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17 Jan Some Thoughts on the Politics and Power Struggles of “Global South” Diversity
...my identity as a white Peruvian in Peru and as a Latin American anywhere north of the 30°N parallel, was at the root of my confusion that day. Certainly, I had not transformed into a person of colour overnight, by the sheer fact of crossing an invisible line that separated the Global South from the Global North, right? And yet the categories available seemed frustratingly limited. I don’t think the politics of my situation as a (white) (Latino) migrant are the same as that of a white person from Europe...03 Sep Washington Post Stories on the CIA and JSOC – and My Prediction of Harold Koh’s Legacy as Legal Adviser
...the target than conventional military operations would require — this is, after all, what makes it intelligence-driven targeted killing. In that particular aspect, covert action (again speaking loosely) ought to have standards that are higher than simply those that are and legally should be applied to that other use of drones – not targeted killing, but instead the targeting of a mass of combatants id’d as fighters crossing the Afghan border to fight Americans. (Drones have a role in both conventional warfare and special operations targeted killing, but the latter...01 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Friday, June 1, 2012
...in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Canada has finalized its withdrawal from the UN World Tourism Office following the decision to appoint Robert Mugabe as tourism ambassador. The UN meanwhile disputes that it involves a formal appointment. Aung San Suu Kyi has warned against “reckless optimism” over the reforms in Myanmar and has asked foreign investors to focus on job creation to defuse the time bomb of high youth employment. An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian gunman were killed at a border crossing in Gaza this morning. The Italian Supreme Court...
06 Nov Forced Displacement of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh: A Response
...retroactivity to 10 May 2021. Thus, the ICC will have jurisdiction over the displacement of the Armenians the same way that it does over that of the Rohingya for acts of deportation “by expulsion or other coercive acts” under Articles 7(1)(d) and 7(2)(d) by virtue of victims crossing the border from a State not Party to a State Party to the Rome Statute (see here, para. 73). To the extent that such deportation targeted the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh as the Rohingya on impermissible grounds (e.g. ethnic, religious, political, or other),...18 Jun The Great Tomato Trade Wars
...that all exports to the United States have come to a complete halt. “We can’t sell a single box of tomatoes,” said Jesus Macias, sales manager at the Productora Agricola Industrial del Noreste in the border state of Baja California. “Mexican growers said their produce is subject to double the scrutiny that U.S. tomatoes face: inspected first by Mexican officials and then again at the border when crossing into the U.S.” The FDA salmonella warning provides a useful heuristic about the intersection between international trade litigation and investment arbitration. I...
07 Feb Biometric Data, Data Protection Authorities, and Migrants: A Complex Nexus
...the Italian Department of Public Security: Data refer to disembarkation events recorded before 8 a.m. until 8 September 2023. Although it may appear that the most difficult and complicated part is the sea crossing, people arriving on European shores are faced with another part of the journey that is no less important for their future: the identification and asylum application procedure. Leaving aside the technical aspects of the latter, what is addressed here are the critical issues that the identification procedure entails with respect to the protection of personal data enshrined...
18 Jul One Ship and Three Identities: What Is International Law Tracking?
...and identity- at least 17 times, continued to disappear from tracking systems while crossing the Strait of Malacca and the waters off Sri Lanka, eventually emerging with a different name. That raises a question: what was being tracked? And how? Was it the ship’s flag, its registered or documentary identity, satellite imagery of the ship, its physical appearance, or its AIS-transmitted data? The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was drafted around a ship’s flag, physically verifiable information, and registration, not real-time digital ship data. This...
03 Feb Rule of Law or Law of Rule: UNSC Resolution 2803 as Anathema to International Law
...ISF will be responsible for securing borders, decommissioning weapons from non-state armed groups, and coordinating with relevant States to consolidate humanitarian corridors (para 7). Pitched as the ‘long-term internal security solution’, the ISF’s increasing control over Gazan territory will enable the IDF to withdraw from the territory based on timelines ‘that will be agreed upon between the IDF, ISF, the guarantors, and the United States’ (Annex, para 15). In sum, the Resolution establishes two bodies with coercive powers of extraordinary reach, subject to practically no checks and balances, and in...
16 Apr Sudan and the People’s Revolution: Out with the Old…
...‘Rapid Support Forces’ on the understanding that they prevent migrants and refugees from crossing Sudan and heading north towards Europe. The Rapid Support Forces now receiving EU funding are the same militia commonly known as the ‘Janjaweed’ – the militia responsible for a campaign of murder, torture, rape and forced displacement in Darfur” a perspective shared here as well. The story is rapidly unfolding as protests continue. Who knows what will happen, but what is clear is that Bashir’s removal is momentous and could herald a new day for Sudan....
03 Jan The ICC Prosecutor’s Double Standards in the Time of an Unfolding Genocide
...statements shortly after the start of the Russian 2022 invasion. A Shift in The Prosecutor’s Approach to the Palestine Situation Since the 29th October 2023 The Palestine situation constitutes one of most widely documented contexts of alleged commission of international crimes. It took to the Prosecutor 23 days since the Hamas attacks (1,139 killed in Israel and 8.005 deaths in Gaza, including 3.324 children), to take direct and public action in the situation in Palestine. On 29 October, Khan visited the Rafah crossing point between Gaza and Egypt, which was...