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Articles written by Lena Salaymeh

Burning Human Rights Books, Part II: Genocide, Occupation, and Decolonization

Series: The Failure of Human Rights and International Law
Lena Salaymeh
March 19, 2026

What do human rights mean if a state can drop the equivalent of multiple atomic bombs and still claim that the resulting mass civilian deaths were unintentional?

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Burning Human Rights Books, Part I: Modern International Law, War, and Colonialism

Lena Salaymeh
March 17, 2026March 19, 2026

Law does not exist in legal sources, but in the interpretation and application of legal sources.

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