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07 Oct

...an unnamed senior leader in the context of arrest warrants being requested for Israeli leaders that “this court is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin.” Of course, the fact that the ICC ultimately did proceed to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant demonstrates that occasionally the wheels of justice move forward even in the face of resistance from key players in the West. Doing so, however, can come with a heavy price for those involved (see here, here and here regarding US sanctions on ICC...
07.10.25 | |

29 Oct

...pictures of restricted Israeli areas. Iran also claims that it has developed much more advanced drone technology than the Iranian drone launched by Hezbollah and shot down by Israeli forces earlier this month. EU governments are set to debate spending cuts of 50 billion euro later this week. A recent poll showed that an overwhelming majority of Catalans would like a referendum on independence from Spain. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is going ahead with his plan of seeking upgraded observer status for Palestine in the UN General Assembly next month....
29.10.12 | |

26 Apr

...pressure from the ICRC and France (and given the absence of supporters of the arch-occupier paradigm in the Conference), rather than blocking the debate, the UK “started thinking about how to use it for its own purposes while attenuating its effects on Britain’s interests in the context of growing East-West tensions and the violent insurgency in Palestine” (p. 75). In order to achieve progress, the ICRC, in turn, sought to balance these concerns with the human rights demands of Nazi victims. The result was a draft that incorporated “only a...
26.04.22 | |

06 Apr

...could better hold us legally liable if we went public with information about wrongdoing we perceived to be in the public interest. Finally, the consequences speak for themselves: Dr. Azarova has still lost her job; I as a person of colour have lost my job in order to truthfully bring details of this incident to light; Palestinian rights and international law with respect to the Israel/Palestine situation are now demonstrably a taboo subject in the law school; and the powerful white men who are at the heart of this impropriety...
06.04.21 | |

03 Oct

...scholar, he railed against the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, against zionist ethno-chauvinism, and against domination more widely; likewise, as a professor of literature, he rallied against cognitive and ideological obfuscations. Said was particularly disdainful of mercenary intellectuals—those who followed the herd and commodified their intellectual work in exchange for status, influence, or invitations to boards, consultancies, and other baubles. By contrast, he valued intellectuals who acted as “insurgents”, characters who not only critique existing systems of power but who are courageous enough to use their knowledge to destabilise them...
03.10.24 | |

11 Jun

[Jérôme de Hemptinne is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University] Several posts have been devoted to the delicate question of whether Western States could be implicated in an international armed conflict (IAC) against Russia because of the military, financial, and intelligence support they provide to Ukrainian authorities (see here, here, here, and here). The same question could also be raised regarding the assistance furnished by the United States and some European States to Israel: could this make these States ipso facto parties to an IAC between Israel and Palestine –...
11.06.24 | |

28 Jan

...voices of those affected by atrocities. From Palestine, to Afghanistan, to Sudan, and Ukraine, activists have been under attack, forced into exile. Women human rights defenders are silenced, criminalized, or erased from public life. Expecting these groups to obtain or maintain formal registration, let alone ECOSOC accreditation, under such conditions ignores the realities of repression and displacement. The treaty can be a statement against the global regression of human rights and the growing gender backlash. For that to happen, the global community must have trust in the process and be...
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04 May

...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...
04.05.18 | |

08 Jan

A U.S. drone strike killed eight people in northwestern Pakistan, the latest in a series of drone attacks that come as a retired U.S. general Stanley McChrystal warns their overuse may threaten American foreign policy goals. The trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic resumed in The Hague on Monday. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked that government-issued documents, such as passports, include the words “State of Palestine” instead of “Palestinian Authority,” though there will be no rush to replace ID cards or passports to avoid confrontation with Israel....
08.01.13 | |

14 Jun

[Fred Abrahams covered the Kosovo conflict for Human Rights Watch . He wrote the book Modern Albania and co-wrote A Village Destroyed: War Crimes in Kosovo . Marija Ristic covered Serbian war crimes trials as a journalist for local and international media.] This April, a modest courtroom in Belgrade, Serbia, offered a lens into the global debate on justice for atrocity crimes. The case dealt with mass killings in Kosovo committed 25 years ago but the topic has relevance for Sudan, Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and other conflicts today. In the dimly...
14.06.24 | and |

12 Apr

...Court. The Prosecutor of the ICC is solely responsible for the selection of situations (subject perhaps to some measure of intervention by the Pre-Trial Chamber, a matter still being adjudicated). She or he takes the decision whether to investigate and prosecute in Palestine or Afghanistan, in Ukraine or Côte d’Ivoire, in Colombia or Venezuela, in Uganda or Myanmar. She or he alone determines whether those being prosecuted are military commanders, political leaders, religious personalities, industrialists, leaders or lackeys. Even the earlier prosecutors, like Jackson, Goldstone and Arbour, never had to...
12.04.20 | |

01 Oct

...perpetrators’ perception (meaning who the perpetrator intended to target), or (2) based on the victims’ membership in the targeted group “in fact.” The first option requires “subjective criteria” and underscores that categories such as gender and race are social constructs. What is relevant under this option is that perpetrators targeted the victim because they believed the victim was a member of the targeted group.  International and domestic jurisprudence and the ICC Policy Paper on the Crime of Gender Persecution affirm this understanding of “groups” under persecution. Taking language from the...
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