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  1. Observations on Palestine’s Inter-State Communication Against Israel under the CERD

    Introduction On April 2, 2014, the State of Palestine (Palestine) deposited its instrument of accession to the ... of the CERD, [2]  Palestine launched a 350-page inter-state communication (communication) against Israel, [3]  claiming that ... (2) all state parties that ratified the CERD have a legal responsibility to implement its provisions. The Extraterritorial ...

    10/16/2019 - 1:41pm

  2. Implementing the Genocide Convention at the Domestic Level: The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Act 2018

    ... has established the  Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect  and asserts that the obligation to prevent and ... erga omnes . The Court notes that the obligation each State thus has to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide is not ...

    10/08/2019 - 11:07am

  3. The Scope of the Right to Education

    ... the meaning of which must be understood in light of a state's underlying constitution and statutes and its people's beliefs, values, ... of Education (LESCE), the Council is charged with the responsibility for prescribing educational and training guidelines in ...

    06/20/2019 - 10:41am

  4. ITLOS Advisory Opinion: Coastal and Flag State Duties to Ensure Sustainable Fisheries Management

    ... several issues of general international law, including the responsibility of states and international organizations for IUU fishing. ... questions: What are the obligations of the flag State in cases where illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing ...

    04/23/2019 - 3:07pm

  5. Biodiversity in High Seas Areas: An Integrated Legal Approach

    ... are ocean waters beyond 200 nautical miles (nm) from any state’s coastal baseline (or 12 nm for states that have not claimed an ... the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in its advisory opinion on state responsibility for deep seabed mining in areas beyond national jurisdiction. ...

    04/23/2019 - 2:46pm

  6. Confronting ISIS’s War on Cultural Property

    ... from looting and destruction by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). As a preliminary matter, states generally agree ... violations for which it establishes individual criminal responsibility, as well as certain "other" violations that are to be ...

    04/22/2019 - 3:18pm

  7. Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping: Can the General Assembly Unite Against Impunity of Military Peacekeepers?

    ... of the General Assembly (C-34)—delegated with a wide responsibility for peacekeeping affairs and currently composed of more than 150 ... Foreign Relations Comm., to John Kerry, U.S. Sec’y of State (Oct. 21, 2015), http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/102115 ...

    04/22/2019 - 11:50am

  8. The UN International Law Commission Progresses Towards a New Global Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity

    ... needed for the prosecution of atrocity crimes across state borders. The International Law Commission included the topic of a ... states to criminalize the offense, provide for command responsibility, eliminate the defense of superior orders, abolish any statute ...

    04/22/2019 - 11:50am

  9. The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals: A Unique Model and Some of Its Distinctive Challenges

    ... of the ICTR in December 2015, the Mechanism has assumed responsibility for all residual ICTR matters, including the management of the ... to serve away from the MICT official seats—where Host State Agreements explicitly protect their immunities and privileges—could ...

    04/22/2019 - 11:49am

  10. The U.S. Airstrike After the Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria: National Interest, Humanitarian Intervention, or Enforcement Against War Crimes?

    ... it is crucial that clear justifications be offered by the state carrying out a military intervention, and that such justifications be ... Assad trägt alleinige Verantwortung [ Assad Bears Sole Responsibility ], Die Bundeskanzlerin [The Chancellor] (Apr. 7, 2017), ...

    04/22/2019 - 11:49am