International law and accountability lacking when it comes to Israel
CHRIS DOYLE February 13, 2023 A hundred days after the Nov. 1 election in Israel that led to the formation of the most far-right extremist coalition in the country’s history, […]
Ukraine crisis underscores need for equitable multilateralism
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG April 06, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/gjxue During the UN Security Council debate on Ukraine on Tuesday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky exhorted the council’s members to act, […]
Legalization of West Bank outposts makes a mockery of peace and law
YOSSI MEKELBERG February 22, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/p8c86 Former Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit was on the receiving end of a great deal of criticism for much of his tenure. […]
The mission to civilise (colonial) international law
OPINIONOPINION, Opinions A legal architecture built to buttress the colonial world order, international law continues to be weaponised against the dispossessed to this day. Azeezah Kanji Legal academic and writer […]
The told story of Israel’s infinite occupation
BY NAJLA M. SHAHWAN DEC 03, 2021 – 12:05 AM GMT+3A view shows the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine, Oct. 27, 2021. (Reuters […]
The role of the BBC in the state-sponsored persecution of Julian Assange. Part 1
Assange / Human Rights / September 2021 issue by The Indicteron September 28, 2021 By Nina Cross, Acting chief-editor of The Indicter Magazine This is the first of two articles analysing the role of the BBC […]
China: Draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity
© Molly Crabapp 10 June 2021 Hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority men and women subjected to mass internment and torture Millions of Muslims subjected to systematized mass surveillance Muslim […]
ICRC urges countries to reclaim citizens from Syria camps
Peter Maurer Short Url https://arab.news/2h6tc UN rights experts, in an appeal last month, urged 57 states to repatriate nearly 10,000 of their citizens held in the camps in “sub-human” conditions […]
Palestinians winning the legitimacy war
RAMZY BAROUD October 06, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/5yzan U.N Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestine Richard Falk at U.N. European headquarters, Geneva, March 21, 2014. (Reuters) One of the […]
Northern Syria administration calls for tribunal for Islamic State detainees
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON MARCH 25, 2019 BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Kurdish-led administration that runs much of northern Syria called on Monday for an international tribunal to be […]
How international law could be used to prosecute Khashoggi’s killers
Saudi may think that it can rely on diplomatic immunity, but the Vienna Convention doesn’t in reality allow such stretching of the law. This is what the UK, Turkey and […]
International Law : The Banality of Crimes against Migrants
Around the world, migrants are locked up in camps, abused and often driven to the brink of starvation. Many die as a result. These crimes should finally be punished, by the International Criminal Court. A Guest Editorial by Ioannis Kalpouzos and Itamar Mann DPA Border fence between Hungary and Serbia. […]
Why not apply international law?
Oct 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL While the Arab world is deep in unrest, Israel is insidiously working to implant more settlements in the West Bank, which Israel occupied in […]
Donald Trump’s air attack on Syria may have been unlawful – but nobody seems to have noticed
International law is degraded when a breach of the UN charter is declared ‘illegal but legitimate’. The rule of law requires a straightforward answer Geoffrey Robertson 22 hours ago Vladimir Putin and Jeremy Corbyn are among the few to show concern that the US’s Tomahawk missile attack on a Syrian air base was […]
International law works best when applied consistently
Jun 02,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI What is the value of law? What are the consequences of applying some laws selectively, by punishing some law-breakers and ignoring others? How does or should respect for law play a role in how countries deal with each other? Several cases these […]
Gaza: how international law could work to punish war crimes
Source: The Guardian UK By Geoffrey Robertson The security council will be vetoed, but now that Palestine is a state there’s another route to justice For three weeks, the world has […]