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19 May Events and Announcements: 19 May 2024
...be hosting two leading UN experts to address the urgent and evolving child rights crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel: Ann Skelton (Chairperson, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child) and Farida Shaheed (UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education). Both the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education have engaged extensively with the child rights issues raised by the Israel-Palestine conflict. This seminar is a unique opportunity to get their perspectives on the challenges...
15 Nov Symposium on Erin Pobjie’s Prohibited Force: The Meaning of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter
...Territory, including East Jerusalem. The Court found that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory violated the prohibition of forcible acquisition of territory – described as a corollary of the prohibition of the use of force – without determining that Palestine is a State. As Mikanagi notes, ‘[t]here is ambiguity in the term [] “corollary”’ as used by the ICJ. His application of type theory to determine what constitutes acquisition of territory by force is thought-provoking. While I will not delve deeper here, I agree that ‘there is, at...18 Mar Weekend Roundup: March 11-17, 2019
Kevin kicked off the week with a post about Jean-Pierre Bemba’s claim against the ICC for €70 million following his final acquittal. While Kevin was skeptical about the merits of Bemba’s compensation claim for €22 million based on his decade of wrongful detention, Kevin was more optimistic about the success Bemba’s spoliation claim for €42.4 million resulting from the ICC’s negligent management of his frozen assets. Kevin continued his commentary with a post on the ramifications of the Philippines’ withdrawal from the Rome Statute on the OTP’s preliminary examination. Steven...24 Jun A Brief Note on Arrest Warrants and Summonses at the ICC
Note: I serve as Special Adviser to the ICC Prosecutor on War Crimes. Twitter is awash with commentary about tweets issued by the Registry that explain the difference between arrest warrants and summonses. Many people have speculated that perhaps the tweets are related to the Palestine situation. Any such speculation is unwarranted, as the tweets are part of a long-scheduled series explaining how the ICC works and are not connected to any situation or any specific judicial development. Given the speculation, however, it is worth explaining how arrest warrants and...
13 Dec The Prohibition against Genocide: Hollow Rhetoric or Pathway to Accountability?
...in occupied Palestine before the ICJ. Notwithstanding the outcome of this pending Opinion, does a request for provisional measures aimed at mitigating the irreparable harm inherent in the very allegation of a genocide offer a more substantive interlocutory solution for the affected Palestinians? The singularly unique facet of Gambia’s standing before the ICJ, successfully proved, was based on the assertion that the prohibition against genocide as enshrined in the Genocide Convention was an erga omnes partes obligation, hence giving locus standi to all states party to the Convention to bring...22 Nov Overcoming the Veto to Save Lives
[Mona Ali Khalil is an internationally recognized public international lawyer with 25 years of UN and other experience dealing with the rule of law and international peace and security efforts including peacekeeping, sanctions, disarmament and counterterrorism.] In the face of a veto by any permanent member of the UN Security Council blocking enforcement action against the mass atrocities in Palestine, Myanmar, Syria and Yemen and elsewhere, is the international community helpless to help – failing to fulfill its responsibility to protect? Proponents of the use of force for purposes of...04 May On the Legality of the Russian Vetoes in the UN Security Council and the Harsh Reality of International Law: A Rejoinder to Professor Jennifer Trahan
...international law in places such as Hungary (1956), Egypt (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), Afghanistan (1978-1989), Iran (1980-1988), Iraq (2003), Palestine (since 1948), etc. That is why I believe that in dealing with the Syrian civil war, the Security Council operated exactly as it was intended to function. It prioritized the strategic interests of a Great Power – Russia – over the human costs of war. This is because the Security Council is not a global law enforcer. It is not an international 911 dispatcher. Nor is it a collective security mechanism...