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26 Mar Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
...leader of the rebels in the Central African Republic has vowed to announce a power-sharing government as soon as possible. This comes after he suspended the constitution and pledged to dissolve parliament. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has urged restoration of constitutional order in the CAR as swiftly as possible. An Egyptian prosecutor has ordered the arrest of five activists accused of inciting violence against the Muslim Brotherhood. Jordan has closed its main border crossing with Syria after two days of fighting between rebel forces and Syrian troops. North Korea...
09 Dec Symposium on Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law: Genocide in Gaza – Earth Observation, Surveillance, and the Politics of Control
...makes clear that Israel’s genocide in Gaza includes forcibly displacing and concentrating survivors. After the 13 October 2023 order, which forced 1.1 million people to flee the north in 24 hours, satellite and aerial imagery captured a militarized boundary splitting the Strip and an east–west bulldozed corridor near Wadi Gaza that closed people south. At the Salah al‑Din crossing, overhead images show new Israeli checkpoints where civilians were bottled up, harassed, and in some cases shot for trying to return, mapping coerced herding that turned vast areas into a “no‑man’s‑land.”...17 Sep Israel Shows Its Contempt for Academic Freedom
...and Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), as well as numerous academic articles. This act of denial of entry and deportation by the Israeli state and its agencies is part of a systematic policy of denial of entry to international academics, professionals and activists intending to visit Palestine. This policy represents an attack on Palestinian academic freedom, and is routinely practiced at the two entry points, the airport in Tel Aviv and the Jordan valley crossing from Jordan. Israel is truly the Donald Trump of...06 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, June 6, 2013
South Korea has agreed to negotiate with North Korea on the reopening of a joint industrial park that was closed in April after rising tensions. The ICC Prosecutor has reported to the UN Security Council on the situation in Darfur. The EU Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator wants member states to do more to restrict their citizens travelling to Syria to fight with extremist groups. Syrian rebels have seized the only border crossing between Syria and Israel on the Golan Heights. The IMF has issued a report admitting that it made mistakes in...24 Aug Weekly News Wrap: Monday, August 24, 2015
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa Suspected Boko Haram militants ambushed a convoy carrying Nigeria’s chief of army staff on a tour of towns in troubled Borno state, the army said early on Sunday. Middle East and Northern Africa The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has blown up a 2,000-year-old temple in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, a rights group and the country’s antiquities chief have said. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said that its...10 Jan UN Heal Thyself
...place. As the Washington Post reports today, Volcker uncovered serious problems in the Commission’s auditing function, including troubling allegations that the Commission paid out undocumented claims against the Iraq government by third countries: The auditors cited several cases in which countries made huge, undocumented claims. Iran claimed $2.7 billion in costs for providing humanitarian assistance to waves of refugees crossing its border. It received $7.87 million. Jordan put in a claim for more than $6.5 billion for providing relief to people fleeing Kuwait and Iraq, but received $72 million. Israel,...22 Jun Weekly News Wrap: Monday, June 22nd, 2015
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa South Africa’s main opposition on Sunday called for a full investigation into the government’s failure to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who is due to face charges of genocide at the International Criminal Court. Somali armed group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for an attack on a military compound in Mogadishu where Somali intelligence officials train, claiming it killed “many intelligence forces”. Middle East and Northern Africa More than 20 air strikes by Arab forces hit...
12 Jul Reparations for War in Ukraine: A Harm-Based Approach
...(often decades), subject to judicial and political challenge, and prioritising resources to those most affected. The UN guidance on reparations remains declaratory on the norms for violations in war, and more recently we have outlined more specific best practices on how to implement such norms under the Belfast Guidelines. The efforts towards establishing a compensation claims commission for the war in Ukraine need to keep in mind that compensation by itself will not effectively remedy the harm caused and needs a nuanced approach to eligibility. Many reparations programmes developed at...
11 Jul The New STCoA: The Good, the Bad, the Curious, and the Terrible
...personal immunity applies at the STCoA, in the “bad” category. I’m putting it in the “good” category for two reasons. First, given that there is no argument that an STCoA created by the CoE and Ukraine qualifies as “international” within the meaning of Arrest Warrant, denying personal immunity to the so-called “troika” would violate international law. And second, I think the provision is actually pretty clever, going right up to the Arrest Warrant line without actually crossing it. The Arrest Warrant judgment basically prohibits any national exercise of enforcement jurisdiction,...