International Justice
- Darsen Hover
- • March 18, 2024
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Did Palestine ever have a chance to gain its full rights as a state? In his new book, “The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity,” Ardi Imseis delves into …
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • March 7, 2024
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts that he single-handedly blocked a Palestinian State from becoming a reality even though it is recognized by more than 130 countries and enjoys the status of an Observer State in the United Nations. In his 16 years …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • February 23, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Savoring the UN Charter; aid cuts harm women; prosecuting Putin. Plus: Russia-Ukraine war; US veto; Gaza; South Sudan; Houthis Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn Our top story this week: Aid Cuts Are …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • February 21, 2024
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As the United Nations marks the second year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine this week, big-power politics are still blocking the creation of an international special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression by Russia’s top leaders for their …
- Categories: General Assembly, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • January 27, 2024
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In a speech on Dec. 4, 1997, commemorating the International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People, Nelson Mandela celebrated the end of apartheid in South Africa and assured his audience that he and his fellow South Africans “know too …
- Categories: International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, OPINIONS
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 26, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Azerbaijan to lead COP29; Gaza’s garbage pileup; US envoy loves Liberia. Plus: UN Security Council meeting on ICJ ruling; Yemen, Haiti, Gaza. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our most-read story of …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 12, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Remember Nikki Haley?; Summit of the Future; South Africa’s genocide case; interviewing the General Assembly president. Plus: Somalia, Cabo Verde, Yemen and Gaza. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn • As a nonprofit media site, PassBlue relies on …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 10, 2024
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The Genocide Convention was codified in 1948 in response to the atrocities committed against Jewish people and others during World War II. Seventy-five years later, predominately Jewish Israel is facing the International Court of Justice on allegations of intent to …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • January 9, 2024
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Pramila Patten, the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict, is reportedly going to Israel at the end of January. She was invited by the government to visit the country more than a month ago to hear first-hand …
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice
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- Dawn Clancy
- • December 4, 2023
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- Categories: International Justice, LGBT, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Hasmik Egian and Mouin Rabbani
- • November 28, 2023
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Karim Khan’s unprecedented politicization of the International Criminal Court since assuming the role of Prosecutor in June 2021 has significantly eroded the credibility of the Court just as he should be taking serious steps to address its declining legitimacy. Khan …
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Arthur Bassas
- • October 3, 2023
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Although people across the world maintain faith in democracy, “that faith is running on fumes” for younger generations, a new survey found, published by the Open Society Foundations, which focuses on justice, human rights and democratic governance. Launched in September, …
- Categories: Governance, Human Rights, International Justice, Poverty
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- Anastasiia Carrier and Dawn Clancy
- • September 23, 2023
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Russia Blames the West, an ‘Empire of Lies,’ for All Global Ills —Â Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used his speech on Saturday, toward the end of the United Nations General Assembly’s annual debate, to recite many of the Kremlin’s …
- Categories: General Assembly, International Justice, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Clair MacDougall
- • August 21, 2023
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MONROVIA, Liberia — Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee stood behind a wooden podium in a cramped conference room and recounted her narrow escape from one of the worst massacres in Liberia’s civil war, a devastating conflict that ended 20 years …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, International Justice
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 26, 2023
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This week, the UN boss told the world’s richest countries, meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, that the Security Council and the Bretton Woods financial system both need reforming. Were they listening? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues …
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