Melanie O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3936637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3571-1016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Melanie O’Brien, Review of Melinda Rankin, De Facto International Prosecutors in a Global Era
s book is an international relations book, not an international law one, but, of course, these two disciplines are so clearly connected that each field has something to offer the other.De Facto International Prosecutors in a Global Era: With My Own Eyes comes across as the words of an international relations specialist who is learning about international law process and, at the same time, teaching those of us in international law about what we do…
Forced Marriage as the Crime Against Humanity of ‘Other Inhumane Acts’ in the International Criminal Court’s Ongwen Case
The Ongwen case, concluded in December 2022 at the International Criminal Court ( icc ), convicted the defendant of a gender-based act that had never been litigated by the icc : forced marriage. This article argues that the judicial consideration of forced marriage in Ongwen has settled the international jurisprudence in three important ways. First, it clarified the classification of forced marriage as an ‘other inhumane act’. Second, it recognis…
Historic feminist intervention at the International Criminal Court—the appeals hearing in Prosecutor v Dominic Ongwen
Australian academics formed part of a feminist collective contributing as amici curiae to the appeal stage of International Criminal Court case Prosecutor v Dominic Ongwen. This comment discusses the significance of these amici curiae interventions
Women’s voices get louder
"There We Are Nothing, Here We Are Nothing!"-The Enduring Effects of the Rohingya Genocide
Debates continue as to whether crimes committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar amount to genocide. This article will address this question, framed in the broad context of the Rohingya victimisation in Myanmar, but also the narrow context of the Rohingya refugee lived experience in Malaysia. The authors contend that the Rohingya are victims of genocide, and this is in part evidenced by the destruction of the Rohingya culture, including through as…
Film Review
In 1960, the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, undertook an operation in Argentina to capture the architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann, and bring him to Israel to stand trial. Operation Finale [Chris Weitz, 2018] tells the story of this intelligence operation: the actions of and challenges for the agents involved, in a way that captures the banality of Eichmann’s personality before it was put on show for the world to see in his tele…
The effect of the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic on multi-level violence against women
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the disproportionate impact of the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic on women, presenting an assessment of how this impact in particular is linked with violence against women and women’s right to health, and a critique of improvements that could avoid discrimination against women in healthcare crises. Design/methodology/approach This paper covers conceptual understan…
Don't kill them, let's choose them as wives
Beyond rape, there are other crimes of sexual violence committed during armed conflicts, mass violence and genocide, including sexual slavery, enforced prostitution and forced marriage. This article explores the development in international criminal justice of these three crimes, comparing differences between the crimes, assessing any definitional overlap, and addressing challenges across jurisdictions. While there has been some development of ju…
Peacekeeper Babies’
In March 2008 the United Nations General assembly adopted Resolution 62/214, which promulgated the ‘Comprehensive Strategy on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by United Nations Staff and Related Personnel’. Although reports on widespread sexual exploitation and sexual abuse emerged in the early 1990s, until 2008 there was no strategy specifically developed to assist women sexually exploited or abused by, and chil…
Linking policing and human rights
The genesis of this special issue of the Australian Journal of Human Rights was an international conference on policing and human rights held in Canberra in 2013. The theme of the three-day conference, hosted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), was hardly original. Fifty years earlier, at the same hotel venue (the Rex Hotel, Canberra), the Commonwealth of Australia hosted the United Nations Sem…
Forgotten Genocides
Protectors on trial? Prosecuting peacekeepers for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court
Prosecutorial Discretion as an Obstacle to Prosecution of United Nations Peacekeepers by the International Criminal Court
United Nations (UN) peacekeepers have been accused of various offences (such as sexual exploitation and abuse, gun smuggling and trading, and gold or diamonds trading), which, under specific circumstances, could be even characterized either as war crimes or, more often, as crimes against humanity. The UN is not able to exercise criminal jurisdiction and in the majority of cases states have been either unable or unwilling to prosecute peacekeepers…
World Bank Institute's Approach to Parliamentary Capacity Strengthening
