Introduction: The long-awaited change in the making Following in the footsteps of most recent calls by African legal scholars, in this blog I share my own reflections on what should…
Author: Daniel Mekonnen
Dr. Daniel Mekonnen is a Geneva-based Independent Consultant and Researcher, working mainly in International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and International Refugee Law (IRL). Among other things, he sits at the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Oxford University Press) and the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), hosted at the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University (Canada). He divides his professional time between Switzerland and East Africa.
The Dawn of a New Era for Reparatory Justice? On 25 March 2026, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic Declaration, designating the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime…