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25 Nov Misreading Human Rights Due Diligence: A Response to Tara Van Ho
[Anne Herzberg is the Legal Advisor of NGO Monitor and the UN Representative for the Institute for NGO Research.] On November 2, 2021, Tara Van Ho, Senior Lecturer at Essex University, posted “The Unexpected Trade and Business Implications of Israel’s Attack on Al Haq” at Opinio Juris. In the piece, Van Ho condemns Israel’s designation of six Palestinian NGOs for their alleged affiliations with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in particular the designation of Palestinian NGO Al Haq, which she characterizes as the “leading business and...12 May Events and Announcements: 12 May 2024
...accessible via this link, with the registration form already open here (registrations close on the 6 th of June). For more information, please consult the webpage of the conference or reach out to the organizers, who will assist you with any questions you may have. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Recent developments at the ICJ : On 15 May 2024; 14:30 – 18:00 (BST), the University of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Centre will be hosting an event exploring recent developments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in relation to the Israel-Palestine conflict. During this event,...21 May Annexation in the Shadow of the Law—Part II
...Palestinians, it is far from clear that it is being abandoned in favor of a non-ethnic “State of all its citizens” rather than a national Palestinian State in all of Mandatory Palestine. (And the same could be said, conversely, and with even more force, about the decline in support for two states among Jewish Israelis.) Moreover, any decision to abandon the decades-long dream of Palestinian self-determination should be made through some kind of democratic process by Palestinians themselves – not by a unilateral Israeli act of annexation or by reliance...08 May Guest Post: French Companies May Build in the West Bank — An Assessment of the Versailles Court of Appeals Case
...to the general concession contract. A pro-Palestinian group, Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS), filed a lawsuit against Alstom Transport in 2007 in a French lower court (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre); another pro-Palestinian organization, l’Organisation de Libération de la Palestine (OLP), later joined the lawsuit as co-plaintiff. Plaintiffs argued that the French court should void Alstom’s construction contracts, because the general concession contract’s (between Citypass and Israel) object or purpose (“cause” in French) was illicit (because the State of Israel’s true motivation in the construction project was the continuance...
30 Aug The Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety: A Gross Violation of the ICCPR
...ratified the ICCPR, and Article 51(c) of the Constitution of India puts an obligation on the Government to “foster respect for international law and treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with one another”. This piece analyses the incompatibility of the PSA with the provisions of the ICCPR. It also argues that though India has made a reservation to Article 9 of the ICCPR for the purpose of preventive detentions, its acts undermine the object and purpose of the ICCPR and hence constitute a violation of its obligations. Shortly...11 Jun Events and Announcements: 11 June 2023
...book. The event will be held mainly online (Zoom). Additionally, participants are welcome (self-funding) to attend the conference onsite (Oslo). For more information, click here. Events 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), Dr Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster), and Dr Munir Nuseibah (Al-Quds University). To learn more and to register,...
27 Dec Access to Freshwater and Accountability Issues in the Israel-Hamas Armed Conflict
...The Office of the Prosecutor has thus the authority to investigate alleged violations committed by all parties involved in the armed conflict, including both Hamas and Israel. In fact, since 2021, the ICC has been already investigating the alleged crimes committed in Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem (see the decision of the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber here). This signifies a significant legal avenue for addressing potential serious violations of IHL, particularly in cases where the involved parties fail to ensure accountability. In addition, in situations where allegations of grave breaches...
16 Jun Baldassi and Others v. France: Criminal Convictions of BDS Activists Violate Freedom of Expression under the European Convention on Human Rights
...of the Case The applicants are eleven members of the ‘Palestine 68 Collective’, a French organization supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. The movement was founded on July 9, 2005 as a response from Palestinian non-governmental organizations to the Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Israel’s Construction of a Wall delivered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the year before. According to the ICJ, the Wall and the regime of de facto annexation it created was contrary to international law, and in particular international humanitarian law, international human...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....