU Humanitarian Aid | Central East Southern Africa colleagues for their time and engagement in discussing the evolving situation in eastern #DRC. With civilians bearing the brunt of the hostilities, rigorous adherence to #IHL is imperative to ensure the protection of those most affected
In conversation with BBC World Service on allegat'ns of banned weapons in Nasir, Upper Nile State #SouthSudan. IHL Centre, we work to equip humanitarian actors across East & Central Africa to respond in such crises & strengthen protect'n of civilians under IHL. #CivilianProtection
The IHL Centre is today attending the first Nordic symposium on the law of armed conflict, hosted by the Swedish Defence University (Försvarshögskolan) and organised jointly with the Swedish Red Cross (Svenska Röda Korset) #IHL