International Events This Week

There was no shortage of headlines implicating international law this week, most of them unfortunately bad. From humanitarian disaster in Myanmar, caused by the government violence against the Muslim minority called Rohingya, to a continuing humanitarian disaster in South Sudan due to internal armed conflict; to mounting tension in Spain due to the Catalonian bid for self-determination and independence. One of the worst ongoing humanitarian disasters is in Yemen, caused by both an internal armed conflict within Yemen, and the conflict between factions within Yemen and a coalition lead by Saudia Arabia, and supported by the U.S.