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27 May

...pursue justice at all costs for the victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – to be fair, there have been sporadic calls for movement, but these have been few and far between and not nearly as vociferous as the calls for justice for the victims where the not so powerful are implicated. In respect of the situation in Palestine, legal technical arguments about doubts concerning the statehood of Palestine are able to considerably slow down movement. In that conflict, as is the case in other situations that may implicate the powerful...
27.05.20 | |

24 Oct

Introduction Of all the questions I’ve been asked concerning the latest round of violence in the Israel/Palestine situation, the most common is whether Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to the war crime of collective punishment. Because of my role as a Special Advisor to the ICC Prosecutor, it would be inappropriate for me to address that question; there is, of course, an open OTP investigation into the situation in Palestine. But I thought it might be useful to provide readers with a short history of the war crime itself, because...
24.10.23 | |

11 Oct

...institutions. Suspension of arms trade is either not considered, or considered too late and at an insufficient scale. The larger question of international trade remains off-topic. Deploying a contrario reasoning, resistance movements regard trade as a potential intervention against states constantly exerting violent control and routinely killing people. Israeli violence in Palestine has also provoked the pursuit of trade as a resistance strategy in the form of a boycott (which has been running at different levels and degrees). For instance, many people avoid using products and companies supportive of the...
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12 May

...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,...
12.05.24 | |

23 May

...veto on Syria. This prevented the referral of Syria to the ICC in May 2014 as well as the adoption of numerous resolutions calling for cease fires and delivery of humanitarian aid. On Myanmar, China’s threatened veto blocked not only a referral of Myanmar to the ICC, but even Security Council debate over an arms embargo and sanctions following the upsurge of the ethnic cleansing campaign there in August 2017. For Myanmar this has left the ICC, intended to be the centerpiece of a “system” of international justice, restricted to...
23.05.22 | and |

05 Sep

...international law Palestine has the right to resist militarily based on its right to self-determination—both in its quest for statehood and in opposing Israeli military occupation, as recently confirmed by the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Policies and Practices of Israel in the OPT – then Hamas leaders might be considered to enjoy elevated rights under international law, possibly even an informal right to immunity. Although the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is internationally recognized as the representative of the Palestinian people, it is Hamas that actually conducts trials ‘on the...
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11 Apr

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,...
11.04.21 | |

01 Nov

...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...
01.11.24 | and |

07 May

[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....
07.05.24 | |

06 Dec

...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...
06.12.20 | |

06 Sep

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...
06.09.12 | |

04 Jun

...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....
04.06.23 | |