Yearbook of International Disaster Law

Giulio Bartolini, Department of Law, Roma Tre University. Full professor of international law, lecturer of “International Disaster Law” at the Geneva Academy of IHL and HRL and Director of courses on “International Disaster Law” in cooperation with the IFRC and the Sanremo International Institute of Humanitarian Law. Marie Aronsson-Storrier, (Ph.D.) School of Law, University College Cork. Marie has published widely on international law and disasters, with a particular focus on the creation and reduction of disaster risk (The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction and International Law, CUP, 2019; Defining Disaster: Disciplines and Domains, Edward Elgar, 2022). Dug Cubie, School of Law, University College Cork. Building on over 10 years’ practice in humanitarian action, Dug has written widely on disaster law, climate migration and the law of humanitarian assistance (The International Legal Protection of Persons in Humanitarian Crises, Hart, 2017). Emanuele Sommario, Institute of Law and Politics (DIRPOLIS), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. Associate Professor of International Law and Jean Monnet Chair in “European and International Human Rights Standards in Conflicts and Disasters”. Emanuele is also a consultant and lecturer for the EU Civil Protection Mechanism’s training activities. Anastasia Telesetsky, J.D., Professor at Cal Poly, former chair of American Society of International Law’s Disaster Law Interest Group with a research focus on environmental disaster risk reduction (International Law of Disaster Relief, Cambridge, 2014).

Editorial Issue No. 5 (2022)



Thematic Section: Human Rights and Disasters



YIDL Dialogues with Practitioners #2: Dr Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

 A Dialogue with Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Emanuele Sommario



Trafficking in Persons in the Context of Climate-related Disasters and Displacement: A Failure of Protection and Prevention

 Siobhán Mullally and Keelin Barry



Lessons From COVID-19 with Respect to the Positive Obligations of States to Protect Older Persons in the Event of Disasters

 Susan Breau



Emergencies in the Inter-American Human Rights System: the Example of Ecuador in Times of COVID-19

 Christina Binder



A Human Rights-Based Approach to Disaster Risk Management in Greenland: Displacement, Relocation, and the Legacies of Colonialism

 Miriam Cullen, Benedicte Sofie Holm, and Céline Brassart-Olsen



The Prevention of Disasters Related to Natural Hazards in the Practice of Human Rights Courts and Treaty Bodies: Towards a DRR Approach

 Federica Passarini



Sexual and Gender Minorities and the Right to Non-Discrimination: A Shortfall of Disaster Risk Reduction?

 Holly A. Seglah and Kevin Blanchard



Exploring the Role of the National Human Rights Commission in Climate-Induced Disaster Displacement in India: Lessons from Sri Lanka and the Philippines

 Stellina Jolly and Chhaya Bhardwaj



Human Rights Restrictions Prompted by the COVID-19 Pandemic: Uncertainties and Differences in the Practice of ECHR Parties

 Kumush Suyunova



General Section



Legal Form and Competing Framings of Cross-Border Disaster Displacement in the Context of Climate Change

 Tuomas Palosaari



The Impact of the COVID-19 on Contested Territorial Entities of Eastern Europe. Between Isolation and Cooperation

 Natalia Cwicinskaja



International Disaster Law in Honduras: The Role of the Red Cross and IFRC in Integrating International Guidelines into the Domestic Legal System

 Rebeca Isabel Muñoz Arosemena



International Disaster Law in Practice



Developments within the UN System (2022)

 Emanuele Sommario



UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2022)

 Marie Aronsson-Storrier



Non-State Humanitarian Actors (2022)

 Tommaso Natoli



Asia (2022)

 Emika Tokunaga



Africa and MENA Regions (2022)

 Nicholas Wasonga Orago



Europe (2022)

 Federico Casolari



North and Central America (2022)

 Andrew R. Slaten



Caribbean (2022)

 Carlon Mendoza



South America (2022)

 Hugo Cahueñas



Pacific (2022)

 Silke Clausing and W. John Hopkins



Polar Regions (2022)

 Stefan Kirchner



Climate Change Law (2022)

 Rosemary Lyster



International Human Rights Law (2022)

 Marlies Hesselman



Regional Human Rights Bodies (2022)

 Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani



International Cultural Heritage Law (2022)

 Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani



International Economic Law (2022)

 Carlo de Stefano



South Sudan (2021–2022)

 Stella Ngugi



Sources of IDL: Focus on General Principles of Law

 Dug Cubie



International Environmental Law (2022)

 Sophie Gambardella



International Health Law (2022)

 Stefania Negri



Law of the Sea (2022)

 Anastasia Telesetsky



Law and Human Mobility (2022)

 Matthew Scott



Space Law (2022)

 Diego Zannoni



Review of Books

 Edited by Tommaso Natoli

Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Rasmus Dahlberg (eds), Defining Disaster – Disciplines and Domains

 Karen da Costa

Jonathan Verschuuren (ed.), Research Handbook on Climate Change Adaptation Law

 Tommaso Natoli

Andrea de Guttry, Micaela Frulli, Federico Casolari, Ludovica Poli (eds.), International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) Events – Towards an All-Hazards Approach

 Daniel Rietiker

Bibliographical Index of International Disaster Law (2022)

 Edited by Giulio Bartolini

Index