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05 Nov The OTP Concludes Israel Is Still Occupying Gaza
...view that “by exercise of authority one should mean not only the display of sovereign or other powers (lawmaking, law enforcement, administrative powers, etc.) but also any exercise of power, however limited in time (for instance, the use of belligerent force in an armed conflict). And btw, Uganda-Gaza (360 km2) and Syria(Golan) are misleading comparisons. Matthew Mainen The ICJ case was in 2004. Israel Withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Israel most certainly does not manage civilian life in Gaza. It has zero control over day-to-day life in Gaza inasmuch as...31 Jan The CIA Violated the Terrorist Bombing Convention
...self-defense against the non-state actor who is DPAA are not measures against the territorial state. Kevin Jon Heller The next time Syria uses a chemical weapon to defend itself against an armed attack, I look forward to your argument that Syria's "inherent right of self-defence" has "primacy" over its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention. Xavier @ Jordan: Would you apply the standard that you are invoking in your comment universally? For example, it is well known that CIA backed terrorists have organized attacks against Cuba from South Florida. One...23 Aug Syria, Chemical Weapons, and the Incoherence of the VCLT
My friend Dapo Akande has a superb post at EJIL: Talk! discussing whether the ICC could prosecute the use of chemical weapons by the government in Syria. I agree almost entirely with Dapo’s analysis, but I do want to offer a couple of thoughts about his discussion of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: The argument that chemical weapons are not covered by Art. 8 is thus based on the removal of the explicit prohibition and the fact that it was thought that it would be the annex...
21 Aug The Missing Perpetrator and the Missing Victim: What France’s First Conviction for the Yazidi Genocide Reveals
be placed at the centre of justice and treated as a core part of accountability, not as a separate issue. This means investing in forensic work and DNA analysis, coordinating exhumations with criminal investigations, and ensuring that information from trials and from missing-persons work flows in both directions. It also means using and supporting existing mechanisms, such as the UN Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic (IIMP) and the new Syrian national commission on the missing and disappeared, and linking them to efforts in Iraq. Finally,...14 Nov MJIL Symposium: A Response to Spencer Zifcak by Ramesh Thakur
back in New York, there was an unbridgeable gap between effective civilian protection, which Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (‘BRICS’) supported, and regime change, which they strongly opposed. One important result of the gaps was a split in the international response to the worsening crisis in Syria. Both China and Russia, still smarting from the over-interpretation of Resolution 1973, have been defiantly opposed to any resolution that could set in train a sequence of events leading to a 1973-type authorisation for outside military operations in Syria. Fourthly, the...