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28 Apr Symposium on Boyd van Dijk’s Preparing for War: Preparing for War – Demythologising the Post WWII Years and Charting the Untraveled Paths of CA3
...by the ICRC in February 1945, Dresden was being burned to ashes by Allied incendiary bombs. Equally, the drafting parties were shaping the conventions against the backdrop of the ongoing violence in Palestine, Indochina, Indonesia and Greece around 1947. Van Dijk’s challenging of this master narrative is timely, particularly when read against the backdrop of current armed conflicts in so many countries, including Ukraine, Syria, Yemen and Ethiopia. The book encourages a train of critical thought that is helpful, when reflecting on where we are, and how we got here....
19 Sep Public-Private Genocide?
...report is that she does not jettison human rights or international criminal law, but instead reworks them so that they can begin to address genocide and other serious harms as the result of a public-private partnership. One of the ways she does this is by refocusing corporate accountability efforts on how corporations’ ‘specific human rights violations may also be constitutive of more structural and systemic violations of international law’. In the case of Palestine, this means that corporate due diligence is not satisfied simply by muddying the evidentiary waters over...07 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Friday, December 7, 2012
...Jordan has visited the West Bank to congratulate Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on the UN General Assembly resolution from last week upgrading Palestine’s observer status. Hamas’ exiled leader Khaled Meshaal plans to visit the Gaza Strip for the first time in 45 years. Human Rights Watch has filed a report alleging violations of international humanitarian law by Israel in a shelling that killed 12 Palestinian civilians in last month’s clashes. Geographical Imaginations blog has a post up about the politics of drone wars. A judge in New Zealand has ordered...
04 Feb Guilty of Disloyalty to the Charter? The International Court of Justice’s Latest Advisory Opinion on Gaza
...activities of UN agencies within the OPT. This concerned the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians and in support of their right to self-determination. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNWRA, is the UN agency at the centre of this question. It has been an integral agency since its founding in 1949, and it employs tens of thousands of workers that provide education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians. Importantly, UNRWA had delivered most food, temporary shelter, and education to Gaza since October 2023. ...
21 Nov To Which Transition and Justice to Whom? Towards Recognition of Transitional Justice in Israeli Case Law
...that provides a legal framework to actions not promoting the key aims of TJ – reconciliation, and peacebuilding. The approach taken by Justice Barak-Erez, differs tremendously from the discourse around potential TJ processes in Israel and Palestine, due to the problematic categorization of victims in it. Conclusion Perhaps the terminology of TJ will play in the future a larger part in Israeli case law, both normative and descriptive, as it has played in the Sheikh Jarrah case. The way TJ was structured in the case leads to biases and misses...10 Oct 15 Years Later: A History of the Forever War and the Laws of War (Part 2 of 2)
...with the twenty years anniversary of its adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – and in light of its witnessing of forms of impunity in Vietnam and Palestine, the General Assembly accepted its so-called “Teheran Resolution,” demanding the recognition of human rights in wartime. Soon after, the UN Secretary-General published one of his famous reports, entitled “Respect for Human Rights in Armed Conflicts,” which helped to further stimulate the overall drafting process. In other words, the UN, under the strong influence of its Human Rights Division led by...07 Oct 15 Years Later: A History of the Forever War and the Laws of War (Part 1 of 2)
...effort to wage war. Clearly, this debate has a certain resonance with the ongoing controversies surrounding the tension between retribution and peace – think of the ICC’s intervention in Sudan, or that of Human Rights Watch in Colombia most recently. Strikingly, however, both experts seem to have a very selective – and problematic – understanding of the historically ambiguous, yet constantly changing relationship between the two fields of international law in wartime – jus in bello and jus ad bellum. In this post, adhering to Moyn’s call for a new...
14 Nov Doing Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements, the Dutch Way
...OPT, a small number of which she explicitly named in her July 2025 report (para. 8). As she compellingly argues, the economy of occupation in Palestine spans well beyond the settlements and encompasses a wide-ranging corporate-fueled process of displacement and replacement of the Palestinian population in the service of settler colonialism (para. 22). Relatedly, compliance by third states with the obligations identified by the ICJ in its 2024 Advisory Opinion requires more than taking measures in relation to settlements. In a resolution demanding compliance with the Advisory Opinion, the UN...
08 Jun Black Lives Matter, the USA and the UN Convention against Racial Discrimination
...ICERD. Articles 11-13 ICERD lay out the procedure, which applies to all State parties to the ICERD without the need for a declaration of consent to proceed. Such a practice was only exercised for the first time in 2018 where three inter-State communications were submitted: State of Qatar vs. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, State of Qatar vs. United Arab Emirates and State of Palestine vs. State of Israel (see here). The Committee initially decided to not take decisions due to “the legal complexity of the issues broached and a lack...
05 Apr Of Palestinian Liars and Israeli Saints: Confronting Anti-Palestinian Racism in International Law
...is for us to acknowledge that the epistemic injustice we have normalised has created conditions for the savagery Israel perpetrates today. “Dominant hearers must recognise that epistemic environments in which marginalised individuals can speak are notably few and dispersed and may constitute substandard spaces for these individuals to be heard.” The epistemic environment cultivated by international law has long been a hostile space and, judging by the ICC prosecutor’s tolerance for a mushrooming catalogue of war crimes, at least when Russia is not involved, it will remain so. In light...