Patricia Wiater
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Patricia Wiater holds the Chair for Public Law, Public International Law and Human Rights at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and is a member of the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN).
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Are we still friends? The U.S. and EU approach to ‘friend-shoring’ of supply chains
On August 28, 2023 the Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Wang Wentao and the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo held talks in Beijing in light of a tense exchange of measures restricting bilateral trade. It is only a few weeks after the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) imposed…
On war, international sports and human rights standards
April 3, 2023
Patricia Wiater
On 28 March 2023, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued new recommendations for international sports federations (IFs) and international sports event organisers and advocated for re-admitting athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport to international competitions. In addition to the conditions already proposed by the IOC in January 2023 to admit Russian and Belarusian athletes…
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Are we still friends? The U.S. and EU approach to ‘friend-shoring’ of supply chains
On August 28, 2023 the Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Wang Wentao and the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo held talks in Beijing in light of a tense exchange of measures restricting bilateral trade. It is only a few weeks after the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) imposed…
On war, international sports and human rights standards
April 3, 2023
Patricia Wiater
On 28 March 2023, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued new recommendations for international sports federations (IFs) and international sports event organisers and advocated for re-admitting athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport to international competitions. In addition to the conditions already proposed by the IOC in January 2023 to admit Russian and Belarusian athletes…
Olympics 2024: The litmus test for the future role of international sport in times of war
July 19, 2024
Patricia Wiater
As the Moscow Times reports, ‘only 16 Russians and 17 Belarusians have accepted invitations to compete under a neutral banner at the Paris Olympics’. While this may sound like a deliberate decision, the reality is that the ‘Individual Neutral Athlete Eligibility Review Panel’ (INAERP), appointed by the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Executive…