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16 Mar Events and Announcements: 16 March 2025
...can be found here. Event TwoLaW Lecture – The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion: The TwoLaW – Lecture Series on the Laws of War invites you to an online lecture by Marco Milanovic on “The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion.” The lecture will examine the ICJ’s 2024 advisory opinion on Israel’s Occupied Palestinian Territory and unpack the Court’s reasoning and the judges’ individual opinions. The lecture takes place on Microsoft Teams on Monday, 24 March 2025, from 6-7 pm CET. Please make sure to register at akonecny@uni-mainz.de....
01 Sep The European Union Human Rights Sanctions Regime and its Applicability to the Situation in Gaza and the West Bank in Accordance with International Law
...and genocide. The first article of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) is unequivocal on this obligation, so is IHL under Common Art. 1. When such violations are subject to sanctions, the objective is compliance with international law. Sanctions for Violations in Gaza and the West Bank? The IPC declaration of famine in Gaza on 15 August 2025 marks the unimaginable. The devastation continued to spiral despite the stark alerts from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the...04 Jun Events and Announcements: 4 June 2023
...also explore the complementarity of the CAH Convention with the Rome Statute (ICC) and the proposed Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty. For more information and to register, click here. The Forthcoming ICJ Advisory Opinion and the Question of Palestine: On 14 June 2023 at 5 pm Jerusalem time (UTC+3), the Diakonia IHL Centre will host a webinar titled The Forthcoming ICJ Advisory Opinion and the Question of Palestine, featuring speakers Professor Susan Akram (Boston University) and Dr Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster). To learn more and to register, please click here....06 Sep Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Liberian Daily Observer has reported that Judge Sow of the Special Court for Sierra Leone has been called by the defense team of Charles Taylor and will testify in his appeal. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has accused both the government and the rebel forces in Syria of human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law. Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said that Palestine will make a bid this month at the UN General Assembly for an upgraded status to non-member observer state, now...06 Dec Events and Announcements: 5 December 2020
...pages specifying submission category (1-7 above). For categories 3 and 4 please include: research description, goals, innovation, methodology and budget; For all other categories please include areas of focus, goals, expected outputs. All applications must be accompanied by a curriculum vita of applicant(s) and two names of potential recommenders familiar with his/her abilities. Deadline: 8 February 2021. Please send submissions to Dr. Michal Ben Gal, Minerva Center Research Coordinator bmichal[at]geo[dot]haifa[dot]ac[dot]il. See also our website under “Funding Opportunities“. Call for Papers Palestinian Yearbook of International Law: The Palestine Yearbook of International...
07 May On the Refusal to Call a Spade a Spade
[Nimer Sultany is a Reader in Public Law at SOAS University of London and the Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law.] In a recent lecture at the Imperial War Museums, the prominent lawyer and author Philippe Sands makes several problematic and surprising claims concerning South Africa v. Israel, the genocide case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Sands, who represents Palestine in the ICJ case on the legality of the occupation, claims in this lecture that he no longer thinks that genocide is a useful concept anymore....
01 Nov Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Mafalda and the World – A Timeless Critique from a Twailer
...world would only look to where they point. And these heavyweights did not point to Palestine. Similarly to today, where condemnation of Israeli actions came at first from ‘lightweight’ and ‘middle weight’ countries but not from ‘heavyweight’ ones. It is the latter the ones that are hindering stopping the atrocities committed, it is the latter the ones that are erasing Palestinian voices. As a ‘lightweight’ country, Palestine’s voice does not matter. Mafalda has a complicated relationship with the United Nations. She lives in this ‘double consciousness’, Mafalda wants a seat...11 Apr Events and Announcements: 11 April 2021
Events Webinar on Palestine, Israel and the ICC: The Nottingham Law School (NLS) Centre for Rights and Justice is pleased to announce a webinar on ‘The Long Walk to Justice: Palestine, Israel and the International Criminal Court’ on 12 April 2021 from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. The webinar will host the contributions of Prof Richard Falk, former UN special rapporteur on the situation in the occupied territories, and of world-leading voices (of both scholars and practitioners) involved in the international legal debate surrounding this pressing issue (Prof. Chantal Meloni,...
12 Jan How Does ‘Matter’ Matter In International Conflict and Security? An Examination of the Importance of Mosques
...genocide against Uighur Muslims, thousands of mosques have been destroyed or converted to other uses, part of China’s attempt to “re-educate” the Muslim community and remove their ability to learn, gather, and pray at the mosques. The most volatile and ongoing conflict involving mosques is in Palestine, where Israeli forces and Jewish citizens frequently attack the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, terrorizing civilians as they gather to pray, chanting “Mohammed is dead,” and calling for the destruction of the mosque. In one such attack, timed to occur...