Search Results for: military commission

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a statement Tuesday condemning the record death toll of 53 journalists and members of the press during the Israel-Hamas War. CPJ has documented journalist deaths that have occured since October 7, when Hamas launched an attack on Israel followed by Israel declaring war on Hamas. The organization added [...]

The International Centre for Justice for Palestinians’ (ICJP) Canadian legal working group on Thursday issued Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Minister of National Revenue Marie-Claude Bibeau and Minister of Justice and Arif Virani with a notice of intention to seek the prosecution of Canadian politicians if they are complicit in alleged Israeli [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Tuesday saying that Israel is executing repeated and unlawful attacks on healthcare facilities, personnel and transport and that these attacks should be investigated as war crimes. HRW also expressed concern about Israel cutting off access to electricity, water and humanitarian aid, saying the country’s actions were “further [...]

The UK House of Commons rejected an amendment calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday as 24 US congressional representatives advocated for one in a letter to the Biden administration.  The proposed amendment, which would have modified the Commons’ reply to the King’s Speech, urged respect for international humanitarian law, while the [...]

Palestinian human rights organizations and others sued US President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd James Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken for allegedly violating the duty to prevent genocide and complicity in genocide in relation to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the case on Monday on behalf [...]

The concept of aggression in modern international law is rooted in a complex history of war and conflict. Defined as the use of armed force by one state against another in the absence of the justification of self-defense or the authorization of the United Nations, aggression has been a recurring issue on the global stage. [...]

The war in Sudan that broke out in April between the country’s armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has already had a devastating impact. Thousands have been killed. Millions have been displaced. And that’s to say nothing of the massive destruction of buildings and infrastructure. In parallel with the battles on the [...]

The families of nine civilian victims of Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC), their lawyer François Zimeray told the media last week. The complaint asks the ICC to prosecute Hamas leaders for genocide and war crimes and to issue an international arrest warrant for Hamas leadership. [...]

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being light years ahead of your time. If you are right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority, the truth [...]

Last month, the self-declared independent republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) lowered its flag, opting to dissolve all state institutions following a months-long blockade by Azerbaijani forces that brought about an acute humanitarian crisis among its predominantly ethnic Armenian population. The republic’s demise was the culmination of decades of tension and periods of conflict between Azerbaijan [...]