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18 May Qatar v UAE: Uncharted Territory at the ICJ
...Qatar refutes the interpretation of Article 22 of CERD, i.e. that there is a linear progression in terms of dispute resolution. Qatar also asserts that the argument of contradictory outcomes is speculative, and the UAE misunderstands the role of the CERD committee or a conciliation commission, in that no decision will be legally binding. (See 8 May hearings verbatim record, p. 17 – 36) A few points to highlight: The complaint by Qatar before the CERD Committee was the first inter-state communication filed by a state at CERD. Palestine has...17 Mar UN Watch Update: The Human Rights Council, Week 1
...her mission had gone to Palestine, “I imagine that the discussion here would be amazingly different.” Regarding the challenges to the credibility of the report, she told Council members that the issue on credibility is “not about ours, it’s about yours.” (Williams begins speaking at 5:35). UN Watch addressed the Council on Friday afternoon: “If the Council cannot endorse the recommendations of this report, it will cast a shadow upon the reputation of the UN as a whole…” Watch our UN speech. Singling Out Israel Special Agenda Item Returning: The...09 May Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, May 9, 2013
...are posed for clashes and unrest. The oldest brother of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has said he was beaten up by what he calls government-hired thugs. The UN Conference on Trade and Development has decried the rising levels of poverty in East Jerusalem, blaming what it terms Israeli “segregation policies” for deepened economic isolation for Palestinians. The full report can be found here. US Secretary of State, John Kerry, is pushing for renewed talks between Israel and Palestine ahead of his next visit to the middle east in two weeks....27 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Australia will abstain in the upcoming UN vote on whether to grant non-member state status to Palestine. The body of Yasser Arafat will be exhumed in Ramallah today, to determine whether his death was the result of polonium poisoning. Ehud Barak, Israel’s Minister of Defence, has announced his retirement from politics. A map of China on new Chinese passports is controversial with its neighbours as it incorporates disputed areas in the South China Sea. Several neighbours are refusing to stamp the passports or are stamping them with their own version...12 Feb The Shift from Proportionality to Necessity and an Indirect Comment on Gaby Blum’s Article
...one hand, and targeted killing directed against terrorist suspects, on the other. In the former case, I do not believe that we can or should move away from homogenous status of combatant; any other standard will overreach the technology now or in the foreseeable future. I suppose that one could imagine that in the very special circumstances of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, one could see on both the sides of regular soldiers and non-state actors, it would be possible to imagine a genuinely necessity based standard, beyond the fact of status....
07 Apr The Growing Imperative to Recognize and Codify Gender Apartheid: Demonstrating the Need and Responding to Critics (Part II)
...efforts, including efforts to criminalize gender apartheid under national jurisdictions and collaborating normative development, including through soft law approaches. Legal proceedings also offer an opportunity to both build recognition of the crime as well as deliver justice for gender-based violations and crimes, including at the ICC and ICJ. The International Criminal Court’s (‘ICC’) announcement on the application for arrest warrants for senior members of the Taliban for gender-based persecution and any subsequent proceedings could help to draw significant attention to the ongoing institutionalized system of gender apartheid under the Taliban-controlled...
21 Dec The Forcible Transfer of Civilians in Gaza: Conditions, Necessity and Legality
...Although the fulfilment of this obligation comes as a second step after ensuring the safe passage and safety of the evacuees, this obligation does not appear to have been met either. Third, the evacuation of the civilian population must be carried out within the occupied territory. Israel is internationally recognized as the occupying power in Palestine – the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip (See UNGA, A/ES-10/L.25, para. 5, ICRC). The UNGA has rejected any Israeli attempts to forcibly transfer the Palestinian civilian population as Israel has...07 Sep Events and Announcements: September 7, 2014
Call for papers The Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Columbia Law School invite the submission of written proposals for an international conference on the international law legacies of the Palestine mandate, to be held in Jerusalem on June 21-22, 2015, and for a subsequent publication. The full call for papers can be found here. Researchers interested in addressing these and related questions are invited to respond to this call for papers with a 1-2 page proposal for an article and presentation, along with a...04 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, April 4, 2013
...on a man convicted of paralyzing a friend in an attack 10 years ago. In a significant step forward, the 49-strong group of Least Developed Countries has announced that they are willing to take on binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions A human rights group report alleges that Sudan officials have been committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of torture in the border area near South Sudan since 2011. An exchange of fire between Israel and Palestine threatens the Gaza ceasefire from last November. Israeli troops have...
08 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza Symposium: The Palestinian Genocide and the Colonial Core of International Law
...peoples. Colonial genocides have been committed in the global geography of the colonized world. Colonial genocides are not the make of states against minorities. By contrast, empires, colonial companies, and occupying states or settler colonial states have perpetrated colonial genocides against indigenous peoples. We can count among them the colonial genocide in Palestine. As it has happened for the past five centuries, the Palestinian Genocide shows that European settler colonialism continues to perform one of its historical tasks: genocide. Empires and former empires like the US, the UK, and France...