For approximately 15 years, the World Bank Institute (WBI) has aimed to enhance the capacity of parliaments in their oversight, representation and law-making functions, recognising their essential role to good governance: they are representatives, set priorities, hold the executive accountable and engage directly with the media, civil society and individual citizens. This article outlines WBIs model for strengthening parliamentary capacity global…
Sexual Exploitation and Beyond
Allegations and confirmed cases of misconduct by peacekeeping personnel have been revealed by non-governmental organisations, the press and UN investigations. The majority of misconduct has fallen under the term 'sexual exploitation and abuse'. Sexual exploitation and abuse has encompassed rape, sex with minors, trafficking, prostitution-related conduct, sexual exploitation, and other sexual abuse. This article discusses accountability in interna…
"There We Are Nothing, Here We Are Nothing!"-The Enduring Effects of the Rohingya Genocide
Debates continue as to whether crimes committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar amount to genocide. This article will address this question, framed in the broad context of the Rohingya victimisation in Myanmar, but also the narrow context of the Rohingya refugee lived experience in Malaysia. The authors contend that the Rohingya are victims of genocide, and this is in part evidenced by the destruction of the Rohingya culture, including through as…
Peacekeeper Babies’
In March 2008 the United Nations General assembly adopted Resolution 62/214, which promulgated the ‘Comprehensive Strategy on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by United Nations Staff and Related Personnel’. Although reports on widespread sexual exploitation and sexual abuse emerged in the early 1990s, until 2008 there was no strategy specifically developed to assist women sexually exploited or abused by, and chil…
The effect of the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic on multi-level violence against women
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the disproportionate impact of the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic on women, presenting an assessment of how this impact in particular is linked with violence against women and women’s right to health, and a critique of improvements that could avoid discrimination against women in healthcare crises. Design/methodology/approach This paper covers conceptual understan…
Don't kill them, let's choose them as wives
Beyond rape, there are other crimes of sexual violence committed during armed conflicts, mass violence and genocide, including sexual slavery, enforced prostitution and forced marriage. This article explores the development in international criminal justice of these three crimes, comparing differences between the crimes, assessing any definitional overlap, and addressing challenges across jurisdictions. While there has been some development of ju…
Sexual Exploitation and Beyond
Allegations and confirmed cases of misconduct by peacekeeping personnel have been revealed by non-governmental organisations, the press and UN investigations. The majority of misconduct has fallen under the term 'sexual exploitation and abuse'. Sexual exploitation and abuse has encompassed rape, sex with minors, trafficking, prostitution-related conduct, sexual exploitation, and other sexual abuse. This article discusses accountability in interna…
Protectors on trial? Prosecuting peacekeepers for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court
World Bank Institute's Approach to Parliamentary Capacity Strengthening
For approximately 15 years, the World Bank Institute (WBI) has aimed to enhance the capacity of parliaments in their oversight, representation and law-making functions, recognising their essential role to good governance: they are representatives, set priorities, hold the executive accountable and engage directly with the media, civil society and individual citizens. This article outlines WBIs model for strengthening parliamentary capacity global…
Women’s voices get louder
Prosecutorial Discretion as an Obstacle to Prosecution of United Nations Peacekeepers by the International Criminal Court
United Nations (UN) peacekeepers have been accused of various offences (such as sexual exploitation and abuse, gun smuggling and trading, and gold or diamonds trading), which, under specific circumstances, could be even characterized either as war crimes or, more often, as crimes against humanity. The UN is not able to exercise criminal jurisdiction and in the majority of cases states have been either unable or unwilling to prosecute peacekeepers…
Sexual Exploitation and Beyond
Allegations and confirmed cases of misconduct by peacekeeping personnel have been revealed by non-governmental organisations, the press and UN investigations. The majority of misconduct has fallen under the term 'sexual exploitation and abuse'. Sexual exploitation and abuse has encompassed rape, sex with minors, trafficking, prostitution-related conduct, sexual exploitation, and other sexual abuse. This article discusses accountability in interna…
Protectors on trial? Prosecuting peacekeepers for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court
Prosecutorial Discretion as an Obstacle to Prosecution of United Nations Peacekeepers by the International Criminal Court
