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13 Oct Weekly News Wrap: Monday, October 13, 2014
...the country’s east, including a nine-year-old child, but the international coalition said on Monday the strike killed eight militants who had fired on its forces. Europe The Russian navy twice interfered with a Finnish state environmental research vessel in international waters in August and September, the Finnish Environment Institute said on Saturday. British lawmakers will hold a symbolic parliamentary vote on Monday on whether the government should recognize Palestine as a state, a move unlikely to shift official policy but designed to raise the political profile of the issue. Last...
25 Sep The ICJ’s Insufficient Engagement with Germany’s Interpretation of the External Dimension of Common Article 1 in the Nicaragua v Germany Proceedings
...law has and will continue to be violated. It is common knowledge. World dignitaries, such as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese have engaged in detailed analyses of Israel’s violations of international law, and their statements and reports are publicly available and are easily accessible. Further, the UN Commission on Inquiry on the Situation in Palestine has established that IHL has been violated by Israel following the October 7th attacks. Palestinian NGOs have also raised their voices regarding potential violations of international...06 Sep Towards Neutralizing the Jihadi Narrative: Settlement (No Pun Intended) of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
...as a shapeless abstraction which claimants of all kinds can shape Humpty-Dumpty-like to the needs of their particular causes). Palestine is the last of the Non-Self-Governing territories recognized as such at the inception of the UN. The others have experienced some process of self-determination, even if nothing more than “one person, one vote, once.” In the case of Palestine, the appropriate organ of the UN, the General Assembly, concluded (in 1947) that there were two People ( a politically sensible simplification, of course) in the territory and that in the...19 Oct Events and Announcements: October 19, 2014
...and to register, please click here. The Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University is pleased to invite the public to the conference “Lessons for Transitional Justice in Israel-Palestine”, to be held on 16-17 November 2014 at Tel Aviv University. The conference builds on an academic collaboration between Israeli, Palestinian and South African students and researchers who participated last summer in an intensive two-week Transitional Justice Workshop at the University of Johannesburg. At the conference, international and local scholars will share perspectives on current theories and practices that...04 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Friday, January 4, 2013
...the United States to face terrorism charges. The Volokh Conspiracy has a post about the International Criminal Court and Palestine in light of the recent UN General Assembly resolution granting Palestine upgraded observer state status. The US Justice Department reached a $1.4bn settlement with Transocean Ltd., the owner of the drilling rig that sank after an explosion killed 11 workers and spawned the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Argentina has reasserted its claim over the Malvinas Islands, also known as the Falkland Islands, and urged Great...29 Mar Comparing the ICJ’s Provisional Measures Orders in South Africa v. Israel
...operations, as this is the only way to secure a zero-civilian-casualty rate in Palestine. Others, including myself, were more sceptical. We believed reading the Order and the individual Judges’ separate opinions revealed that the Court’s intent was not to ordera ceasefire, primarily because, if that had been its intent, it would have simply spelled it out. Instead, only Judge Bhandari included wording favourable to this, and in a very vague way: “Going further though”, he said, “all participants in the conflict must ensure that all fighting and hostilities come to...
16 Aug Symposium on Oumar Ba’s Book ‘States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court’–Introductory Post
[Owiso Owiso is a Doctoral Researcher in Public International Law at the University of Luxembourg.] Inter-governmental organisations are often theatres of inter-state politics. Why then does the suggestion that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may not be any different bother observers so? Well, that is perhaps because the ICC is not just another ‘ordinary’ inter-governmental organisation. It is also, and perhaps primarily, a judicial mechanism. As the only permanent international criminal court, and one with the grandiose ambition of ending impunity for international crimes, the ICC is often perceived by...
20 Apr ICC Sanctions Symposium: From Subtle Opposition to Active Marginalisation–U.S. Sanctions Against I.C.C. Officials in Context, and Future Implications
...consider as ICC’s expansive reach of jurisdiction. It is also noteworthy that the Security Council has not taken sufficient steps to ensure cooperation in compliance with the two resolutions referring Sudan and Libya to the ICC (see, Aregawi). This is in addition to not providing financial support to the Court for the referred situations. After years of selecting situations primarily on the African continent, the Court has in the past few years started focussing on other situations in other parts of the world. What may have been a turning point...
15 Aug Settler Violence as State Wrongful Act and Third State Obligations
...the provisions of the law of occupation – on Third States obligations to take measures against Israeli settler violence. In this post, I build on the study Violence and State Attribution: The Case of Occupied Palestine and the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion of July 2024 on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. I briefly discuss the legal basis on which Third States must prevent, stop and punish extremist settler violence as a form of State atrocities. I argue that...
11 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza BILC 2024: Summary and Declaration
...with academic institutions to integrate these topics into their curricula. Leverage the ICJ Advisory Opinion: Develop strategies to leverage the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Palestine by emphasising its findings in international legal forums and political advocacy. Use the opinion to support legal actions, shape diplomatic strategies, pursue corporate accountability, and pressure states to adhere to its conclusions. Strengthen Legal Actions at the ICJ and ICC: Intensify efforts to bring Israeli actions before the ICJ and ICC, focusing on the genocidal aspects of their policies. Compile and present comprehensive legal documentation...