The Weaponisation of Food in Ukraine 

This lecture discussed the prohibition of the use of deliberate starvation, why it has not been prosecuted before, and how the Starvation Mobile Justice Team have been investigating its use in Ukraine and previously in Yemen, Syria, South Sudan and Tigray, Ethiopia.
Speaker: Catriona Murdoch, partner at Global Rights Compliance. With over 15 years' experience in international law, she is an ICL expert, recognised as a world-leading expert in the war crime of starvation, associated starvation violations and right to food abuses.
Discussant: Dr Maria Varaki, Lecturer in International Law, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She is a member of the ILA’s Committee on Human Rights in times of emergency, and has previously worked for the OHCHR in Geneva, the UNHCR in New York and the Legal Advisory section of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.