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This Week @UN: Delaying gaps in crime of aggression; a UN project the US didn’t defund; humanitarians want crisis planning. Plus: South Sudan airdrops; Afghanistan apartheid; fuel for Gaza; US sanctions; 2-state solution session; Russia-UN MoU dies. Thanks for sharing …
- Arthur Bassas
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A special session related to the International Criminal Court opened with one minute of silence to honor victims of the crime of aggression and a proposal that could have expanded their legal protection. But after days of rigorous negotiations held …
- Damilola Banjo
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The Human Rights Council opened its summer session in Geneva on Monday. Once again, nations will turn their attention to the rights of women, migrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQI and other marginalized groups. But even for a body accustomed to crises, …
South Africa’s flow of coal exports to Israel has continued in record numbers amid the Gaza war, despite South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice. The coal helps fuel Israel’s AI operations to identify …
- Damilola Banjo
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- Damilola Banjo
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One of the first things Latvian Minister of Justice Inese Libina-Egnere will tell you is that she is a lawyer and not a diplomat. For a journalist interviewing her, that is a sigh of relief. Indeed, in an interview at …
- Dulcie Leimbach
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YEREVAN, Armenia — The International Criminal Court’s first prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, is best known for prosecuting national criminals like the ex-Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir. A 2022 movie about Moreno Ocampo’s work in Argentina prosecuting former junta leaders was nominated …
- Joe Penney
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Five years ago, students at Fiji’s University of the South Pacific engaged in a “learn-by-doing” exercise in an international environmental law course. They were challenged with conjuring the most progressive environmental policies they could imagine. A core group of students …
- Arthur Bassas
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Switzerland will highlight the longstanding women, peace and security resolution as chair of the United Nations Security Council in October to remind member states of their commitment to the landmark agenda item. Its main goal is to ensure the equal …
- Damilola Banjo
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Fossil fuels v. plastic waste; “human security”; Minusca promotion. Plus: Trump; FGM in Gambia; Gaza; Bangladesh; World Court on Israel/Palestine; Sudan. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn • Our giving pitch to …
- Arthur Bassas
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On the afternoon of May 5, 2019, a young Syrian man was accompanying his older brother to Kafr Nabl Surgical Hospital, in the northern Syrian province of Idlib. The older brother had a weak heart and needed a pacemaker; he …
For more than a decade, Mohammad Ajjour helped Palestinian couples in Gaza facing infertility to achieve their dreams of parenthood. But in a single missile attack launched by an Israeli tank in December 2023, the Al Basma IVF center was …
- Dawn Clancy
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Less than a week after the Rwandan genocide of 1994 was marked in a somber, candelit ceremony in the United Nations General Assembly Hall, the creation of an international day to commemorate a genocide that happened in Europe in 1995 …
- Dulcie Leimbach
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BANJUL — Gambia, a tiny country of 2.6 million tightly knit people, located right in the middle of Senegal in West Africa, is still struggling to recover from the brutal 22-year authoritarian reign of Yahya Jammeh. He was the longtime …
- Damilola Banjo
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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 …
- Darsen Hover
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