UN General Assembly adopts resolution requiring independent Gaza investigations
The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution giving Israel and Palestine three months to conduct independent investigations into possible war crimes committed during last winter's Gaza conflict . The General Assembly voted 114-18...
West Bank road segregation judgment, Israel Supreme Court, October 22, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here....
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday reiterated her support for the recommendations of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict . In a statement to...
Palestinian Authority president reverses position on UN rights council Gaza delay
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas proposed Monday that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) reconvene to vote to endorse the findings of a report by the UN Fact Finding Mission...
Obama administration should endorse Goldstone report at UN Security Council
Joe Stork : "President Obama and his team have another opportunity to do the right thing regarding the report of the UN Fact-Finding Commission on the Gaza Conflict...
UN Security Council to discuss Gaza conflict report in rescheduled meeting
The UN Security Council agreed Wednesday to reschedule October's meeting on the Middle East in order to discuss the final report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict . The meeting...
Palestinian Authority criticized for supporting UN rights council delay on Gaza resolution
Hamas leaders on Monday condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA) for supporting Friday's decision by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to delay a vote on resolution adopting the recommendations of the UN Fact Finding...
JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the Obama administration can break the sixty-year deadlock in negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians by supporting the establishment of a special moot court - a...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, a legal adviser with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and co-founder and Associate Editor of Global Brief, Canada's first international affairs magazine, says that in order for the ICC to...
Human Rights in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories, United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, September 15, 2009 [reporting that both Israel and Palestine committed war crimes that may amount to crimes against humanity during Israel's "Operation Cast...
