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16 Jan 2024, 8:05 am
According to this line of thinking, if the attacks in Gaza were not in violation of international humanitarian law (IHL), they could not conceivably be considered illegal under the Genocide Convention. [read post]
14 Jan 2024, 11:01 am
The Secretary-General called upon all Member States defending their vessels from attacks to do so in accordance with international law. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 5:16 am
Violence including the sexual crimes committed by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attacks “constitute gross violations of international law, amounting to war crimes,” and may also be crimes against humanity, two U.N. experts said yesterday. [read post]
5 Jan 2024, 5:55 am
Given that the ICC cannot resolve general questions of international law on statehood and territorial sovereignty, the determinations helped the court to ground its analysis of its jurisdictional reach. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 8:34 pm
The resolution emphasized the application of international law, including the UN Charter and humanitarian and human rights laws, to autonomous weapons systems. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 1:58 pm
I have heard; Your Grace hath ta’en great pains to qualify His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate, And that no lawful means can carry me Out of his envy’s reach, I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm’d To suffer with a quietness of spirit The very tyranny and rage of his. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 8:15 am
Proceedings Instituted by South Africa Against Israel In the Gaza war, international legal attention has been more focused on possible Israeli violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) than on possible violations of the Genocide Convention. [read post]
3 Jan 2024, 11:31 am
” He continued, “Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure violate international humanitarian law, are unacceptable and must end now. [read post]
2 Jan 2024, 6:30 am
Globally, it could involve thorny adjustments to international law to recognize climate justifications for refugee status, or more progress toward the principles of the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees. [read post]
2 Jan 2024, 5:54 am
For example, the International Court of Justice affirmed that the prohibition on the use of force and international humanitarian law apply to all kinds of weapons, irrespective of the technology behind them. [read post]
2 Jan 2024, 4:00 am
Independent UN experts have characterised the Taliban’s severe deprivation of the rights of women and girls as “gender apartheid,” and the crime against humanity of “gender persecution” An International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of the situation in Afghanistan has been underway since 2020. [read post]
30 Dec 2023, 6:25 pm
" (Australia's Albanese paid a high price for his trip to China: Canberra no longer seems willing to stand up for rules-based international order)3. [read post]
29 Dec 2023, 10:57 am
It’s not a novel observation that international law presents an enforcement problem, but as evidence of international humanitarian law violations mounts and the international system struggles to respond, questions about the future of civilian protection, including atrocity prevention, merit heightened attention. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 4:48 am
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR — INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told reporters yesterday that Israel has the right to defend itself “but it must do that in accordance with humanitarian law. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 6:00 am
"Factors associated with health-seeking patterns among internally displaced persons in complex humanitarian emergency, Northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional study," Conflict and Health, 17: 54 (Nov. 2023) [open access]A ground breaking opportunity to increase access for registration of community groups in Dadaab (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]"How Freedom of Movement Infringes on the Right to Leave," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 22 Nov.… [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 5:03 am
“It is a humanitarian catastrophe. [read post]
7 Dec 2023, 5:55 am
The mounting evidence of persecution, rape, and killings based on ethnicity in areas under RSF control spurred a coalition of over 100 leading experts on genocide, international law, and Sudan to alert the international community to the imminent risk of genocide facing non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur. [read post]
7 Dec 2023, 4:59 am
“Under international humanitarian law, the place where you evacuate people to must, by law, have sufficient resources for their survival — medical facilities, food and water,” said James Elder, a spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund. [read post]
6 Dec 2023, 4:00 am
Given the heated circumstances, when a (brave) professor at my law school decided to host a discussion, “International Humanitarian Law in the Israel-Hamas War”, on the last day of classes before reading break, I was worried for our students. [read post]
5 Dec 2023, 6:14 am
Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism, stated that “it appears that impartial humanitarian access, an absolute and uncontested imperative of international humanitarian law, is being rhetorically and practically held hostage to the release of those same hostages” held by Hamas (in Just Security’s compendium of comments from “top law-of-war… [read post]
