Annyssa Bellal

Annyssa Bellal is a Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International law and Human Rights who has acted as legal adviser for the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs within the Directorate of Pub

A human right to resist

We need the international community to favour the worldwide groundswell of civil resistance over armed violence. This could be facilitated by a more dynamic and comprehensive interpretation of existing international law in the light of a broader understanding of those rights of which civil resista

By Maciej Bartkowski and Annyssa Bellal

/ 3 May 2011