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28 Sep Symposium on the Current Crisis in Myanmar: Untangling Myanmar’s Credentials Battle and the Implications for International Justice
...such a declaration? The resolution of the UN Credentials issues won’t dispositively answer that question, but as indicated by the Pre-Trial Chamber’s analysis in the Palestine decision, the orientation of the UN General Assembly to a state (or in this case a government) is probative as to whether it has such legal capacity. Of course, if it does, it would be a step forward to ending Tatmadaw impunity. The outcome of the credentials process may also have reverberations in The Gambia’s case against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice...13 Nov Small Sovereign Archipelago Seeks New, Elevated Homeland
...residents of Malé, the world’s most densely populated town where more than 100,000 people cram into 2 square kilometers (see the photo above). Nasheed’s solution? Find new land to relocate the population: “We can do nothing to stop climate change on our own and so we have to buy land elsewhere. It’s an insurance policy for the worst possible outcome. After all, the Israelis [began by buying] land in Palestine,” said Nasheed . . . The president, a human rights activist who swept to power in elections last month after...21 Dec State Responsibility for Citizenship in India: Lessons from Myanmar, and the CERD Inter-State Communications Mechanism
...the ICERD committee is hearing inter-state disputes, and not just complaints from individuals. This means that another state that alleges a violation of the provisions of the treaty can approach the ICERD committee. Currently, the committee is considering two complaints by Qatar against Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as one by Palestine against Israel. This legal route may well be initiated by another state against India, in relation to the discriminatory provisions of the Constitutional Amendment Act of 2019, on the basis of a violation of the CERD convention. While...22 Dec Banksy Comments on the Wall — As Only He Can
British artist Banksy knocks it out of the park again, with a rather unusual rendering of a Nativity scene: As ArtInfo notes, this is not Banksy’s first comment on the Israel/Palestine conflict. He painted nine amazing murals directly on the wall in 2005, including a boy drawing a chalk ladder over the wall and a girl floating over the wall with a bouquet of balloons. Is there a more brilliant and politically insightful artist working today than Banksy? I’m still blown away by the meat truck filled with wailing stuffed...
14 Oct ‘Slow Death’ as Genocide: The Convention Was Written for Gaza
...for Gaza, the authors wrote, “Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The total death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population’s inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA [UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine], one of the very few humanitarian organisations still active...10 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, April 10, 2013
...three days of meetings in the Middle East promising aid to Palestine and hoping for a restart to the peace process. France has begun withdrawing troops from Mali in an effort to transition the operations to a UN-mandated force. Jurist has more on Uhuru Kenyatta’s swearing-in as Kenya’s newest president. Al-Qaeda’s Iraq branch has reportedly merged with a Syrian armed opposition group, a move likely to cause concern with the opposition’s international supporters. US president Barack Obama has pledged military assistance to Somalia in a move to “strengthen the security...03 Jul For Unrecognized Entities and Would-Be States, the World Cup is Already Over
...having their football associations become part of a confederation, let alone FIFA. The New York Times further describes some of the results of FIFA’s membership process: For many teams, membership confers legitimacy and a shot at reaching the World Cup finals, a huge stage from which to wave their nation’s flag. Palestine — recognized as a “nonmember observer state” by the United Nations and a member of FIFA since 1998 — now has a national stadium near Ramallah and has attempted to qualify for four World Cup finals. Other teams,...
20 Oct Ending Book Famine and Vaccine Inequality: What a South African Court’s Decision on Copyright Law has to do with COVID-19 Vaccine Access
...distribute and acquire vaccines on their own, freed from the effective control of big IP rights holding pharmaceutical companies. This is important, because as the research by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Southern Africa, Nepal, Palestine/Israel, Thailand and Colombia has shown, COVID-19 vaccine access remains highly unequal. Much of the world remains unvaccinated while a small number of countries are now in a position to give “booster shots” despite the WHO’s condemnation. Important as universal vaccine access is it is crucial to understand the broader impacts of a...05 Feb The Italian-Dutch-Anglo-American Tradition
...at the leading liberal powers of the modern world. Which is not to deny that even paranoids have enemies; Arabs displaced from their homes in Palestine by British-sponsored Jewish colonists, like native Americans, Mexicans and Cajuns displaced by Anglo-Americans in the U.S. and Canada, surely have reasons to object to British and U.S. foreign policy quite apart from illiberalism, Anglophobia, anti-Americanism or anti-semitism. Mead is right, too, to root the liberal Anglo-American tradition in the early modern Netherlands. Here, however, I would suggest an emendation to his account. As Luciano...20 Sep Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, September 20, 2012
...fiscal crisis if foreign aid is not restored and if Israel does not ease its restrictions in the occupied West Bank. In other Palestine-related news, William Schabas points to the letter by several prominent international (criminal) law scholars addressed to the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) of the International Criminal Court urging the ASP to consider the Palestinian statehood question at its upcoming meeting in November. The African Union-led force has assumed command over troops hunting Joseph Kony and other rebel leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, but...