28 March 2024 | International Court of Justice (ICJ), Key Documents & Letters
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, representing the State of Palestine, announced on 28 March 2024 its intention to intervene in South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel for violations of the Genocide Convention. Palestine also thanked Belgium and Ireland for also filing interventions, and called on all State Parties who are signatories to the Genocide Convention to do the same.
28 March 2024 | Key Documents & Letters
Annelle Sheline, PhD, served for a year as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
20 March 2024 | Key Documents & Letters
Excellent document from the #CrimesByIsrael project that tracks violations of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Fourth Geneva Convention, Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, and Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
18 March 2024 | Featured, Key Documents & Letters
On 15 March 2024, OXFAM International released a 26-page briefing paper, “Inflicting Unprecedented Suffering and Destruction: Seven ways the government of Israel is deliberately blocking and/or undermining the international humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip”, to outline how Israel blocks and undermines international humanitarian aid to Gaza.
7 March 2024 | International Actions, Key Documents & Letters, Notable Events
“You know, as we manage challenges at home, we’re also managing crises abroad, including in the Middle East. I know the last five months have been gut-wrenching for so many people, for the Israeli people, for the Palestinian people and so many here in America…”
1 March 2024 | International Actions, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Key Documents & Letters
THE HAGUE, 1 March 2024. Nicaragua today filed an Application instituting proceedings against Germany before the International Court of Justice for alleged violations by Germany of its obligations deriving from the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the “Genocide Convention”), the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, “intransgressible principles of international humanitarian law” and other norms of general international law in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly the Gaza Strip.
