NQHR December 2022
| Author | Katharine Fortin,Elmin Omičević |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/09240519221132485 |
| Published date | 01 December 2022 |
| Date | 01 December 2022 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
NQHR December 2022
We are happy to introduce the December 2022 edition of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human
Rights. This is the first edition that has gone to print with Katharine as the journal’s new Editor
in Chief. Katharine is an Associate Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights,
Utrecht University, where she teaches international humanitarian law and human rights law. She
has written widely on human rights and armed conflict, international humanitarian law,
non-State actors, armed groups and legal identity. She has been a member of the Executive
Editorial Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights for the past five years and is very
much looking forward to her new role as Editor in Chief.
This issue starts with a column by Katharine Fortin, who reflects on the relationship between
international humanitarian law and human rights law in situations of armed conflict.
Conducting a review of the key developments over the last 45 years, she comments some devel-
opments that seem to be threatening hard-won progress on key issues. The issue further con-
tains three articles. In their article ‘The More the Better? The Complementarity of United
Nations Institutions in the Fight Against Torture’, Valentina Carraro considers the extent to
which the United Nations Universal Periodic Review system complements, duplicates or
even contradicts the work of the United Nations treaty bodies, by focusing on the prohibition
of torture. Nikolaos Papadopoulos, in their article ‘Strategic Litigation Before the European
Committee of Social Rights: Fit for Purpose?’then examines the structural element of the
Collective Complaints Procedure of the European Social Charter, which allows NGOs and
trade unions to apply directly before the European Committee of Social Rights for decisions
on potential non-implementation in the countries concerned. Asking whether the committee
is fit for purpose, they consider whether the Committee provides a reliable platform that
enables the participation of organisations and vulnerable groups to deliberate on social
policy issues and put serious socio-economic concerns on the governments’agenda and to
public debate. Finally, in their article ‘A Human Rights-Based, Regime Interaction
Approach to Climate Change and Malnutrition: Reforming Food Systems for Human and
Planetary Health’Rosalind Turkie takes a human rights-based approach to climate change
and malnutrition. Addressing what has been dubbed ‘The Global Syndemic’(coexisting epi-
demics of undernutrition, obesity, and climate change), they argue that international human
rights law holds potential to provide an important foundation for a response that places
human health above the profit-driven motives of the food industry.
This issue also presents the SIM Peter Beahr lecture which was given by Mpanzu Bamenga in
October 2022. As a lawyer, diplomat, activist, and public representative, Mpanzu Bamenga is well
known for promoting human rights, diversity, inclusion, and opportunities for refugees and
migrants in the Netherlands. In 2020, Bamenga, together with others, sued the Dutch State for
ethnic profiling. In 2021, he was awarded, by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights
(College voor de Rechten van de Mens), the prize of Human Rights Person of the Year 2021 for
Editorial
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
2022, Vol. 40(4) 341–342
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