Archivo de Etiquetas: East Jerusalem

Rule of Law and Areas of Limited Statehood Domestic and International Dimensions Edited by Linda Hamid, Research Fellow, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law, KU Leuven and Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global …

The Palestine Yearbook of International Law Online Volume 21 (2018): Issue 1 (Jun 2020) ISSN: 2211-6141 @brillpublishing @BrillPublishing/ The Palestine Yearbook of International Law Online is a well-established yearbook, which was previously published by the Al-Shaybani Society of International Law and Kluwer Law International. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers now publishes the …

Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) e Israel: Fiscalía anuncia apertura oficial de investigación por exacciones cometidas en territorios ocupados palestinos El pasado 20 de diciembre del 2019, la Oficina de la Fiscalía de la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) anunció oficialmente que, luego de estudiar la demanda presentada en el 2018 por …

Protection of civilians in Palestine: UN Security Council fails to adopt a resolution (due to US veto) Protection of civilians in Palestine: UN Security Council fails to adopt a resolution (due to US veto) On June 1st, the UN Security Council voted a draft resolution presented by Kuwait concerning the …

The transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem: the need of responses from international community The transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem: the need of responses from international community Nicolas Boeglin, Professor of Public International Law, Law Faculty, University of Costa Rica Picture taken from this press note of …

Prolonged Occupation or Illegal Occupant?   An unresolved question in international humanitarian law is whether an occupying power – whose authority as occupant may have initially been lawful – can cross a bright red line into illegality because it is acting contrary to the fundamental tenets of international law dealing …

Did the Trump Administration’s Jerusalem Declaration Violate International Law? by David Hughes [David Hughes is a Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan, Law School and a PhD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.] On 6 December, President Trump signed a Proclamation recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital …

The Disappearing UN Report on Israeli “Apartheid” by Kevin Jon Heller Last week, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) sent shockwaves through the international community by issuing a report that — for the first time in UN history — claims Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to the crime …

Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016) and its Legal Repercussions Revisited Security Council 2334 (2016), adopted by the Security Council on December 23, 2016 with 14:0:1 votes, the United States abstaining, and dealing with the issue of Israel’s settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territory, and the broader issue of the …

La resolución 2334 del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas que condena colonización israelí: breve puesta en perspectiva Por primera vez desde el año 1980 (y por primera vez en los 8 años de la administración del actual Presidente Obama de Estados Unidos), el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas …

Palestine, UN Non-Member Observer Status and ICC Jurisdiction On 22 January 2009, the Palestinian Minister of Justice, on behalf of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), lodged a declaration recognizing the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (pictured left) ‘for the purpose of identifying, prosecuting and judging the authors and …

Status of Palestine in the United Nations Voting record              The General Assembly,            Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and stressing in this regard the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples,            Recalling its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 …