PRESS RELEASE: the
#ICJ
will deliver its Order on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
this Friday, 26 January 2024, at 1 p.m. (The Hague). Watch live on
@UNWebTV
WATCH: International law professor Francis Boyle discusses the implications of this week's ICJ order, the cutoff of funds to UNRWA, the Biden admin's legal complicity under both international & US law, and how this might play out in the UN Security Council and General Assembly
In Gaza, a new international crime - educaricide or the killing of learning - needs to be added to be list of crimes under international law when schools and universities are systematically destroyed, resulting in generational damage to societies.
Countries now suspending funding for UNRWA are likely in violation of their own obligations under the Genocide Conv (and other int'l law).
@CIJ_ICJ
found that enabling basic services and humanitarian assistance in Gaza was necessary to prevent genocide, and UNRWA is key to both.
PRESS RELEASE: the
#ICJ
delivered its Advisory Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem
This is horrific. But do the states cutting off funds realize that every Palestinian will now be entitled to refugee rights •in their territory• without even need to undergo status assessment (ipso facto per Art 1D of Refugee Convention)?
@CIJ_ICJ
If UNRWA staff participated in the abhorrent crimes on 7 October, they must be punished like any other perpetrator. But they are 12 out of 30000 staff. As long as there is no evidence of an involvement of UNRWA itself, cutting funding to the agency seems punitive and unjustified.
1/16
Speech by the Permanent Representative of
#Algeria
🇩🇿 to the
#United_Nations
in New York, to the
#Security_Council
:
Our meeting comes as the aggression against the Palestinian people 🇵🇸 is approaching its fifth month
11 January 2023 - ICJ, The Hague
Watching African women & men fighting to save humanity & the int'l legal system against the ruthless attacks supported/enabled by most of the West will remain one of the defining images of our time. This will make history whatever happens.
NEWS: South Africa today filed an urgent request for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of the
#ICJ
’s Order of 26 January 2024 and decision of 16 February 2024 in the case
#South
Africa v.
#Israel
PRESS RELEASE: the
#ICJ
issues its decision on South Africa’s request for additional provisional measures in the case of Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
)
‼️‼️BREAKING: New Genocide Case against Germany
#Nicaragua
today filed an application at the
@CIJ_ICJ
against
#Germany
concerning violations of the Genocide Convention, the Geneva Conventions and its Additional Protocols, intransgressible principles of international
We cannot abandon the people of
#Gaza
Decisions by various Member States to pause funds for
#UNRWA
will have catastrophic consequences for the 2.2 million people of Gaza.
We appeal for these decisions to be reconsidered.
#IASC
statement 👉
News report suggesting ICJ order in
#SouthAfrica
case v
#Israel
may be imminent Government expects ICJ judgment in genocide case against Israel on Friday | News24
COMMUNIQUÉ: la
#CIJ
indique des mesures conservatoires additionnelles suite à la demande de l'Afrique du Sud du 6 mars 2024 en l’aff.
#AfriqueduSud
c.
#Israel
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
#UNCRC
delivers its strongest statement. Gaza: Halt the war now to save children from dying of imminent famine.
#childrensrights
@lexpsy
PRESS RELEASE: South Africa submits an urgent request for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of previous provisional measures indicated by the
#ICJ
in the case
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
Nicaragua taking Germany, Canada, UK, Netherlands to
@CIJ_ICJ
for genocide “
#Nicaragua
urged the 4 states to imm. cease provision of arms,munitions, & technologies to "Israel" bc it might use them to commit violations of the
#Genocide
Con. in
#Gaza
.”
BREAKING: RULING ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN ICJ CASE AGAINST ISRAEL EXPECTED WITHIN A WEEK
This is according to members of the South African Advisory Group before International Justice.
New UN Human Rights Council resolution calls on all countries not to transfer weapons, ammunition and military equipment to Israel, to prevent further violations of international humanitarian law
Today, the State of Palestine, and upon instructions of the Palestinian leadership, sent a letter the Secretary General requesting renewed consideration to Membership application
@pmofa
@antonioguterres
#Palestine
@UN
Open Letter from over 75 international legal scholars calling on🇦🇺govt to take urgent action to avoid the risk of being complicit in violations of the Genocide Convention after
@CIJ_ICJ
ruling on Israel's military operations in Gaza
@OverlandJournal
It is enviable that international law is POPULISED in this way.
But in Japan, too, civil society lobbied for it, and it was being delivered online with simultaneous interpretation in Japanese! Isn't it amazing?
READ HERE: full text of the
#ICJ
Judgment in the case of the Application of the Int'l Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and of the Int'l Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (
#Ukraine
v.
#Russia
)
"If funding remains suspended, we will most likely be forced to shut down our operations by end of February”
@UNLazzarini
🚨 STATEMENT📍
#GazaStrip
: Humanitarian crisis deepens at a time funding suspensions put
@UNRWA
aid operations in peril ⬇️
NEWS: on 12 February 2024, South Africa submitted an “urgent request for additional measures under Article 75 (1)” of the Rules of Court in connection with the “developing circumstances in Rafah” in the case
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
before the
#ICJ
Call by Belgian international law professors asking Belgium to intervene in the ICJ proceedings related to the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel)
@Dimitri_VdM
WATCH LIVE: South Africa opens the oral argument on its request of 10 May 2024 for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of provisional measures previously prescribed by the Court in the case
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
PRESS RELEASE:
#Nicaragua
requests permission to intervene in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
) under Article 62 of the
#ICJ
Statute