United Nations (UN) peacekeepers have been accused of various offences (such as sexual exploitation and abuse, gun smuggling and trading, and gold or diamonds trading), which, under specific circumstances, could be even characterized either as war crimes or, more often, as crimes against humanity. The UN is not able to exercise criminal jurisdiction and in the majority of cases states have been either unable or unwilling to prosecute peacekeepers…
World Bank Institute's Approach to Parliamentary Capacity Strengthening
For approximately 15 years, the World Bank Institute (WBI) has aimed to enhance the capacity of parliaments in their oversight, representation and law-making functions, recognising their essential role to good governance: they are representatives, set priorities, hold the executive accountable and engage directly with the media, civil society and individual citizens. This article outlines WBIs model for strengthening parliamentary capacity global…
Forgotten Genocides
Peacekeeper Babies’
In March 2008 the United Nations General assembly adopted Resolution 62/214, which promulgated the ‘Comprehensive Strategy on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by United Nations Staff and Related Personnel’. Although reports on widespread sexual exploitation and sexual abuse emerged in the early 1990s, until 2008 there was no strategy specifically developed to assist women sexually exploited or abused by, and chil…
Linking policing and human rights
The genesis of this special issue of the Australian Journal of Human Rights was an international conference on policing and human rights held in Canberra in 2013. The theme of the three-day conference, hosted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), was hardly original. Fifty years earlier, at the same hotel venue (the Rex Hotel, Canberra), the Commonwealth of Australia hosted the United Nations Sem…
Don't kill them, let's choose them as wives
Beyond rape, there are other crimes of sexual violence committed during armed conflicts, mass violence and genocide, including sexual slavery, enforced prostitution and forced marriage. This article explores the development in international criminal justice of these three crimes, comparing differences between the crimes, assessing any definitional overlap, and addressing challenges across jurisdictions. While there has been some development of ju…
The effect of the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic on multi-level violence against women
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the disproportionate impact of the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic on women, presenting an assessment of how this impact in particular is linked with violence against women and women’s right to health, and a critique of improvements that could avoid discrimination against women in healthcare crises. Design/methodology/approach This paper covers conceptual understan…
Film Review
In 1960, the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, undertook an operation in Argentina to capture the architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann, and bring him to Israel to stand trial. Operation Finale [Chris Weitz, 2018] tells the story of this intelligence operation: the actions of and challenges for the agents involved, in a way that captures the banality of Eichmann’s personality before it was put on show for the world to see in his tele…
Women’s voices get louder
"There We Are Nothing, Here We Are Nothing!"-The Enduring Effects of the Rohingya Genocide
Debates continue as to whether crimes committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar amount to genocide. This article will address this question, framed in the broad context of the Rohingya victimisation in Myanmar, but also the narrow context of the Rohingya refugee lived experience in Malaysia. The authors contend that the Rohingya are victims of genocide, and this is in part evidenced by the destruction of the Rohingya culture, including through as…
Historic feminist intervention at the International Criminal Court—the appeals hearing in Prosecutor v Dominic Ongwen
Australian academics formed part of a feminist collective contributing as amici curiae to the appeal stage of International Criminal Court case Prosecutor v Dominic Ongwen. This comment discusses the significance of these amici curiae interventions
Forced Marriage as the Crime Against Humanity of ‘Other Inhumane Acts’ in the International Criminal Court’s Ongwen Case
The Ongwen case, concluded in December 2022 at the International Criminal Court ( icc ), convicted the defendant of a gender-based act that had never been litigated by the icc : forced marriage. This article argues that the judicial consideration of forced marriage in Ongwen has settled the international jurisprudence in three important ways. First, it clarified the classification of forced marriage as an ‘other inhumane act’. Second, it recognis…
Melanie O’Brien, Review of Melinda Rankin, De Facto International Prosecutors in a Global Era
s book is an international relations book, not an international law one, but, of course, these two disciplines are so clearly connected that each field has something to offer the other.De Facto International Prosecutors in a Global Era: With My Own Eyes comes across as the words of an international relations specialist who is learning about international law process and, at the same time, teaching those of us in international law about what we do…
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · International Law and Human Rights (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Criminal court (5 works) · Human rights (5 works)