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29 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, November 29, 2012
The UNGA is expected to recognize Palestine as a “non-member” state during a vote today. Following massive protests earlier this week in Cairo, the Assembly drafting the new Egyptian Constitution has vowed to publish, and vote on, a draft today. The US is considering options to intervene more strongly in the Syrian conflict, while the EU has renewed its sanctions for another three months leaving the door open for a closer involvement after March 1. China will give police in its Southern Hainan province broader powers to board and search...
23 Jun The Wagner Group’s Alleged Weaponization of Social Media in West Africa: How Sharing Degrading Content May Constitute an International Crime
has already been opened at the ICC, if the acts in question are connected, it is likely that opening a case regarding them would be more easily justified in terms of gravity. Nevertheless, the serious degradation of the victims, the severe mental suffering inflicted on those who may know they are being filmed and their families who see the footage, and the fact that similar acts have been prosecuted as war crimes on their own in domestic jurisdictions demonstrate that the gravity threshold should be met. Should the ICC decide...
02 Mar Deterring the Next Invasion: Applying the Accumulation of Events Theory to Cyberspace
...of Events Theory, or Nadelstichtaktik (needle prick). During the 1970s, Israel invoked Nadelstichtaktik to justify its bombardment of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strongholds in Lebanon as being in response to a series of small-scale attacks by the PLO. Under Israel’s theory, though each individual act of terrorism by the PLO may not have risen to the level of armed attack triggering an Article 51 right to self-defense, the sum of the combined consequences of the campaign of terrorist attacks crossed that threshold. The primary thrust of this theory is that...
31 Aug Symposium: Saving Critical International Legal Pedagogy from Formalists, Reactionaries, and Pandemics
...Robert A. Williams Jr.’s quip is biting: “They are law professors, after all, so they don’t listen to other people’s stories.” But the diagnosis of the three scholars in this section is more insidious, still. In this age of virtual lecturing, asynchronous recordings, casualisation, surveillance, and punishment, critical legal scholars are at risk. We are, to borrow a fitting adage, handing them the rope with which to hang us. Brendan Ciarán Browne exploits his ‘above-the-bar’ privilege to elicit awareness of the dangers of teaching about Palestine in the virtual lecture...
17 Jul Symposium on PMSCs: Ukraine’s New Bill on PMSCs – A Possible Pandora’s Box for Operations Abroad?
...arms market and military training to non-state actors aligned with their interests, showing a low-key but steady rise in Africa. In the Middle East, the US-based PMSC UG Solutions has reportedly been operating in Palestine to manage checkpoints in the Gaza strip, operating in a major volatile environment. Threats posed by PMSC operations are often difficult to define, as each region has its own distinctive features, and Ukraine is no exception. The country’s Draft Law on PMSCs was developed in the context of the crime of aggression committed by the...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,...