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28 Sep Facebook and Territorial Disputes
...if you do, damned if you don’t.” CNN explains: Facebook recently changed its listing for the Golan Heights — which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 — so users there could choose to say whether they live in Israel or Syria. It was responding to pressure from a pro-Israel group called HonestReporting — and from Facebook users who set up a group on the site itself called “Facebook, Golan Residents Live in Israel, not Syria.” “It is not for Facebook to decide the national origin of Golan residents,” the group...09 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, August 9, 2012
According to the UN, Afghanistan civilan deaths are down for the first time since it started counting in 2007, though officials say that this is due to an extremely harsh winter rather than improved security. The United Nations also reports that targeted killings in Afghanistan have risen 53%. Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair has expressed his deep concern that the UK will leave the European Union in a referendum. In other statements from former heads of state, France’s Nicholas Sarkozy has called for a humanitarian intervention in Syria. Syrian troops...03 Oct Weekly News Wrap: October 3, 2013
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Middle East The Security Council has urged the Syrian government to allow cross-border aid deliveries, calling on all parties to Syria’s conflict to agree on humanitarian pauses in fighting and key routes for aid convoys. Russian President Vladimir Putin seems optimistic about Syria, saying global powers were “on the right track” with a plan to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons and could avert military intervention in the conflict if they worked together. US Secretary of State, John...02 Jul Weekday News Wrap: July 2, 2012
The ICC turned 10 yesterday. Amnesty International’s Secretary General passes judgement here. Militants in Timbuktu, Mali, are destroying Sufi shrines, which they consider idolatrous. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has expressed his concern and ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has warned that the actions can be considered a war crime. Tensions continue to build along the Syria-Turkey border. The UN-backed Group on Syria reached an agreement over the weekend about principles for the transition government. However, Syria’s opposition has expressed disappointment over the outcome of the Geneva talks, as Russia resisted...
09 Sep The Case of the Istanbul Bar Association: Justice on Trial in Türkiye?
...in Istanbul a day later. It was made in a context in which Türkiye’s active involvement in the armed conflict in Syria, particularly its support to armed Islamist groups and military operations targeting predominantly Kurdish areas in the north, had repeatedly drawn international criticism for serious human rights abuses (here and here). Both journalists had reported extensively over the past decade on the war in Syria, as well as armed clashes between Turkish forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in southeastern Türkiye and were reportedly targeted with criminal charges...
19 Feb Justice for the Yazidis in the Ishaq Case by the Stockholm District Court – Part I
...convicted for having committed genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crime against women and children belonging to the Yazidi community in Syria. It will expand on the summary in English issued by the district court. This was actually the second trial for Ishaq; the same court had in a judgment of 4 March 2022 convicted her for complicity in the war crime of recruiting child soldiers in Raqqa, Syria. Thus, at the time of her second trial she was already serving a six-year prison term. This post is only...
20 Feb Tertium datur: A Step Towards Squaring the Circle on the Current Meaning of Self-defence?
...of the territory of Syria and Iraq has been admitted by the Security Council (Resolution 2179), governments (see, for instance, Germany, S/2015/946; Belgium, S/2016/523) and scholars (such as Chaumette and Corten). There is however a strong resistance to assimilate ISIS to a subject of international law. Nonetheless, it has been argued with regard to non-recognized States that “[a]n international wrongful act does not prevent the creation of a State which is a question of fact, and a State which exists in fact attains its legal status solely on the basis...11 Feb “Victory is Not an Option”: General Odom’s Op-Ed
Matthew Gross I don't see any point in attempting to negotiate with Iran or Syria. They are our enemies and care only to negotiate in so much as it gives them time to build a stronger position. Time is on there side, and not on ours, unless we are hoping for a technological revolution to remove the primacy of oil. Chris Borgen That oversimplifies things, somewhat. I am not sure if you are implying we should actually go to war with Iran, but I'll use your comment as a launching...