January 12, 2024 South African justice minister Ronald Lamola led a top legal team to argue the country’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 11 January. South Africa argues that Israel’s indiscriminate retaliatory bombing and siege of Gaza contravenes the Genocide Convention. More than 23,000 Palestinians, including at least 10,000 children, …
Read More »AN OPEN LETTER TO THE AFRICAN UNION (AU) DEMANDING DECISIVE STANCE TO OPPOSE PROLIFERATION OF APARTHEID VIA SETTLER COLONIALISM
Febuary 18, 2020 Dr Mustafa Mheta I am an interdisciplinary researcher and writer. I am writing this letter about yet another great Western imperialist crime and atrocity against yet another Third World country, Palestine, which is one of the most important observer members of the African Union (AU). It is …
Read More »US Foreign Policy poses the severest threat to the American people and world peace – An international law perspective on the extrajudicial killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani
Feb 3, 2020 Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel* The United States president announced in the aftermath of a carefully planned and orchestrated drone strike which killed Iran’s Major General Qasem Soleimani. Fatalities included deputy commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), Abu Mehdi. Widely reported in the media was the attack …
Read More »America’s Complicated Relationship with International Human Rights Norms
The U.S. has long had a love-hate relationship with international norms, having taken the lead in forging landmark human rights agreements while brushing off complaints over its own abuses, Nat Parry explains. By Nat Parry American exceptionalism – the notion that the United States is unique among nations due to …
Read More »General Resolution Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Against Imperialist War and NATO
(Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos Contra la Guerra Imperialista y la OTAN, TPPCGIO) INTRODUCTION The TPPCGIO held its first ordinary session in Madrid on November 6-8, 2015. More than 70 participants registered and four panels covered the following issues: NATO, the media, refugees and low-intensity conflicts. These groups worked on …
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