Year: 2024
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Dear Kamala Harris
31 October 2024 This afternoon I listened to a 3 hour committee meeting at the United Nations on UNWebTV on the responsibility of all member states to protect human rights and to prevent and to stop genocide. The title is “International legal responsibilities for preventing genocide, holding perpetrators of war crimes accountable, and for ending…
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A letter to Kamala Harris, 30-10-24
On 28 October 2024, South Africa filed its Memorial to the International Court of Justice, in its case on the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel). President Cyril Ramaphosa wrote the following statement here: “The filing of this Memorial…
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The Cairo “Compromise” on Abortion and its Consequences for Making Abortion Safe and Legal
by Marge Berer. Chapter 11, pp. 152-166, in: Reproductive Health & Human Rights: The Way Forward. Edited by Mindy Jane Roseman and Alice Miller. University of Pennsylvania Press. © 2009. ISBN 978-0-8122-4152-5. This book is a collection of papers that critically reflects on the previous 15 years of international efforts aimed at improving health, alleviating…
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SOLIDARITY REQUEST ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY FOR WOMEN IN GAZA!
From Aseel Baidoun, Medical Aid for Palestinians Today is International Women’s Day. This year, it falls almost exactly five months after Israel began its indiscriminate bombardment and total siege of Gaza. In that time, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s military attacks. The majority of those killed are women and children. This…
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International Court of Justice hearing, 11-12 January 2024, on the issue of Israeli genocide against Gaza, brought to the Court by South Africa, on UN Web TV
Day 1: Presentation by South African legal experts on behalf of the South African government, 3 hours, 11 January 2024, https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3 Day 2: Presentation by Israeli legal experts on behalf of the Israeli government, 3 hours, 12 January 2024, https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c/k1c10lsjoq You can listen to both of these for some days after they were live. The…