The International Criminal Court is no different. It can be understood as a site of meta-conflict, where conflict over the nature of a given conflict plays out, and inevitably some particular narrative is endorsed and consolidated at the expense of others. What that narrative will be often ...
RAMALLAH, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Palestine has decided to complain to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said Wednesday. "Pompeo bears direct responsibility for the consequences for his dangerous declaration ...
RAMALLAH, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Palestine on Sunday said that it has referred Israel's latest settlement expansion plan to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah that ...
Press Release from the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding the issuance of warrants of arrest for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli 'Defense' Minister Yoav Gallant. Read More UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, in...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has requested clarifications from the Palestinian Authority regarding its decision to end all agreements with Israel in light of the latter’s decision to annex a large part of the occupied Palestinian territory, according to a Palestinian Foreign Ministry official...
Moving to global developments, there is even more cause for optimism. In December the International Criminal Court finally reached a landmark decision to call for an investigation of Israel for war crimes. Astatementissued by the court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, declared that her office...
Hundreds of people are seen attending a ceremony to raise the flag of the State of Palestine for the first time at U.N. Headquarters in New York, Sept. 30, 2015.Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Three years later, the International Criminal Court also accepted Palestine as a...
Member of Palestinian Executive Committee Saeb Erekat urged Monday for joining the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to Israeli government’s decision to apply Israeli law on West Bank settlements. Continue Reading Categories:Pictures| Tags:Gaza,Palestine,Turkey,UN,West Bank|Permalink. ...
–International law prohibits the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by persons under 18 years of age. Cuba condemns new Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba expresses its strongest condemnation of the criminal repression by ...
Since 2002, apartheid has been defined as a crime against humanity in international law. That definition is enshrined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which refers to the definition of apartheid in the 1973 United Nations International Convention on the Suppressi...