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07 May Unbreakable Bond: Tracing the Ties Between African and Palestinian Anti-Colonial Struggles (Call for Submissions)
A forthcoming symposium coordinated by Mohsen al Attar and Nciko wa Nciko African peoples and states have long stood in solidarity with the liberation struggle of Palestinians. Following each proclamation of independence across the continent, African leaders demanded the same for Palestine, a place that encapsulated anti-colonial resistance to Western (racial) imperialism. As Nelson Mandela powerfully declared: ‘our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.’ Likewise, Sankara was unforgiving: “Lastly, I speak out in indignation as I think of the Palestinians, whom this most inhuman humanity has replaced...
22 Jun Symposium on the Global Sumud Flotilla: The Gaza Blockade as an Instrument of Genocide – International Law, Global Sumud Flotilla, and Normalization of Illegality
...or destroyed and most available water failing to meet international quality standards. Beyond the economic devastation, the prolonged crisis has deeply affected Palestinian society, weakening social cohesion and causing a significant deterioration in mental health, particularly among children and young people. Blockading the Sea, Too Since 2007, Israel has maintained the blockade by unlawfully occupying the maritime zones belonging to Palestine (the Gaza Strip). Palestine acceded to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 2015 and subsequently notified the United Nations in 2019 of its...
09 Aug Symposium on Unbroken Bond: Tracing the Ties Between African and Palestinian Anti-Colonial Struggles – The Political Economy of Suffering: Who Profits from Global South Conflicts?
[Sanjana Ragu is an Bachelor of Laws graduate from Strathmore University and currrenly works as a trainee lawyer at Anjarwalla & Khanna] Be it Palestine in the East, or Sudan in the South, in the chessboard of global politics and economy, the suffering of the Global South is often a pawn, sacrificed for strategic advantage. This wretched reality becomes apparent once the profiteers of any conflict are exposed. Accepting the premise that wars and conflict emanate from a confluence of events, this essay looks at the political economy dimension of...
12 Dec Symposium on Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law: Piecing Together the Accountability Puzzle: Using Open Source Information to Fight Detention-related Impunity in the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza
...Holocaust, those in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, at present in Palestine, and allegedly in Myanmar and Xinjiang China, has been the use of internment camps and other detention facilities to separate out and abuse or kill members of a particular group. Given the closed nature of detention centres, in earlier instances of genocide, law enforcement, legal actors, civil society, and journalists often needed to wait until individuals had escaped or been released to obtain their testimony, or until the conflict was over to be able to physically visit sites...
21 Aug Peace in the Middle East is Still About “Land for Peace”
...vision of “a region where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders”. The most recent is resolution 2334 (2016), which was adopted during the presidency of Barack Obama, in which the council reaffirmed that “the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace”....23 Jun Events and Announcements: 23 June 2024
...the Centre for Evidence & Criminal Justice Studies in Northumbria University will jointly host a symposium on ‘The Situation in Palestine- Emerging Domestic and International Jurisprudence’. This event reflects on international and domestic developments to defend Palestinian rights. This symposium brings together leading practitioners and scholars of international law who have been at the forefront of pursuing and analysing this emerging jurisprudence. We will reflect critically on the situation in Palestine today and the possibilities and limits of these various legal initiatives in different judicial arenas. The event’s keynote speakers will be...
25 Feb The Nature and Implications of Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territory: Part I
...obligations towards the Palestinian Territory must be assessed going forward. Israeli Belligerent Occupation of the Palestinian Territories 1967-1994 Israel first established effective control over the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem—then widely referred to as the “Palestinian territories”—during the 1967 “Six Day War,” an IAC between Israel and several Arab States, including Egypt and Jordan. Much as today, the international legal status of those territories was ambiguous in 1967. The Palestinian territories constituted those parts of the former Mandate of Palestine that lay outside the 1949 armistice lines...09 Oct 50 States Now Recognize Kosovo’s Independence
is. While it is true that the State of Palestine is recognized by over 100, it is misleading to make numerical comparisons between the State of Palestine and Kosovo when it comes to the recognition of their statehood. As you know very well the 50 states that recognized Kosovo make up 70.24% of the global GDP. Moreover, besides being recognized by 22 out of 26 and 27 member states of NATO and EU, respectively, Kosovo is recognized by 7 out of 8 member states of G8. In a nutshell, Kosovo...
24 Sep Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization: Undermining the Right to Protest by Weaponizing Antisemitism
...the most peaceful protests, particularly in public spaces such as train stations. Militarised police responses have been triggered by the use of specific language, such as the slogan: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’. Moreover, talks by noted experts, such as Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta and UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese have been cancelled. In both the United States and Germany, coordinators and taskforces on antisemitism have been established. In line with prevailing trends, these government units have primarily targeted students and faculty critical...
30 Jan The Legal Framework Regulating Israel’s Use of Force in the West Bank
...like Hamas and Fatah, do not belong to the State of Palestine in the sense that they are fighting for the State and the State has accepted that the group is fighting on its behalf (2020 Commentary to GC III, para. 1,005). These groups are also not under the overall control of Palestine or another State in the sense that they have “a role in organising, coordinating or planning the military actions of the military group, in addition to financing, training and equipping or providing operational support” (Prosecutor v. Tadić,...