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18 Oct Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
...already been displaced, and Israeli forces have bombed the only possible exit route that Israel does not control, the Rafah crossing to Egypt multiple times. The World Health Organisation published a warning that “[f]orcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence”. There has also been an escalation of violence, arrests, expulsions, and destruction of whole Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank...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...
16 Mar Silent Signals: Electronic Warfare and the Legal Grey Zone
...and French satellites were reportedly affected by activity traced to Moscow, Kaliningrad, and Pavlovka. Still, no state officially labelled these actions a breach of Article 2(4), showing just how much jamming exists in a legal grey zone. Nevertheless, space is a unique domain. Some counterspace technologies could displace a satellite from its designated orbit, leading to its effective incapacitation or permanent destruction, thereby crossing the threshold of a use of force. In other words, the line between reversible signal interference and a full-blown use of force can be surprisingly thin,...06 Sep ICC Says Trump Can Be Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity Involving Mexican-Americans
...(2) preventing civilians from crossing the border into their state of nationality is an act that takes place on the territory of the state they are trying to leave. Here, Donald Trump’s policies are unlawfully preventing Mexican-American civilians from returning to their state of nationality, the US, from the territory of Mexico, a state party. There is little question that enough Mexican-Americans are being prevented from returning to the US to satisfy the “widespread or systematic” contextual element of crimes against humanity. The ICC thus has jurisdiction to prosecute Donald...13 Mar YLS Sale Symposium: The European Union Policy on Refugees and Its Effect on Eritrean Refugees
...the aim of patrolling Libyan waters and brings intercepted migrants back to Libya. As the result of these these skewed agreements and policies which are contrary to EU refugee regimes and the principle of non-refoulment a cornerstone of the international refugee protection, many refugees became victims of many violations of human rights, and death in the sea. Many Eritreans were intercepted by Italian sea patrol and returned back to Libya where they faced imprisonment in harsh conditions for years. Furthermore, hundreds of Eritreans who took the risk of crossing the...
28 Sep Human Rights as Human Rights: Generating Enforceable Human Rights Standards by Shifting the Intrastate Solution from Moral Rhetoric to Strategic Legal Discourse (Part II)
...these elements, and for which the citizenry can help to hold its government accountable, is the United States’ 2018 “zero-tolerance policy” concerning the separation of immigrant families upon entering the country. In writing, the policy intended to criminally prosecute 100% of immigrants crossing the United States-Mexico border with their children and without prior authorization. In practice, the policy not only deterred immigration, but punished children for action taken by their parents. This punishment included separating children from their parents and siblings for an indefinite period – sometimes for months at...06 Aug ICC Submissions and the “Continuing Violation” (Non-)Doctrine
...for fear that it might also shed light on the fate and whereabouts of the missing Swapo detainees. The NSHR also wants Nujoma to be tried for gross violations in the Kavango region, which borders Angola, between 1994 and 1996. At the height of Unita’s attacks on northern Namibia, Nujoma imposed a state of emergency and ordered security forces to shoot on sight anyone crossing or found near the border. The article betrays a complete failure to understand how the ICC operates. The fact that the Prosecutor is “weighing the...15 Aug Weekly News Wrap: Monday, August 15, 2016
Here’s your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa At least 64 people have been killed in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an attack carried out by suspected rebels. Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has published a video apparently showing recent footage of dozens of school girls kidnapped two years ago, and saying some of them have been killed in air strikes. South Sudan said on Sunday it would consider the U.N.’s decision to authorize sending extra troops to the country...
26 Jun A Libyan Playground for Foreign Powers: Presenting the Case for ‘Negative Equality’
...other military equipment. Over the course of six months, the Turks tipped the scales squarely in favour of the GNA – with a battle currently looming over the strategic coastal city of Sirte. Haftar’s foreign backers – including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Russia and France – were left scrambling to formulate a firm response. That response came on Saturday 20 June, when Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi boldly declared Sirte and the inland al Jufra air base a red line, the crossing of which would trigger a direct...
03 Nov Eroding Sovereignty in the Age of “War as a Service”
...state from direct ownership of its technological foundations means its digital sovereignty is contingent and reversible. It exists only so long as those that host its data permit it. In physical terms, data centres are fixed installations subject to territorial law. In functional terms, however, they form a transnational terrain of power that no single state controls. A classified dataset may reside on servers located in multiple jurisdictions, connected by fibre networks crossing oceans. Encryption and access protocols create enclaves of virtual territory that can be expanded, contracted, or deleted...